Is this Reality TV?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Party Down
defucter — 15 years ago(March 29, 2011 08:58 PM)
They've run out of all ideas in Hollywoodeven the bad onesso now they make a show about all those beautiful people in LA who serve you coffee and flip your burgers. Next!
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moviequeen123 — 15 years ago(March 30, 2011 09:42 AM)
Although you do have a point of Hollywood running out of decent ideas (as I type this, there are ads for the Tron sequel on the margins of the page), but I honestly don't recall a show similar to this in recent years.
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Soia311 — 14 years ago(May 19, 2011 10:36 PM)
I thought the show was pretty unique.
It's funny in it's own way and nothing about it reminds me of something I've seen and liked before. If you're going to make this complaint, put it on the Parks and Rec board. The blatant copycat show that actually got it's hands on Party Down's lead character.
If it wasn't for the Office 2, we might still have Party Down right now. -
salmon_lox — 14 years ago(December 04, 2011 06:03 PM)
hey, don't knock "parks and recreation" as "the office 2". give it a chance beyond the first season- it really really improves. and by the time adam scott appears, the show is firing on all cylinders and is one of the best comedies on tv.
trust me, as a fan of the show, i admit the first season was terrible and too much like "the office". but it really hits its stride in the next season, and only goes up from there -
goodfellas30 — 14 years ago(January 10, 2012 03:03 PM)
I enjoy Parks & Rec and think that it's one of the funniest shows on TV but there is no denying that it's premise is a direct copy of The Office. It's by the same people so there's always going to be similarities but I feel like they didn't even try to go in a new direction.
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dccheever — 14 years ago(February 12, 2012 05:48 AM)
What it lacks in "originality" it makes up in execution. Although I'm getting a little tired of Aziz Ansari (Tom Haverford.) I must admit, I liked his character in the beginning and was a fan of his "Raaaaaaandy" act off the show because it mocked stand up comedians who's act consists of that style, but he's become a complete characterchure of Randy on the show now. He was way more subtle before.
The comedy is still damn good. Poehler is genius as Knope. Offerman as Swanson (he still uses some subtlety unlike Ansari with Haverford.) Pratt's always been good with Andy, actually everyone other than Ansari is still killing it. Plaza as April is hit and miss sometimes though, but she's easy on the eyes and isn't as annoying as Ansari can get.
But remember this, "There's nothing new under the sun, It's not what you do but how it's done."
Basically, nothing is original, so all this, "yeah this show is unique, this show isn't" stuff is just dumb because everything has already been thought of or done or executed. "The Office" is just a copy of the British "The Office" for god's sake. Before that there's been mockumentaries and shows about people in an Office. So honestly, that argument is fruitless because it's all about execution in the long run. If the writing is good, and the acting uses it to jump off the screen then nothing else matters.
Maybe I'm too deep into the art of it though, I can see how someone who doesn't appreciate the execution can think, "This is a ripoff!" -
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NamedFabio — 12 years ago(July 31, 2013 07:54 AM)
Parks and Rec definitely stands on its own after season 1. I even enjoy some of season 1 though. And Adam left because he knew Party Down didn't have a chance, sadly. I think it is one of the funniest comedies of all time. But hopefully we get a movie.
I'm keepin' my fingers crossed for that.