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[Important: I do not want to yuck anyone's yum, as it were, so I am going to keep my complaints about this show under a cut.]
So Mindy Kaling and Tracy Wigfield have put together a sort-of rom-com homage to 90s and 00s classics of the art in a 10-episode series (airing in the US on Hulu) called, yes, Four Weddings and a Funeral. The first four episodes dropped last week, and a new episode will be released every Wednesday for the next six weeks.
What's good about it? As with the Richard Curtis films which inspire it, the show is a love-letter to London and filmed on location -- but this is a much more diverse London, with the male romantic lead (or so it seems at this writing) a British Pakistani character named Kash Khan, played by Nikash Patel, and the female lead played by Nathalie Emmanuel, who identifies as Black in the script. The Khan family -- because we get the father and younger brother of Kash -- is Muslim, and their mosque is important in Episode 4; this is a cool kind of story we don't see in rom coms. Also, because the filming is in London, great British character actors show up in recurring roles. Most important to me are Alex Jennings who shows up in Episode 3 and is tipped to have an actual arc, and dear Tom Mison, playing a wealthy, alcoholic, sweetheart husband named Quentin.
Okay, that's what's good about it, and I can imagine that for someone who wants to see people like themselves in rom-coms, this is enough to be going on with. Couldn't argue with that.
( on the other hand, with spoiler for the titular funeral )
I am really torn about watching the next episodes because I found the first ones so unsatisfying. I probably will give it one more ep before disembarking, but we'll see. I could always just rewatch Good Omens. :)
What fun things are you watching?
So Mindy Kaling and Tracy Wigfield have put together a sort-of rom-com homage to 90s and 00s classics of the art in a 10-episode series (airing in the US on Hulu) called, yes, Four Weddings and a Funeral. The first four episodes dropped last week, and a new episode will be released every Wednesday for the next six weeks.
What's good about it? As with the Richard Curtis films which inspire it, the show is a love-letter to London and filmed on location -- but this is a much more diverse London, with the male romantic lead (or so it seems at this writing) a British Pakistani character named Kash Khan, played by Nikash Patel, and the female lead played by Nathalie Emmanuel, who identifies as Black in the script. The Khan family -- because we get the father and younger brother of Kash -- is Muslim, and their mosque is important in Episode 4; this is a cool kind of story we don't see in rom coms. Also, because the filming is in London, great British character actors show up in recurring roles. Most important to me are Alex Jennings who shows up in Episode 3 and is tipped to have an actual arc, and dear Tom Mison, playing a wealthy, alcoholic, sweetheart husband named Quentin.
Okay, that's what's good about it, and I can imagine that for someone who wants to see people like themselves in rom-coms, this is enough to be going on with. Couldn't argue with that.
( on the other hand, with spoiler for the titular funeral )
I am really torn about watching the next episodes because I found the first ones so unsatisfying. I probably will give it one more ep before disembarking, but we'll see. I could always just rewatch Good Omens. :)
What fun things are you watching?
