Like I said upthread, it's a Marvel show for people who dont like Marvel or superheroes. It's for that A24 crowd, the contempt for the genre is fully in some of the responses here. Yes, there are room for different stories in the MCU, but, for me at least, if the same story can be told in the real world with the bare minimum of the things that are part of the genre, why did it need to be part of the genre? Same question we ask about what it means to be human in terms of transhumanism. How much of your humanity can be stripped away before you're no longer considered human or something else entirely for that matter?
The issue here for me isnt that it's a comedy drama about two actors that appeals to people who who are contemptuous of the supers genre. The issue is that there's almost NOTHING in this series for the people who DO enjoy the supers genre. You literally could have filed the names off, made Trevor an actor who had done something that caused him to be ostracized or "cancelled" (like Michael Richards) and kept Simon as someone who may have an ability or power and was hunted by "generic government agency" and it would literally be the same show.
No one is debating the perfomances, direction and pacing of the show. The craft is on full display. And the thing is we could have gotten a show with BOTH the acting and performances AND what most people expect from a "superhero" genre labeled show. But instead we really just got some "elitist", indie/A24 style, film bro appeasing tripe.
Doesn't change anything really. For me, this was not worth my time.
