Fast talking on new TV shows

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Veep and Mrs. Maisel too. They sound smarter and can pile more jokes per minute.

I think it's irritating.

i either heard or read it on here that someone uses closed captioning w/VEEP to catch all the jokes. i agree they are super fast!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Veep and Mrs. Maisel too. They sound smarter and can pile more jokes per minute.

I think it's irritating.

i either heard or read it on here that someone uses closed captioning w/VEEP to catch all the jokes. i agree they are super fast!

I do it on all the shows I watch now. Learned the tip from Gretchen Rubin on the happiness project podcast.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It started with Scandal.

This

No it didn’t. The west wing and Gilmore girls did it years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is why I can never get into West Wing, despite many attempts. I just lose too much in the back and forth. It wasn’t bothersome to me in GG, because it was mostly just fun funny banter so if you missed bits, it really didn’t matter.
To me, Scandal speeches were long and drawn out and added added emphasis on every syllable of every word. Drove me nuts.

Closed captioning doesn’t solve the problem for West Wing. They talk faster than words can appear on the screen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I felt that way about Gilmore girls. It seemed so unnatural.

I'm a NYer, so Six on Blossom and Gilmore Girls were very comfortable for me. I feel like everyone else is speaking as slowly as they do in the South.

[Anonymous]

This is why I have close-captioning turned on at all times now. Otherwise I'd miss a lot of what they're saying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why I can never get into West Wing, despite many attempts. I just lose too much in the back and forth. It wasn’t bothersome to me in GG, because it was mostly just fun funny banter so if you missed bits, it really didn’t matter.
To me, Scandal speeches were long and drawn out and added added emphasis on every syllable of every word. Drove me nuts.

Closed captioning doesn’t solve the problem for West Wing. They talk faster than words can appear on the screen.

that's an issue related to your provider, or your signal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why I can never get into West Wing, despite many attempts. I just lose too much in the back and forth. It wasn’t bothersome to me in GG, because it was mostly just fun funny banter so if you missed bits, it really didn’t matter.
To me, Scandal speeches were long and drawn out and added added emphasis on every syllable of every word. Drove me nuts.

Closed captioning doesn’t solve the problem for West Wing. They talk faster than words can appear on the screen.

that's an issue related to your provider, or your signal.

Well they talk faster than I can read.

[Anonymous]

Ha. Are you my DH? He hates Mrs. Maisel (as he hated Gilmore Girls) because of the fast talking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Omg Gilmore girls

Why do they talk like that

The style of dialogue is based on screwball comedies of the 1930s & 40s. I’m a huge fan of the Thin Man movies, and the speech patterns are very similar.

Came here to say this--watch "His Girl Friday." (Thanks, Film History 101.)

That said, I have to be in a certain mood to watch this type of dialogue. I like both GG & MMM, but had to turn off MMM last week because the pace was so irritating to me. It's hard to have on in the background--you really have to focus or you miss stuff.

[Anonymous]

It's why I hated Gilmore girls too.

Mrs. Maisel is fast, and I don't catch everything, but it's also more similar to screwball comedies too.

[Anonymous]

Unbreakable Kimmy is like this too. But yes, I first remember noticing it with Gilmore Girls but I swear that since then it's become even faster.

On one hand I do appreciate the wit of today's TV show writing, but the frantic, unnatural back and forth is off-putting. It's not only unnatural and therefore unrelatable, but it's also just exhausting at times trying to keep up.

But like so many things now, subtlety has been lost.

[Anonymous]

It started way back with, Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988 movie). It's been getting increasingly worse ever since. Movies prior to that time have a much different feel.

[Anonymous]

I almost don’t want to watch the Goldbergs because of how fast the dialogue, situations and everything else in the show is way too fast. It almost gives me anxiety. I quit watching it for a while and gave it another chance. But it didn’t change

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It started with Scandal.

This

Way before Scandal. West Wing and Gilmore Girls did it.