The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window

[Anonymous]

I think the second time they showed the headstone it said, “In Heaven you can dance like no one is watching.”

[Anonymous]

Naked Gun = pretty "wet" humor. It's pretty spelled out for you.

Nothing wrong with that. A lot of people like that sort of thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the second time they showed the headstone it said, “In Heaven you can dance like no one is watching.”

Yes! Lol!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Naked Gun = pretty "wet" humor. It's pretty spelled out for you.

Nothing wrong with that. A lot of people like that sort of thing.

Stop with the wet and dry.

This show is not dry humor. British humor tends to be dry.

This show is staged as a drama with a dark plot, and the actors are playing it too straight. Leslie Nielsen/Naked Gun was brilliant at playing it straight while providing subtle clues with his emphasis on words. Bell is playing it too dramatic (at least in the first two episodes).

This could have been better with modest tweaks to the background music and strategic uses of paused language and camera shots.

It need not go full Naked Gun or SNL to achieve the right balance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Naked Gun = pretty "wet" humor. It's pretty spelled out for you.

Nothing wrong with that. A lot of people like that sort of thing.

Stop with the wet and dry.

This show is not dry humor. British humor tends to be dry.

This show is staged as a drama with a dark plot, and the actors are playing it too straight. Leslie Nielsen/Naked Gun was brilliant at playing it straight while providing subtle clues with his emphasis on words. Bell is playing it too dramatic (at least in the first two episodes).

This could have been better with modest tweaks to the background music and strategic uses of paused language and camera shots.

It need not go full Naked Gun or SNL to achieve the right balance.

Bell is great.
It’s a pacing/ music/ script/ angles issue- spot on with your assessment.

It finds a better groove after the first 2 episodes, and I hope there is a season 2.
I suspect those tweaks will will happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did anyone else notice the message on Elizabeth's headstone was different each time KB visited the grave?

Yes! Just binged the whole thing tonight with DD. I told her that, but she hadn’t noticed. Good parade of all those books/movies, especially The Woman in the Window.

The Woman on a Cruise!

I think this has real potential for Season 2 if they can tighten it up a little. I agree with whoever said it needs better editing and directing. This was a little too Desperate Housewives - the parody just didn't work in parts, but when they got it right it was funny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On episode 3 and ready to bail. No dark humor. Not to me anyway. Just bad writing and WTF with her rain phobia?

Same. I really hope it gets better. There have been a few funny moments, but it could have been so much more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Naked Gun = pretty "wet" humor. It's pretty spelled out for you.

Nothing wrong with that. A lot of people like that sort of thing.

Stop with the wet and dry.

This show is not dry humor. British humor tends to be dry.

This show is staged as a drama with a dark plot, and the actors are playing it too straight. Leslie Nielsen/Naked Gun was brilliant at playing it straight while providing subtle clues with his emphasis on words. Bell is playing it too dramatic (at least in the first two episodes).

This could have been better with modest tweaks to the background music and strategic uses of paused language and camera shots.

It need not go full Naked Gun or SNL to achieve the right balance.

That’s the point. Plus the over acting. Naked Gun was funny and CHEESY. Nothing about Naked Gun was subtle.

[Anonymous]

DP. I'm just sitting over here laughing at anything about Naked Gun being called "subtle."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DP. I'm just sitting over here laughing at anything about Naked Gun being called "subtle."

This series isn’t subtle, dry humor. They totally missed the boat by playing it too straight. People are literally watching the first episode without realizing it’s a parody.

Bell doesn’t really over-act, either. At least not in the first few episodes.

Re: naked gun - while it isn’t apples to apples, the point is that it takes other cues to prompt the laugh: emphasis of language, music, camera shots, etc. This series missed the mark. I feel like I need to hunt for the humor. Even the camera shots of the headstone move too quickly. Blink and you miss it.

[Anonymous]

Yes. You need to hunt for the humor because you don't see it. You need the extra cues.

Some people don't. Nothing wrong either way. But just as people shouldn't be dissing your appreciation of Naked Gun, it goes both ways.

Find the stuff you like, and stick with it. Don't blame other people for not needing glasses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. You need to hunt for the humor because you don't see it. You need the extra cues.

Some people don't. Nothing wrong either way. But just as people shouldn't be dissing your appreciation of Naked Gun, it goes both ways.

Find the stuff you like, and stick with it. Don't blame other people for not needing glasses.

Sigh. Whatever.

I’m a huge fan of humor and appreciate even the most obscure humor. To be clear: I see the humor. This series just missed the mark with poor direction.

I’m not saying it needed to be silly or over the top. Just better direction.

There’s a Netflix discussion group, and so many people don’t realize the series is a parody. That means the humor isn’t subtle; rather, the humor just isn’t actually funny.

[Anonymous]

Forget Naked Gun. The more appropriate comparison is Airplane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. You need to hunt for the humor because you don't see it. You need the extra cues.

Some people don't. Nothing wrong either way. But just as people shouldn't be dissing your appreciation of Naked Gun, it goes both ways.

Find the stuff you like, and stick with it. Don't blame other people for not needing glasses.

Sigh. Whatever.

I’m a huge fan of humor and appreciate even the most obscure humor. To be clear: I see the humor. This series just missed the mark with poor direction.

I’m not saying it needed to be silly or over the top. Just better direction.

There’s a Netflix discussion group, and so many people don’t realize the series is a parody. That means the humor isn’t subtle; rather, the humor just isn’t actually funny.

If you can’t realize that “The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window” is a parody based on that title alone, then welp…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. You need to hunt for the humor because you don't see it. You need the extra cues.

Some people don't. Nothing wrong either way. But just as people shouldn't be dissing your appreciation of Naked Gun, it goes both ways.

Find the stuff you like, and stick with it. Don't blame other people for not needing glasses.

Sigh. Whatever.

I’m a huge fan of humor and appreciate even the most obscure humor. To be clear: I see the humor. This series just missed the mark with poor direction.

I’m not saying it needed to be silly or over the top. Just better direction.

There’s a Netflix discussion group, and so many people don’t realize the series is a parody. That means the humor isn’t subtle; rather, the humor just isn’t actually funny.

It missed the mark for you. Plenty of other people get it. Move on to something that hits the mark more directly for you.