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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Haven't watched yet, but does this show have that [b]signature vaudevillian patter[/b] that all of ASP's shows have?  If so, I'll skip it.  Can't stand that kind of dialogue.[/quote]

NP. I think the problem with this show is that one, most ballet-centric shows maintain a serious undertone--sort of the perils of the ballet world, the competition, the damage to the bodies, the starving, the kids finding themselves in, generally, NYC. Etoile (at least the first episode, which was all I could get through) doesn't seem to know what it wants to be. It has the "serious" problems of the ballet world, but interspersed with that ASP "vaudevillian patter" as you call it, and each time it happens if feels jarring.

Luke Kirby seems ridiculous. I think he would be great if he played the part seriously and realistically. Instead, he seems almost like a caricature. I loved David Haig in Killing Eve, and here he is playing a more flamboyant version of the Killing Eve character. But in Killing Eve, when they had sides of humor, it was almost tension relief, not (as here imo) we don't know what we want to or should be as a show.

I wanted to like it. I enjoy a lot of the ballet world shows. And I really liked Gilmore Girls back in the day.  [/quote]

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