I found another decent episode. Funny, because the show is literally making fun of themselves.
A producer gets the idea to make a show called "Rescue Bay," about lifeguards after seeing some rescues on the beach and Garner capturing a criminal. He pictures babes and actions.
First of all, I always find it funny when any TV show does a show about movies/filmmakers/actors. The characters in the show often look down on the whole process, the actors, and the accuracy. To me, this is hilarious because they are basically talking about themselves.
Here it seems they acknowledge that Baywatch is about hot babes and guys, in swimwear and crazy action with not the greatest acting or stories. They get this big muscled-bound foreign Schwarzenegger-like guy to play a character who is based on Mitch. CJ gets picked to play Stephanie Holden over actual Stephanie, who wanted to play herself. All because she is blonde and very curvaceous. Matt and Summer are played by pretty glam soap opera characters. Billy Warlock, Yasmine Bleeth, and John Allen Nelson are a few actors who came from soap operas. I believe there were many more as regs, recurring, and guests.
There are a few jokes about network television and syndication. Notable, because after the first season, NBC had cancelled Baywatch and then the show continued in syndication and became a huge hit.
Everything about the TV show that the procedure wants to make is exaggerated a little more than the show already exaggerates itself. For example, Garner's character is over-the-top in personality and policing. It's funny.
Anyway, I appreciate an episode like this that admits that even they get it and know what people say about them. 7/10.
A producer gets the idea to make a show called "Rescue Bay," about lifeguards after seeing some rescues on the beach and Garner capturing a criminal. He pictures babes and actions.
First of all, I always find it funny when any TV show does a show about movies/filmmakers/actors. The characters in the show often look down on the whole process, the actors, and the accuracy. To me, this is hilarious because they are basically talking about themselves.
Here it seems they acknowledge that Baywatch is about hot babes and guys, in swimwear and crazy action with not the greatest acting or stories. They get this big muscled-bound foreign Schwarzenegger-like guy to play a character who is based on Mitch. CJ gets picked to play Stephanie Holden over actual Stephanie, who wanted to play herself. All because she is blonde and very curvaceous. Matt and Summer are played by pretty glam soap opera characters. Billy Warlock, Yasmine Bleeth, and John Allen Nelson are a few actors who came from soap operas. I believe there were many more as regs, recurring, and guests.
There are a few jokes about network television and syndication. Notable, because after the first season, NBC had cancelled Baywatch and then the show continued in syndication and became a huge hit.
Everything about the TV show that the procedure wants to make is exaggerated a little more than the show already exaggerates itself. For example, Garner's character is over-the-top in personality and policing. It's funny.
Anyway, I appreciate an episode like this that admits that even they get it and know what people say about them. 7/10.