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Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life (2016)
Cooper Barrett hurts to watch, because it is almost good
Cooper Barrett does nothing new in the 2010s of single-camera 20- something to 30-something bachelor sitcoms. It's venturing in a sea of canceled shows, finished shows and currently airing shows that have more to offer than it.
Cooper Barrett represents a skeleton of a great show where the writing just isn't good enough. The show could really use some sharper, funnier writing. The jokes aren't hitting that well consistently, the show is so close to being funny, because the style of comedy in this show is right up my alley. The cast is fine, but they lack the pizazz, the flare and true symmetry of a cast from let's say, New Girl or Don't Trust the B----, and Don't Trust the B- --- is not that much better than Cooper but what it has is sharper timing on jokes and better delivery.
Cooper Barrett himself is probably the lowest point of the show, and that's not terrible since he's just dull and not intolerable, however he seems like a Nickelodeon sitcom teen grown up and given his own show, he's generic in the sense that he ends up attracting most of the attractive side characters in the show and he looks good, but his interests and personality is nothing unique enough to write home about.
Cooper Barrett is just enjoyable enough for me to finish watching the first season and I'm genuinely curious if the show falling short was just due to the show not having enough time to truly find it's groove or if the cast/writing wasn't up to par.
Mr. Robot: eps2.0_unm4sk-pt1.tc (2016)
Elliot tries to better himself in season 2
Now that Mr. Robot has been revealed, the start of the second season brings Elliot's imaginary father back into the fold. It's understandable since he's currently trying to ignore or defeat his alter ego instead of cooperating with him like in previous seasons. Mr. Robot has been become a huge nuisance, to the viewer and to Elliot more importantly. I start to empathize with Elliot since I too, am annoyed of Mr. Robot putting his nose in Elliot's affairs.
It's interesting to see Elliot's hallucinations of Mr. Robot killing people to not be real. As we saw before, Mr. Robot's actions were actually Elliot's actions. Instead, he's just hallucinating horrific things that he's not actually doing himself.
How Elliot will defeat Mr. Robot throughout the rest of season 2 is what's compelling me to watch the rest of the show. Also note that Elliot no longer trusts the person he's talking to (us), how will we regain his trust?