Give it a chance if it doesn't suit you in the pilot: it takes a lot of tropes that can be pretty worrying to a sitcom viewer (e.g. a dude with a crush on a Cool Lady who is Not Interested; a young buck with authority issues vs. By the Book boss) and... it takes those tropes and really does good things with them. Some of them it clearly wrongfoots very, very early on (in the pilot itself), and some of them take some time to really trust the show about (e.g. it takes a season or two for the dude with the crush to ease off, but he does and has since become happily married).
But it has consistently gotten better with time, not worse. It's by the same gentleman who does The Good Place, with a similarly diverse core cast (two black men, two white men, two Latina women, one white woman; at least one white man is heavily coded Jewish; two queer people, one who outs themself early on and one much later). And it is really good about showing men engaging in emotional work as work, work that needs to be learned, and helping each other (and showing women helping each other, too--the show passes the Bechdel flawlessly), and showing different people with different strengths.
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Date: 2019-01-01 12:40 am (UTC)But it has consistently gotten better with time, not worse. It's by the same gentleman who does The Good Place, with a similarly diverse core cast (two black men, two white men, two Latina women, one white woman; at least one white man is heavily coded Jewish; two queer people, one who outs themself early on and one much later). And it is really good about showing men engaging in emotional work as work, work that needs to be learned, and helping each other (and showing women helping each other, too--the show passes the Bechdel flawlessly), and showing different people with different strengths.
I LOVE IT VERY MUCH.