“Love That for You,” is Showtime’s new comedy.
The series is airing on Showtime’s streaming app on Friday, April 29 at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT. With its premiere on Showtime on Sunday, May 1 at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT.
“Love That for You” Character Unreal Than Real
With “Saturday Night Live” Vanessa Bayer, starring and co-created “I Love That for You” uses the weapon of central presence as the vision of life. As a series, it makes use of petty humiliations, easily created by making oneself the butt of the joke.
Although, everything faced by Bayer’s character at work seems unreal than real. Also, the show seems to lack the look and texture of actual office life or a recognized media environment.
According to what we feel is that the series want to show the character study. Cause, it’s what it’s best at.
Plot Review And Concept
Bayer stars as Joanna Gold, who transforms from hawking samples at Costco to an on-air personality with just one lucky audition. Joanna is a cancer patient and has survived it through her childhood. Due to this, she has lived a cosseted life. With which her strangeness getting the time to flourish in the absence of friends.
In addition, to feeling a special bond with a home-shopping superstar (Molly Shannon). The definition of an idol, building her ambitions around her. Joanna can be described as a sweet-natured dissembler. A person who believes in her inborn specialness. Although, she is willing to become manipulative if her specialness isn’t recognized.
That’s a character but doesn’t fit quite well with a concept. In addition, whenever we got out of the personal space of Joanna’s head. Like when she shares a scene with more than one person, the scene becomes less about her weirdness rather than about the group dynamic. Making the ries overall be suffering.
American Kind Of Cinderella Story
The simultaneous glamour and intimacy provided by home shopping make it into a peculiarly American kind of Cinderella story. The show, although fails to convince, us that Joanna could even end up getting hired. Forget about, the fact that with no connections or experience.
But then because “I Love That for You” doesn’t build off her as working. Joanna seems a character only Introduced to become the recipient of abuse from everyone around her. The humiliations flatly state the fact of her doing a bad job.
In addition, they tend to arise from colleagues for the undermining of her stunningly obvious ways. It’s as if every conversation only comes to the point of nuance leached.
But, simply said it’s better to watch Bayer’s suffering. In addition, physical comedy is added for a brief moment. When at the end of the meeting, the box on which Bayer sits spontaneously collapses.
Anyway, one thing is for sure, for “I Love That for You” to succeed. It would be essential to believe in Joanna’s story, at the same time, root for her.
Although, nothing about this show on its terms feels real. Having no ideas about what those terms even are. For the rooting part, it would be interesting to see if some very talented people will either turn this show around.
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