jesse-greathouse

So far I'm really enjoying this series: Like a Dragon. The characters are charming and they have very interesting dispositions and motivations. The action scenes are fun. The plot and story is pretty interesting albeit simple.

Yes its a bit corny, but much like it's main character, the show has a charisma that can't be denied. It sucks you in and makes you wonder where all of this is going.

The show is based on a game series by Sega. I have played one of the games but I don't know enough about the series as a whole to say whether the show is faithful to the games in story. To me it does capture the essence of what the game was about, but it doesn't seem to follow the story of the game that I played.

After seeing the original British Office, and the American Office, for over a decade, it's hard to tell if I've become immune to this formula, or if this rendition is just not all that charming.

It gets off to a slow start, but by episode 4 or 5 you may find yourself chuckling occasionally. The characters are analogous to characters from previous renditions and it really tries hard to stick to the same formula that you've already seen. There does not seem to be much effort into breaking new ground or surprising us with new character archetypes or story lines. Despite being a carbon copy of previous renditions, the players seem to have a bit less charisma than their analogs, and so you'll find yourself not being drawn in like you did when you saw the Office the first time.

To sum up, it's the same Office you've already seen before, being played by new people. The characters. The stories and gags are almost identical to that which you've already seen. There is nothing fresh or new to entice people to watch this. If you simply want more of the same, or you want to turn your brain off and have very few chuckles, it may be worth a watch.

NBC doesn't produce good shows, rather they produce cheap imitations of good shows in a desperate attempt to get you to subscribe to Peacock. Teacup is just the latest in a list of shows that NBC has made to entice you to subscribe to their dogwater tier streaming service.

The show isn't bad as much as it is an uninspired, paint-by-numbers, copy of better shows that we've all seen before. It's intentional, they know you like the shows it emulates and tries to entice you with familiar flavor before you realize it's a knock off. Events transpire which might stand out as interesting, but the audience is acutely aware that the genre is that of teasing intreague from the morbidly strange. If this is your genre, and your audience has seen this before, Teacup needs to come with more in order to keep us hooked. The question is, if you like this, why not just watch the originals that did it better?