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Cremains of the Day
- To kill off background character, nobody cares? If this in order to get rid of overproduced animated cells (sorry for such rude saying, if smth) and replace with fresh character - sure, why not. But the point is the story with Moe's tavern barflies. Another their shared adventure, friendship trial
with obvious answer, whether it dies or NOT, drunk jokes blah blah blah. I'm not keen on it. It is a Family Guy-ish premise. As promotion shows, the episode to rely on gags. Can't say Larry
is was so beloved, centric within gang character
like Chip Devis. I am not into the story, even if all it can deliver is weird funny jokes and "another their shared adventure blah blah blah".
2,5/5. That's generously for such plot.
2 The biggest possible problem relates again to the plot. The Simpsons rarely are good with such dark, funeral stories. Maybe it's personal, but I don't apricate, when over grief story (even imaginary, even over Larry) they do much of fun, including that late hype with "who's dying?".
3. The writer is
John Frink, whose recent efforts with "co-runner" method
(not to mention forgotten fact that he is himself a full showrunner) were truly great in respective seasons -
«Bartless» and
«Pixelated and Afraid». A stumbling block here is
Tim Long. He is the worst showrunner so far. And he can turn Frink's abilities into 180 degrees (well, ok into 90 degrees as there were said Frink is writer-EP) and can push him back to
«Go Big or Go Homer». The director is unknown, but taking that emergency "the more capable first", let's just for experiment assume, it's
Timothy Bailey (moreover, vibes from
«The Last Barfighter» found in the plot
(that's coincidence).
4. Promotional stuff I mentioned several times is bad this time. It reveals the story to be weak, consists of fantasies, unfunny gags and doesn't show at all the emotional part the story needs. That recent Matt Selman's promotion on "who's die" if not to be parody on
«Alone Again, Natura-Diddily» as I read, wouldn't be much.
SO, The only bright is good writer (and possible good director). The story to be poor, the jokes to be unfunny. However, as we already got trusted friendship plots, there IS hidden potential.
3,5 to 3 (OK-to-decent)
) plot could be fun. Sports haven't always been used well in Simpsons (boys of bummer) but there's comedy potential if they don't go too far. I liked do the wrong thing and it's satire on blue collar sports, why not give soccer some focus?
