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Is this just US (since Hulu is only available within America) or has any other broadcaster picked this up other than the one-off showing at TIFF? 68.146.52.234 (talk) 13:32, 31 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
I've just seen the episode "Venus" and it credits Tommy Dewey and Michaela Watkins as writers. Unfortunately I don't have any other sources to support that, except maybe this --Ihaveacatonmydesk (talk) 22:06, 1 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Is this a genre now, or a thing, or something?[edit]
I've noticed this trend in TV series: There's a concept for a pilot, rather like a short story, that's intriguing enough to get produced and picked up on the assumption the writers can do more with it. But once it's a series, it's like watching people try to stretch a short story into a novel by simply adding more pages to it. The characters wander around, spending great gobs of time expositing—as though the producers felt their only obligation was to provide an idea, then took their money and flew off to sit on a beach somewhere.
More characters are introduced, but they have no more to say or do than the previous ones, and they take turns expositing too. It has a kind of hypnotic effect, because you can't believe anything so protractedly vapid, lazy, monotonous, self-indulgent, and just plain mediocre can get so much attention—unless human population has grown enough to provide a certain class of viewers who don't care what a show's about, or if it's about anything, as long as they have such rambling, inchoate "content" to sit in front of so they needn't think about how pointless and unremarkable their own lives may be.
I just wondered if this meandering, arc-less story-with-no-story style had become well established enough to give it a name and characterize it more formally, so we could create an article about it to which we could link series like this one. It'd save so much time. ("Casual is a nouveau-whatever television series about [add whatever could pass as a synopsis here]." Boom—you're done.)
I also can't help finding the title ironic, considering that "casual" can mean "feeling or showing little concern" or "done without serious intent of commitment". That'd certainly describe the writing. But I digress, probably. I'm not sure. Do I? Or shall I wait and ramble on about that in a different restaurant, with someone else with whom I may or may not have sex, before I going on to do a bunch of other aimless, carefully-documented stuff? – AndyFielding (talk) 19:26, 9 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
"going on" = "go on". Sorry, but for some reason WP's mobile Talk editor doesn't let us actually, you know, edit. Even though it's an editor. Technically. Sort of. – AndyFielding (talk) 19:30, 9 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, I'm back, and here to say I was wrong. It's a much better show than I realized. I'd just hit a range of eps (end of Season 2, start of 3) that gave me the distinct feeling it had been left to coast along on its own momentum. If this happens to you, give it another chance—and hold off on posting about how much you dislike it. – AndyFielding (talk) 05:53, 13 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
