Damages Begins to Disappoint

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Clarissa

May 27, 2015

So we’ve started watching Damages and I’m already disappointed. Famous lawyers are running around bars and weddings begging some two-bit dime-a-dozen job candidate to come work for them?

Unless we discover very soon that she is about to inherit an enormous fortune or something I will not be able to process this premise.

Also, a guy who proposes the day after his girlfriend gets a job with an enormous salary and doesn’t get the ring stuffed up his anal cavity?

Is this supposed to be fantasy genre?

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5 responses to “Damages Begins to Disappoint”

EQ84

May 28, 2015

This is indeed a totally normal reaction. Plenty of ludicrous things happen in this show (it’s about lawyers, what do you expect?) but this is not one of them.

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Ol

May 28, 2015

It is entertainment! It is some some sort of fantasy genre! What you describe is part of the fun.

But yes: that wedding proposal makes a poor scene. And the viewer never sees the chemistry in the couple.

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1. EQ84
  
  May 28, 2015
  
  I don’t think it’s such a bad scene. Rose Byrne plays a very stupid and gullible character. I mean, what kind of person would think it’s normal for a perspective employee to show up at a personal event like that? And to offer her a job based on what, her gumption? It’s supposed to be a weird and uncomfortable interaction.
  
  But I agree that this show is just meant to be entertaining. It’s not an exceptionally well-crafted drama or anything. It’s just fun 🙂
  
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2. Clarissa
  
  May 28, 2015
  
  It seems like the boyfriend will be killed. That reconciles me with the show for the moment.
  
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Walden

July 1, 2015

Watch “Borgen”. Danish from MHz Network (dist.), 3 seasons. The rise and rise of the first woman as Denmark’s PM. Or “The Bridge” Danish and/or US. A “who’s body” mystery. The lead detective has Asperger’s Syndrome. (I thought the Danes got the syndrome better than the US.) I thought “Damages” was pretty well done. But it’s an American production which assumes a peculiar American desire for glam or action or … Once you get “into” Damages start thinking about “Suits”. You’ll remember the “simplicity” of Damages. BUT they are watchable. Just a suggestion.

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