Tbh, the male gaze in this series is fucking atrocious. It’s not just about the surface work like, now we see men getting full frontal. But women are not just different fantasies serve on your platter: your beauty-pageant-queen, cheerleading, ice-princess, goth-dream-pixie-girl, tomboy-like females. They’re teenage girls for fuck’s sake.
Driven almost entirely by dialogue, full of Mankiewiczian wit, a portrayal of power struggle between the creative and the institutional. Is the lovable loser really a lost genius or is he just beating on a dead horse?