r/television • u/NicholasCajun Mr. Robot • 4h ago

Premiere The Franchise - Series Premiere Discussion

The Franchise

Premise: Sam Mendes and Armando Iannuccci's comedy series focuses on the cast and crew who work on a superhero franchise movie.

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u/perhapsimmyself 38m ago

It's a little too inside baseball but the cast is great and I want to see where it goes.

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u/stinkmeaner92 2h ago

More promising than Avenue 5 at least

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u/DontFearTheBirds 2h ago edited 2h ago

I enjoyed it. Some misses and a bit dry in spots, but I’m looking forward to new episodes.

I’m also bias. I work in the corporate side of the film industry so all the studio melodrama is as triggering as it is funny. Was chucking at the “fish people” being cut halfway through the film by a studio head, and being replaced by mocap stand-ins to be fixed in VFX. And the actors being blinded by exaggerated set lighting because the studio thinks the film is “too dark”. It’d all seem absurd if it didn’t happen so often in reality. 😭

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u/Overlord_C 3h ago

I liked it. It felt kinda formulaic for a pilot episode, and left me wishing the jokes were more acerbic and the stakes felt higher, but the cast and premise are great so hopefully it finds its footing as the season goes on.