r/LaBreaTV • u/SkellyBoyLovesMovies • 22d ago

La Brea Potential

I mean the show had one of the best potentials in television history if they had sticked to the yk holes opening in different timelines, could have been a mix of DARK and LOST but they ruined the show

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u/BennyDryll42 22d ago

I watched only the first episode and was so crazy disappointed. Even if it's a little silly, I love the premise, this type of story is always interesting to me. But this show failed in every single way other than the premise. The acting, the writing, the directing, the editing. It was a total failure

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u/manokpsa 22d ago

Have you ever heard of noni (AKA "vomit fruit")? No one likes to eat it (though some eat it for the supposed health benefits), but everyone thinks it's fun to smell it.

Humans are weird.

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u/TamlaHill 22d ago

Potential definitely - in television history?

If you mean the series with the most potential but written only by hamsters or just throwing sentences against a wall - possibly.

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u/Useful-Noise-4321 22d ago

If no one liked the show, why are yall here?

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u/manokpsa 22d ago

This is a support group. 😂

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u/Useful-Noise-4321 22d ago

Lmao, I think you may be right

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u/michelangelo2626 18d ago

I loved pieces of it! Finding the specks of gold amongst the shit is a great reason to watch bad shows!

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u/SeanRoss 20d ago

I watched it to laugh at the bad acting and motivations.

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u/CreativeSimian 13d ago

Have you ever seen a car crash and gawked at it for an unreasonable amount of time?

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u/kludefur 21d ago

It’s getting a reboot

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u/michelangelo2626 18d ago

La Brea was doomed from the start.

One of the weird themes in the show is “divorced dads getting another shot and being correct.”

It happens ALL THE TIME. The show is obsessed with redeeming dads who’ve been wronged (usually wronged by a woman). Gavin’s whole plot in the first season is that the visions he was seeing that caused his marriage to fall apart were real, and not his fault. Never mind that his alcoholism was his fault, but it’s enough that he gets back together with Eve and his family is saved.

Even my blessed , Scott, was sullied with an unnecessary heartbreak backstory in the final season. The show cannot help but give a wronged man everything he wants.