Paul is largely a comedy director, and the film has been described as “comedic and thrilling” in every summary I’ve seen so far, which seems like a really good sign the comedic element has always been the series’s great strength (along with the characters) and when Soman tried to make the second series grittier and more serious, it kinda tripped over the lingering comedic strand and made it a bit messy. The majority of the original production team at Universal have followed the project over to Netflix, which suggests dedication and genuine interest and faith in it. But there are several things which have made me look on it with more favour recently. I was anticipating some rushed, low-budget, low-effort gritty thing that was generally disappointing.

The director was switched from Patricia Riggen (mexican woman) to Paul Feig (…old white man, a lovely one but one nonetheless) and Netflix have been kind of infamous for shitty reboots/adaptations of stuff as of late.

When I found out Universal had given up the rights to Netflix, my expectations were initially low. I was talking to a group chat about this last night, actually!

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