What a crashing disappointment. As I wrote at some length last year (here and here) while uneven the first season of Popular was on occasion very funny. Very very. High school dramedy at its campy and conniving extreme. But just in case you feel like trying out season 2 on dvd as well - STOP!!!!! It's positively dreadful. The good moments can be counted on one hand (Mike Damus as Clarence, Mary Cherry lip-synching "Rock Me Amadeus" in a Bob Mackie gown that literally lights up the room, most everything involving Emory Dick and his sisters, a character named Helacious), and the bad moments are legion. In season 2 the blondes versus the browns fights end, and pretty much every week is a very special episode - leukemia, addiction, teen marriage, whatever. And given that the Popular universe is already well-established as being not remotely rooted in reality - the awfulness of serious would-be drama done in conventional ways in that setting is ... well, awful. Don't put yourself through it. Watch and laugh at the funny parts of season 1 and don't worry about where the writers and producers took the characters from there.
Posted by armand at April 30, 2005 11:14 AM | TrackBack | Posted to Culture