I only write this because I am so sick of people wanting everything to be a cop procedural or talent contests or something in a hospital. Shows can be just fun. I know I am in the minority here but just STFU and enjoy some mindless humor FFS! Look if you want some nonsense to laugh at for 30 minutes this is a show you will enjoy. If you need everything to be some sort of commentary on society or watching a 12 year old hypnotist make a dog act like a chicken then you probably won't dig this show.
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Auror256920 January 2018
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junkmailxx17 September 2018Funny and witty show. It's a shame it was cancelled after only one season. Would love to see Netflix pick it up and continue on with this series.
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Ed-Shullivan3 January 2018I give the series an 8 out of 10 rating with room to exceed my expectations.
Ever been to Vegas? Ever taken a red eye to Vegas? Well how about taken a bus to Vegas? Well for you naysayers, I think not. I am not saying that the pilot episode of LA to Vegas knocked my socks off, or hit it out of the ballpark, but there are a varied eclectic cast of characters that I see great potential in this comedy series.
Take Nicole (Olivia Macklin) for instance, she is a stripper who travels from LA to Vegas on a regular basis in an effort to recruit new strippers for the Vegas strip club she works at as she gets a bonus for every new girl she brings in.
Then there is the pilot Captain Dave (Dylan McDermott) who uses his position to pick up girls and bring them to his cockpit. A regular on this flight is a veteran gambler named Artem (Peter Stormare) who gambles by superstitions and will bet on anything including a young couples marriage vows. Captain Dave's co-pilot Alan (Amir Talai) who aspired to be a dancer (and apparently still does) seems to have more luck picking up the ladies than Captain Dave does.
The lead actress in the series is Kim Matula who plays stewardess Ronnie who hates her job as a puddle jumper flight attendant and aspires to become a Delta stewardess on international flights. Ronnie knows how to make her passengers happy even if she appears to be miserable doing it, as she states "I go on my gut". So she attempts to have sex in the plane's bathroom with a British passenger (Ed Weeks) but gets interrupted. Her peer steward is gay Bernard (Nathan Lee Graham). Bernard is very content in his job and tries to explain to Ronnie she is perfect as his peer stewardess. Bernard sees how easy it is for Ronnie to make their repeat passengers comfortable on their multiple flights to and from LA to Vegas.
The show is not about what happens in Vegas but what happens on the flights from LA to Vegas and from Vegas back to LA. So I say give this series a chance and watch a few more episodes and I am quite sure it will grow on us, just like the future multiple Golden Globe and Emmy winning series Seinfeld did after being bashed in the media continuously during its first flight (no pun intended). -
majormadmax26 January 2018With all the crap that's on the TV these days 'LA to Vegas' is a refreshing change! The characters are entertaining and as someone who flies quite often I can relate to them. The scenarios may be a bit over the top but historically that's what has always made good comedy (was 'Seinfeld' that realistic?). Honestly I can't say there is a better sitcom at the moment, which doesn't mean 'LA to Vegas' is great but compared to its competition it's at the top of the list.
So it isn't a home run right out of the box but as someone has also noted, the first season of 'Seinfeld' was pretty slow. 'LA to Vegas' has potential and has already shown great promise in its cast and scripts. It's balanced and even the over-the-top characters such as Captain Dave are easy to connect with.
I am glad to see three more episodes have already been order (for a total of 15), I hope Fox realizes what a hit they have and supports more seasons. "LA to Vegas' deserves a chance to prove itself! -
ITrifonov24 January 2018No idea why it has such a low rating.
Original jokes and nice acting.
I love captain Dave, well written and greatly played. -
SnoopyStyle3 June 2018It's the LA to Vegas route for discount Jackpot Airlines. Flight Attendant Ronnie is desperate to get on a better airline and travel the world. Bernard is the sassy gay flight attendant. Captain Dave (Dylan McDermott) is the drunken womanizing pilot and Alan is the co-pilot. Frequent flyers include gambler Artem, stripper Nichole, and British professor divorced parent Colin.
This is a fun bunch of characters. They're likeable individually and as a group. The premise is a little thin but the amiable actors make it work. It doesn't have the highest of aspirations but the fun group keeps the show going. It gets cancelled after one season. There are worst shows left on the network schedule. -
hithereh20 January 2018When I first saw the trailer for this show I knew I had something to look forward to each week. Captain Dave is the pilot my husband wishes he could be. Is it a realistic portrayal of the airline industry? Of course not. But it's close enough to home and that's exactly why it fits the bill. These characters do and say what we wish we could at their workplace in the sky, much like how how Michael and the cast from The Office do and say things that would never fly past HR in real life. Is every joke perfect? No, but enough of them make me belly laugh and turn to high five my husband while we shhhhh each other to pay attention. We've watched and rewatched the episodes to replay our favorite one-liners and while some of the jokes are Sophomoric that is exactly what I was hoping for from Will Ferrell. In a way, Captain Dave is a 2018 version of Captain Ron Burgandy and I couldn't be happier.
Surprisingly, I love that Captain Dave is not the main character. I have found myself enjoying the depth and flaws of Ronnie, the Lead Floght Attendant. I didn't expect the show to make her more than a sky waitress so kudos to the writers. I am also hoping to see a lot more of Bernard (loved him as Todd in Zoolander). His witty quips and impecoble timing are spot on and are probably some of the most true to life conversations I've overheard from my real life airline industry friends. Not to mention that Bernard has some of the best raised eyebrow expressions that speak for themselves.
Hoping this show gets wheels up for many more seasons. -
safenoe3 February 2022LA to Vegas had the potential to be a contender, to run for at least three or four seasons if the network just gave it a chance. Why are series like LA to Vegas cut off at the legs, just as it gains its momentum? The vagaries of TV programmers.
Maybe LA to Vegas can be rebooted please. -
afspleen1 April 2018Being an Airline Pilot myself, I can say I love how they cover all the satirical topics of our industry. But to me, it's all about Captain Dave. If he could have his own show, I'd watch it all day.
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Hammer-Rocks20 March 2018I really like this show, period!
But there are caveats when watching this.
1. This is pure entertainment and nothing more 2. This is fictional and over-styled life of frequent plane travelers and its crew between LA and Las Vegas 3. Actions done in this show will ever happen in real-life, or at least without severe consequences.
So if you like to escape the real world from time to time and be entertained, park your brain to the side, don't expect real world characters, and give this show a go.
You might just be surprised how much you'll enjoy this. -
As a airline employee I had high hopes for this show, sadly this show is a big let down.The jokes just don't do it for me and it must be mandatory now to have a gay character on any new television show. I could be wrong but I don't see this show getting past season 2.
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travisdpittman4 January 2018No pretentiousness, no deep thinking, no political correctness, just some good raunchy Married With Children style comedy.
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theredhairedcrow10 February 2022It only has one season but it was fun most of the time, and had some really zany situations that just made you shake your head in a good way. Made me think of several Atlanta to Chicago, Houston or Washington flights I had, particularly with the latter an announcement the captain was "indisposed" after we'd seen him lurching in.
I know Kim Matula as "Ronnie" was supposed to be the main character, and she was good, she was okay but its the supporting characters that really made it shine. Nathan Lee Graham as "Bernard" and Peter Stormare as "Artem" are just two great examples.
I hadn't watched anything with Dylan McDermott in it since the 90s or so, and had never thought of him as a comedic actor but he was great as the intense "komisch" captain. I really liked this show and wished there would have been a 2nd, 3rd or even 4th season if the writing was good. Maybe they thought there was only so much interest or material for the cast they had. -
Yiannis-T31 January 2018LA to Vegas is about the everyday's life of a pilot & the crew of an airlines company. i can't understand the negative reviews.This series is very funny to watch!i had an enjoyable time watching it,it's relaxing and funny.I think it deserves better ratings,some scenes were really awesome.If you want a good comedy this will be a very good show to watch!
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dblakes2216 April 2018Very entertaining and fun! Scenarios are hilarious and the character interaction is a breath of fresh air.
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timbirtv14 January 2018After watching the first episode, I found myself extremely disappointed as while there is potential with this premise, the show itself falls short in almost every possible way. Wanting to see if this was just a fluke, I then decided to watch the second episode to see if anything changed. Unfortunately however, nothing did. I did not even break so much as a smile due to poorly written dialogue, and a lack of jokes. Most of them end up getting lost in the unnecessary, and often inappropriate scenes between characters who are just strange. In addition to this, I believe that, if by some chance it makes it any further than a season, that they will begin to realize just how limiting the very small airplane set it. By reducing the ability for characters to be mobile, it forces writers to focus more on writing humorous dialogue which they can very simply not seem to deliver.
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mravr18 April 2018This witty show is the cat's meow! Every oddball character, especially Bernard and his Paul-Lindesque zingers, Ronnie and her frantic, comic leading lady-isms both steal the show. By an inch. The rest of the group fight for a place on the podium so ferociously that everyone wins first place, including the writers! Every episode I'm roaring with laughter, like when Ronnie begs Bernard to distract her boyfriend Bryan with a conversation about cheese, he says "I'll SCREAM at Bryan about cheese!" Or when Ronnie bemoans her date list that requires a visit to "some art-zoo," Bernard and the stripper correct her with a frustrated one-word "museums." Timing is everything and this show has got it in spades.
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fastpuppy3 January 2018This is everything that is wrong with Television today.
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LA to Vegas has all the elements of a TV show that is sadly lacking in many other comedies. It is best watched after a hard days work when winding down is needed. Capt. Dave and the crew share the spotlight with an eccentric group of regular passengers making the regular trip to Vegas on Potluck Airlines.
Personally I love the scripting, the characters, and the production in it's entirety. Clever writing and timing delivery makes this show stand out from others in the comedy genre. I can see this becoming a cult classic. Peter Stromare from Swedish Dicks plays a classic compulsive gambler and adds to the quirkiness effectively. Well written, well acted and well made, such a rarity amongst so much other garbage on TV. The only gripe is how short the trip and episodes are. This is one show I look forward to every week without fail.
Whoever writes these stories obviously has some inside pilot and air crew knowledge and uses it very effectively to tell an amusing story every episode.
DEFINITELY worth a watch. -
jimel9818 February 2018This show is funny. I don't give a hoot what the pretentious snobs out there think, not all GOOD comedy has to be brainy, British farce. With it's head in the clouds and it's feet on the ground, this program nicely straddles outrageous insanity and good old fashioned basic humor about the 'normal' weekend round trip flights from, well, LA to Vegas.
* Capt. Dave is a howl as self absorbed Capt. Dave. (best episode, "Two and a Half Pilots" where he and equally self absorbed Capt. Steve, masterfully played Dermot Mulroney, NOT Dylan McDermott-Capt. Dave) get into a pissing contest about piloting.) * Ronnie, the disgruntled and rather mysterious female flight attendant.
* Bernard, the disgruntled, yet more accepting of his position (and why not, that's no easy job and not everyone could ever do it.) who is equally mysterious.
* Alan-Co-pilot who is a bit naïve, inexperienced and in slight awe of Capt. Dave.
And the passengers, anchored by: * Nichole-a Las Vegas stripper who commutes to work weekends and is a lot smarter than she appears * Artem-the crafty gambler who also seems to have a rather bizarre past growing up SOMEWHERE in probably Eastern Europe. (at three he dug a hole for a swimming pool. At 4 he discovered it was a mass grave!) and * Colin-a recently divorced father of one who's ex lives in Vegas. He's like some of the reviewers on this site, a bit pretentious and over the top in self absorption, but he gets to know others before he truly condemns them.
It's a terrific show so far and, as another reviewer pointed out, and many have for many shows, the absolute gold standard of TV comedy, "Seinfeld" got off to a slow start and was threatened with cancellation. I don't know if that's been kicked around, I certainly hope not, but I've seen far too many great shows knocked down in their infancy by small minded TV execs. I've read the External Reviews and all are behind it. I know if weed out the naysayers here and just watch the show, odds are probably good you'll get hooked. It's just funny, and as my 'headline' stated, that's all you need.
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I've flown a lot, and I was predisposed to (hopefully) like this. I haven't seen anything this good in years. OK, it's not as brainiac as Frasier, but otherwise it's right up there in the highest ranks of ensemble comedy (one episode excepted). I hope there is a season 2.
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dallassocial24 February 2018The premise of following the exploits of an economy airline flight crew and their passengers traveling to and from Las Vegas could prove to be funny. You have a cut-rate pilot who was drummed out of the Air Force and no longer able to fly intercontinental flights. A burnt out female attendant whose been with the airline too long to quit. A gay male attendant who has more "experience" in the cockpit than the plane's captain. Then we have the protagonist, a young and ambitious woman who strives for more in life but settles for what (and where) she's at.
When I saw this, I immediately saw the same potential as NBC's Superstore. Except that instead of a middle-America discount store, it's the crazy in-flight adventures of a Las Vegas flight. Having lived and worked in Vegas, I had witnessed many of these real flights first hand. Messing up the comedy for this show would have to be real feat.
I'm not sure how LA 2 Vegas does it, but they do it badly. There's no chemistry between the characters. Story lines are written so haphazardly and are forgettable. There's no "highlight moments" that you could imagine our protagonist falling back to that has her exiting the plane wanting to share her story. You want to love the scamp of a pilot (played by McDermott) but even he fails to execute.
This show has tons of potential. The comedy gold truly lives in the very true (but often unbelievable) stories of those who really make this jump to Sin City regularly. There's very little need to exaggerate the eccentricities in which these people encounter. The show itself though comes off as being pretentious... "Hey, this is funny. If you don't think it's funny. Then you're not funny." Which is sad because you're missing out on putting an exclamation point on true comedy gold.
Does it have potential? Sure it does. But in its current state, it's nothing more than a stoner laugh track. -
bigchris-812914 January 2018I watched the premeire of this Tuesday night and while it wasn't perfect by any means it had a few good laughs thrown in and I rather liked it no its not the most original or the most clever show but it is what it is and it does not try to be any more then that and that's just fine with me for now anyway
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Are the writers and producers serious?? I've been watching sitcoms for over 50 years, and bar none - this is the WORST show I have EVER seen. I watched the entire episode, praying by the minute that it would at least make me smile (let alone laugh), but there's simply nothing amusing, or funny about it. The premise has potential, but only if the "Powers That Be" IMMEDIATELY FIRE ALL THE WRITERS and start fresh, it might have a chance at being saved. Dylan McDermott should be nominated for a Razzie Award, in the category of "ABSOLUTE WORST CASTING IN A SITCOM IN THE HISTORY OF SITCOMS" - and fired forthwith, he must be deeply in debt to have accepted this role - and since he doesn't have the good sense (or brains) to be embarrassed by his affiliation with this farce, I'm mortified FOR him. Sitcom enthusiasts' time would be better spent Thursday nights, plucking their nose hairs for thirty minutes. I predict "LA to Vegas" crashes and burns (pun intended) in six episodes.