I watched Please Like Me from Josh Tomas. It was good, but the character from Josh Tomas was unbearable and on this show his playing the exact same character just with a different name. The plot is actually good, but predictable even get some Please Like Me moments with the boyfriends fighting. For me the best part of the show is Genevive and Matilda, they actually carries the show on their back.
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boigonh5 February 2022I watched it specifically because I want to support casting autistic actors to play autistic characters and of course I'm hoping the way we're portrayed becomes more nuanced and less stereotyped. I was concerned in the beginning that they were playing a lot of stereotypes and so much person first language etc. I had a lot of moments through the first season that felt like they were leaning hard into the idea of autism. I don't know if they any autistic writers but I hope they brought some in.
The second season actually does deconstruct some of those ideas tho. I think the big reveal toward the end helps a lot. I also think there's some benefit to the conversation around the fact that so many of our ideas about being autistic come from studying autistic kids and teens. An adolescent autistic person is still an adolescent and teenagers don't make great choices and teenagers can be self absorbed as they're trying to figure out how to be in the world. I think for the most part we're the canary in the coal mine. We just react sooner and stronger but we're no so different. We just communicate the same things in a different way. So seeing various representations and presentations as well as how different people mask and who gets missed and why is an important thing to touch on.
I'd say stick it out, if that's what's bothering you. The second season helps balance out the first. -
wellerkathryn18 January 2020I haven't watched Please Like Me at all, but this seemed cute from the ads. I think the two daughters are both great actresses and characters, and I'm enjoying the relationship between Nick and Alex. I thought Nicholas's character was unnecessarily childish during some of the scenes in the first half of the pilot, but he got better even in just that episode. I'm finding the relationships between Genevieve and her friends inexplicable and inconsistent, but maybe that's how teenage friendships are in the real world? I certainly hope that group is not the focus of too many episodes, though. I will definitely keep watching! It's not perfect, but it's early, and it's definitely not the "unwatchable trash" that certain people with some underlying philosophical differences would like you to believe..
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itserinoclock15 February 2020I love this show because it is unique in many ways, but most importantly, it makes me feel warm and fuzzy while while laughing a lot. Firstly, I love a show in which the main character is gay, not as a plot point, but as a mere fact about that character. Mainly, however, the most interesting part of this show is the strange, funny, and interesting personalities of all the characters. It's an interesting dynamic: watching a barely-thirty-something-year-old man do his best to raise almost-adults in the wake of their father's untimely death. It's also refreshing when a series pays full attention to the writing and acting of characters of all ages. I cannot stress enough how irritating i find it when a show writes for adults, then brings on a child character who has no substance, whether due to writing, acting, or both. In this case, the three main characters, Nicholas, Genevieve, and Matilda, each carry equal weight, and they are here to make you laugh while you're crying.
Nicholas, played by Josh Thomas, is remarkably similar to his "please Like Me" character, but not distastefully. He is a realist and actively narrates is thoughts out loud as he's thinking them. If he is doubtful, judgey, amused, etcetera, it all comes out of his mouth, which makes his character seem so believably candid.
Genevieve is the youngest sister who is petite and physically fragile-looking, but has the maturity, vocabulary, and whit of a grown adult. She is the youngest, but she has a mother who died young, a father who died in the first episode, and an older sister with autism whom she feels protective of. She's had to grow up fast, but she is still a young high-schooler with little experience of sex, drugs, and rock and roll, so to speak. Her character makes a lot of sense. Her maturity makes you wonder why she chooses to stick with a "friend" like Tellulah who is clearly so naively focused on appearing to be grown-up that she is just stupid and dramatic most of the time. But, we were all either Tellulah or friends with Tellulah growing up, so it makes the friendship re-centers the viewer to remember that Genevieve is just a fourteen year old child.
Thirdly, you have Tilda, who is the seventeen-year-old sister with high-functioning autism. She is wonderfully blunt and open and honest, and as a viewer, you find yourself always rooting for her. She is great because she cuts through all the social norm of dancing around what we mean to say. Instead she says what she means and goes after what she wants. In this way, she is enviable. But in time you realise that this comes with a cost. She gets confused by the world of people, she feels anxiety, and she gets overwhelmed. Still, she. is. damn. funny. And it is great knowing that the actress who plays her has autism in real life. This show knows how to be a show in 2020, and I'm here for it. -
katiefanning17 January 2020This show is very similar to the main character's other show he wrote Please Like Me. It's cring-y but in a way that grows on you and makes you laugh. It addresses horribly dark situations the way any awkward millennial would address them, with an uncomfortable joke.
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If you were a fan of Please Like Me you'll find a lot to love here (especially the soundtrack, either reworn straight from PLM or the same composer, it would seem), with the same bittersweet and semi acidic take on slice of life dramedy. The show opens quite fast and has a bit of a softer touch, Josh seems a bit more grown up but the characters are still self deprecating and human. Please like me grew exponentially and tremendously from its first season (which was still incredibly charming) so with this quality out the gate, it's exciting to see where this new series goes.
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ldc-893649 February 2020I kinda like it.....kinda don't like that weird humor it has....I do like the girls their acting is superb....I think they try to hard about the gay stuff, like forcing it to be outrageous gay....but will watch to the end and decide if I want to see another season.
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charlie198518 January 2020This show has got one of the finest pilots that I have ever seen. It had me laughing out loud, crying and fully feeling everything for the main characters.
It is one of the first tv shows where one of the main teen characters is played by someone on the ASD spectrum, hopefully being able to have impact on what is written and how it comes across. It might be perceived cringeworthy to some, but... it's upping the perception of autism as it is different in everyone, and I for one love the brutal honesty in the dialogue.
Great representation of LGBTQ+ and the issues that are a part of this in our modern lives. It gives me hope, as more representation appears in mainstream tv, that there will be a time where my existence and marriage to my husband won't have to be explained anymore. -
bsloughrin13 March 2020I assume Disney was not nearly as embarrassed by this as I was in watching. How far can the company fall from Walt Disney's vision? My heart is broken
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cherold4 September 2021This weirdly uncomfortable comedy has a lot of good things in it. It's quirky sense of humor is original and reasonable funny. It has an insightful portrayal of unusual children. The boyfriend is amusing.
But I really can't take Josh Thomas. He just grates on my nerves. I would totally watch this series if there were some way to just edit him out, but since that's not an option I have to give it a pass. -
I really wanted to like this, but frankly I don't. Mediocre acting, forced storyline and jokes that feels too written. Though it in its form is a lot like PLM it is nothing like it. Doesn't have the well rounded characters, the depth or the edginess.
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What a great representation autism it is so nice to relate to characters I am seeing.
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cf_chick25 March 2020This show is so "meh" and at times frustratingly irritating. I absolutely LOVED Please Like Me and was expecting more of the same with this show but was sorely disappointed. Can't even enjoy it with a few glasses of wine under my belt. Pretty much all the characters are annoying, and not in an endearing way, especially Josh's character. There is very little interesting about this show and it tries very hard but fails to attain depth and meaning. So disappointed.
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bekah-4710617 January 2020It's sad, it's funny, it's REAL. It doesn't hold back. I think this will be my new favorite show!
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davidhinecpa18 January 2020Engaging from the get-go, most of the characters are likeable and the plot dripping with josh's acerbic wit. As we saw the progression in Josh's writing through the different seasons of "Please like me", we now see that further progressed here... and from the comments in the reviews here, it may have missed the mark with some viewers, they're certainly all talking about it... no such thing as bad publicity!
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This show! At first, I wasn't sure if I was going to like it, but as I kept watching, I couldn't stop. By the time I was halfway through the first season, I knew that these characters were some of the best I've seen on TV. The writing makes me feel like I'm watching real life in action. The actors are fabulous, and I love the diversity! I wish I had had a Nicholas in my life when I was a teenaged girl!
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Though the acting is good and some lines are amusing, the first two episodes are as incoherent as the sophomore attempt of a soon-former film school student. Not dark and edgy. Not pushing an envelope. Not a fresh take. Just cacophonous -- constant awkward mismatching of situation, character, emotion, dialogue.
In "Please Like Me," Josh Thomas demonstrated an exceptionally nuanced feel for characters young and old. He resisted formula and achieved a rawness that made the viewer feel almost voyeuristic. A masterful cast helped.
"Please Like Me" excelled from the first scene of the first show to the last shot of the finale. Thomas' new creation gets off to a cringe-y start. The premise of siblings-on-their-own is promising. Instead of starting there, he chose to attempt an episode about getting there -- and it revealed a gross misapprehension of how relationships work, the nature of grief, child development, etc. To be clear, these weren't failed jokes, they were just awful television.
Still, instead of 1 star (it was a 1-star launch for this series) I give it 4/10 stars, and I plan to keep watching -- as long as I can stand it. Josh Thomas' talent makes it possible that the series' title is prescient: as bad as this launch was, Everything's Gonna Be Okay and the series will deliver some resonant stories and great laughs in the future. -
hpatterson-1581018 January 2020I didn't think I'd like this show, almost didn't even watch it, but so glad I did. It's a little goofy but hilarious. Josh Thomas is awesome as Nicholas, the very gay Australian. Loved the other actors as well. I've only seen the first episode but it seems to me like it's a comedy with a tiny splash of sweetness and a tiny splash of drama. I hope it continues this way. It's like it takes you almost to the point of being too stupid-funny (I hate stupid funny) but then reigns you back in with with a hint of reality. Wish it was a full hour but looks like only 30 minutes. If you're homophobic or if you have a problem with people on the autism spectrum, not only will you not like it, but you also suck as a person.
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alvktt1 February 2020I am Australian and watched the whole of Please Like Me which of course I enjoyed except for the same problem I have with Everything's Gonna Be Okay. And that is, that as well as being a great comedian, Josh Thomas comes across as wholly unlikable. If he's like that in real life and I can see no reason why he wouldn't be then he's a complete dick. He's a self-interested, insensitive creep who couldn't give a rats about anything but his own urges, thoughts and feelings. Even when he's trying to look after the girls he's still horrible: telling one of the girls how dreadful her dress was, the one she'd bought to wear to her father's funeral. She said "Why would you say that?" and he replies "Oh, I thought we were joking." Moron
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eppqf-1366521 January 2020This is the funniest comedy series I've ever watched. There's lots of dark humor, but it's still wholesome and has so much heart. As a gay entomologist, this show makes me feel seen haha.
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jtungsten1618 January 2020Everything's going to be ok is an amazing show with great stories, acting, directing and cinematography. Love, Love, Love this show
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missprisspets17 January 2020Not only is this show cute and witty, but the characters are so REAL and likable. We NEED more inclusive shows like this.
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troydunnahoe27 January 2020There's gay sex scenes and an AUTISTIC girl stating she only likes black guys and people are freaking out. Saying they're throwing their "agenda" in our faces. The show is quirky and funny! The main character everyone is saying is a terrible actor plays a fun loving older brother just trying to figure out how to take care of his sisters after their dad dies. The acting is good! People need to get over themselves.
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emma_koerner9 February 2020I very much agree with catalpafamily's review. I wanted to love this, and thought I would love this like I did 'Please like me'.
Although the first episode of 'Please like me' was super awkward, it quickly became a thing of beauty. You knew, and empathised with the characters. You laughed when they laughed, you cried when they cried, you sang along to Steps with them....you get the picture!
I've only watched the first episode of this but I found it badly acted by all involved, poor characterisation (and unlikeable characters, sorry, but they are) with highly unlikely dialogue and mismatched, awkward facial expressions. Why do Josh's character and his father seem to be smiling constantly whilst having 'that conversation'? I've had 'that conversation' and this is not how it goes.
I might watch the next episode, I might not.