Nice patter and dialogue, interesting-ish, easy to watch, Nicole Kidman and Javier Barderm were surprisingly great (they've both been good actors... it was just the playing icons factor), JK Simmons is wonderful.
No stakes, not really. The show was never in danger and it was hard to care about the marriage. Weird subplot between Lucy and Vivian Vance about looking good. Overlong.
Some irritating historical flaws - Judy Holliday was never a threat
for Lucille Ball's career until 1946 after her appearance in Born
Yesterday, certainly not around the time of The Big Street in 1942 - I
don't mind putting all the events on the series in one week (communism,
pregnancy, cheating... all took place over different years IRL) -that
Judy Holliday thing just bothered me
It went down easy. Gets points featuring an actor playing Charles Koerner of RKO. But maybe they dramatised the wrong week - getting the show up was surely more fraught with peril.
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