The 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.
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.