My overall rating of "Flight of the Conchords"'s Season 2: 5/10
I'm not sure if this episode went through a development hell of some kind and was rescripted and reedited several times, but in my mind if you sign up Lucy Lawless onto your show, you'd want her to play a character with at least a double digit number of lines. Or half a dozen, at least. What is even the point of her character? To hint at a deeper characterisation for the Prime Minister, a character who is episodic in two episodes and doesn't appear again?... She works in essentially the same job as Murray - why not have her be his love interest, as he moves on from his wife? Would've made a lot more sense. Frankly, she was there so little that I only realised it was Lucy Lawless in the last scene, and then the absurdity of that guest appearance really hit me. She deserves better.
But the "Fashion" song there was pretty cool, and some of the jokes were funny, even if far from all, so it's not all disappointing - just mostly.
I'm not sure if this episode went through a development hell of some kind and was rescripted and reedited several times, but in my mind if you sign up Lucy Lawless onto your show, you'd want her to play a character with at least a double digit number of lines. Or half a dozen, at least. What is even the point of her character? To hint at a deeper characterisation for the Prime Minister, a character who is episodic in two episodes and doesn't appear again?... She works in essentially the same job as Murray - why not have her be his love interest, as he moves on from his wife? Would've made a lot more sense. Frankly, she was there so little that I only realised it was Lucy Lawless in the last scene, and then the absurdity of that guest appearance really hit me. She deserves better.
But the "Fashion" song there was pretty cool, and some of the jokes were funny, even if far from all, so it's not all disappointing - just mostly.
