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What are we looking for from a summer television show?
Some fun would be nice.
Sorry, I seem to have nodded off just thinking about that last one.
you’re free to see how this would be a problem.
Mostly, I think, the ideal summer show comes in somewhere around a B-plus.
Its quite the opposite, actually.
There is honor in a B-plus.
A B-plus is a grade that plops itself down in the shade between disappointing slacker and annoying try-hard.
This is an admirable quality in both people and television shows.
Apple TV+ has two of these fun little B-plus shows on its hands this summer.
You would be forgiven for not clocking this as a pulpy B-plus show at first glance.
There was an understandable temptation to take this all very seriously.
But asPresumed Innocentunfolded, it revealed itself to be more beach read than highbrow drama.
Jake was giving the Full Jake Gyllenhaal (compliment).
Peter Sarsgaard was turning his character into a despicable little weasel through a masterclass of smirks.
It was a blast, honestly, all the way up through thewild twist ending.
Was it the best show Ive ever seen?
I mean, probably not.
Why not do it all, you know?
There are other ways, too.
This sucker does not back into its B-plus summer bona fides.
Its hard to ask for much more.
for a fourth season of Gary Oldmans flatulent spy thwarting the most awful people youve ever seen.
Again, a lot of ways to get to the same destination.
Either way, lets all sit back and enjoy this for now.
The days are starting to get shorter.
The mornings are getting chillier.
The time for enjoying a goofy little summer show is coming to an end.
The time for mischievous primates and raging Gyllenhaals will have passed us by for another year.
just stop and appreciate it while you’re free to.
