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Steve Swanson and JD Hansel are largely negative reviewing Curious Creations of Christine McConnell.
Steve: It's like they just decide all of a sudden, now it's a cooking show. Like it's funny, the little cat character, there's a couple things I did enjoy about it. One of them is whenever Christine McConnell goes into baking show mode, and she's explaining "In order to prepare the pretzels, na na na na", and the cat goes "Who the **** you talking to?" I think that's very funny, because in the world of the show it's not a cooking show, but this weird quirky character becomes this macabre Martha Stewart.
JD: It's explained as being her madness, like she's just insane and I like that.
Steve: And that's the thing. "Why is she quirky? Cause she's just quirky." Yeah, but she's gotta be funny or interesting and she's neither one of those things. She's pretty, I'll say that, Instagram model, there you go, but she's horrible on camera. And no one figured that out in thankfully only 6 episodes. But if you took her out of the show and replaced her with a funny actress, Amy Poehler or Tina Fey, someone who's funny, then this would be great.
JD: I'm not sure about that cause I wasn't as into the puppet characters.
Steve: Well, the puppet characters needed work too. The voices in almost every case were completely wrong for the character, and I was disappointed in the puppeteers for that cause, you oughta know better by now. I mean we hear them say all the time "It's not about the voice, it's about finding the character". Well, these characters, (In a deep voice) there's a tiny Egyptian cat with a voice that sounds like this. That cat isn't big enough to have a voice that sounds like that. All these stupid inconsistencies, it's like "I get the fact that you guys are having fun on set, and you don't care how the product turns out, but I'm kinda tired of that concept. You did that for a whole movie, and now you're doing it for a TV show and I'm sick of it. Can you get your **** together please, Henson?"
Steve: It's like they just decide all of a sudden, now it's a cooking show. Like it's funny, the little cat character, there's a couple things I did enjoy about it. One of them is whenever Christine McConnell goes into baking show mode, and she's explaining "In order to prepare the pretzels, na na na na", and the cat goes "Who the **** you talking to?" I think that's very funny, because in the world of the show it's not a cooking show, but this weird quirky character becomes this macabre Martha Stewart.
JD: It's explained as being her madness, like she's just insane and I like that.
Steve: And that's the thing. "Why is she quirky? Cause she's just quirky." Yeah, but she's gotta be funny or interesting and she's neither one of those things. She's pretty, I'll say that, Instagram model, there you go, but she's horrible on camera. And no one figured that out in thankfully only 6 episodes. But if you took her out of the show and replaced her with a funny actress, Amy Poehler or Tina Fey, someone who's funny, then this would be great.
JD: I'm not sure about that cause I wasn't as into the puppet characters.
Steve: Well, the puppet characters needed work too. The voices in almost every case were completely wrong for the character, and I was disappointed in the puppeteers for that cause, you oughta know better by now. I mean we hear them say all the time "It's not about the voice, it's about finding the character". Well, these characters, (In a deep voice) there's a tiny Egyptian cat with a voice that sounds like this. That cat isn't big enough to have a voice that sounds like that. All these stupid inconsistencies, it's like "I get the fact that you guys are having fun on set, and you don't care how the product turns out, but I'm kinda tired of that concept. You did that for a whole movie, and now you're doing it for a TV show and I'm sick of it. Can you get your **** together please, Henson?"
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