Hackiness

The only criticism of “Death Time” is the extreme hackiness of the plot.

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I could go on and comment on the following little classics, such as: “Isolationist”, “He Took It With Him”, “The Lunar Point of View”, “Call of Duty”, “Blueprint for Destruction”, all of which were highly enjoyable and without the taint of “hackiness” to stigmatize them for the Gripes Committee.

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Occasional moments of “hey, this feels like something” (a conversation between Nadal and Aladeen about why Yiddish words are so useful) are drowned out by big stretches of hackiness, like an extended scene where Aladeen (for no good reason, really, other than the lady-parts-related jokes) helps a woman deliver a baby.

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The fictionalized Peacock run by Jack and others was doing no better, cycling through bad ideas like MILF Island and Bitch Hunter, and while the show had great fun at the expense of the network suits, it had equal skepticism about the creative types, whether the hackiness of TGS’s writers or the way stars Tracy and Jenna (Jane Krakowski) were revealed to be erratic, emotionally needy sociopaths.

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