Pete has yet to figure out that the art of winning an audience is perfected through enthusiastically failing again and again. Crashing shows that Holmes has already mastered that lesson and has moved on to quietly, honestly killing it.
I love Petey, and i love watching a fictionalized version of his early days pursuing his dream. i can't wait to watch him catch his first big break, or watch him gradually inch his way to success.
Really, really liked it. Sorry to read there're only three seasons. Pete Holmes is a very likable guy. You root for him and he is very funny ... in his interactions with other characters/comics. His stand up in S1? Not so so so good. Deliberate I know. There is a bit of jock-sniffing going on with the professional/ successful comics ... and they're all portrayed as super kind, generous people who want nothing more than to help new comics. While I've heard anecdotally that most successful comics are angry and dark-hearted. This is a light Sunday breeze that goes right up the kimono and tickles you right where you like to be tickled.
This is the kind of show that’s not going to make the big pop-culture impact of the series that precedes it--Girls--but it’s a worthy dispenser of pleasure.
The knock-down, pop-up rhythms of Crashing can grow wearying when the only character we’re following is the one going through them. But they also make the few moments of triumph so, so satisfying.
Although TV has no shortage of shows built around comics and their lives--or for that matter, pulling back the curtain on showbiz--this one captures that moment before success kicks in. Crashing doesn't look like HBO's next great comedy, but based on its opening acts, it has the makings of a pretty good one.
When it’s studying and performing the rituals of that new religion [stand-up comedy], Crashing is a treat, and a worthy new addition to the comedy house of worship HBO has been building for decades. But, like the fictional Pete Holmes, you have to endure some mortification to get there.
There is a sense of realness that is so delightful. The way the struggle is presented is in the most subtle way. Great show to let you wind down, definitely advertises new york comedy clubs!
This show has a lot of heart. It doesn't make stand-up look easy. So it's charming to see Pete try to make a professional climb. The other characters add a lot of spice to the mix. Artie Lange in particular really sets a fun atmosphere to the show. I'd recommend it.
There are definitely good parts of this show, but very few of them have much to do with Pete Holmes. I find myself far more interested in the supporting characters and the one-off cameos than I am with the main character - and that's a problem. I don't know if they are purposefully making him boring and mostly unfunny, or that's just him. While the main character doesn't have to be the funniest character in the show, he definitely needs to have his moments and show signs of life. I just don't get enough of that from Pete. It'd be much more funny and compelling to see Pete (the character) really killing it for shows and then see the younger guys or other comedians going on to have success while he just doesn't figure it out. Instead, I'm kind of like "yeah, that guy was much funnier and he deserves to be picked over Pete". While the love story in Season 3 is endearing, I just hope things pick up a little more.
The show has it's charms and is entertaining, but it lacks energy.
Pete comes across as a sympathetic looser and his journey is interesting and funny enough, but the performances of the other comedians trying to act are hit and miss.
I'll keep on watching for now, but I'm not sure whether it will keep me interested...
It starts off interesting enough, the struggles of a stand up comic loosely based off of Pete Holmes's life, but Apatow goes and turns it into his usual and typical and tired cliche of laughing at the dorky, awkward, manboy trying to make it into the real world.
The only true highlight of this show is not Pete Holmes's act and Apatow's writing, which gets old by the third episode, and downright irritating by the final episode, but the guest appearances of top-tier comics such as Artie Lange, Sarah Silverman (her performance is arguably the best one of the show) and Lauren Lapkus. Otherwise, you've seen it before in the form of "40 year old virgin," "Silicon Valley" (especially considering that TJ Miller acts too much like his Silicon Valley character), and "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" which, despite it being set in a different time period, its literally the same plot and characters, albeit with much better acting and writing.