Note: Full spoilers for the episode follow.
It was bound to happen eventually. Liv takes on different personalities each week after she consumes brains, and in order to communicate how the brains are affecting her, those personalities have to be slightly exaggerated. It's usually done just right with only a little ridiculousness, but tonight's frat boy brains? The jokes were all about stereotypes. Every fraternity member we met seemed to be cut from the same obnoxious cloth, and all Liv's mannerisms were too Animal House. And all the words that were bro'd up like "brocabulary?" No thanks. I rolled my eyes more than I laughed.
Infusing Liv with recognizable personality traits means walking a fine line. They've stepped over said line in the past two episodes by pushing Liv into caricature territory. It's not nuanced. Unless it's part of long term dietary effects -- that the brains are having a stronger influence on Liv -- it's frustrating. If it is a side effect, Liv or even Ravi should notice the change and mention it. Preferably sooner rather than later.
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It was bound to happen eventually. Liv takes on different personalities each week after she consumes brains, and in order to communicate how the brains are affecting her, those personalities have to be slightly exaggerated. It's usually done just right with only a little ridiculousness, but tonight's frat boy brains? The jokes were all about stereotypes. Every fraternity member we met seemed to be cut from the same obnoxious cloth, and all Liv's mannerisms were too Animal House. And all the words that were bro'd up like "brocabulary?" No thanks. I rolled my eyes more than I laughed.
Infusing Liv with recognizable personality traits means walking a fine line. They've stepped over said line in the past two episodes by pushing Liv into caricature territory. It's not nuanced. Unless it's part of long term dietary effects -- that the brains are having a stronger influence on Liv -- it's frustrating. If it is a side effect, Liv or even Ravi should notice the change and mention it. Preferably sooner rather than later.
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