The original post: /r/television by /u/HydroFluoric1 on 2025-09-07 04:01:59+00:00.
Blunt Talk had all the ingredients to be great—Patrick Stewart as an unhinged news anchor, a premise ripe for sharp media satire, and a solid supporting cast—but it never quite came together. The tone was all over the place, swinging from absurd comedy to half-baked emotional drama, and the writing couldn’t decide if it wanted to be a smart critique or just a weird, chaotic mess. Stewart gave it everything, but it felt like the show didn’t know what it wanted to be, and no one was at the wheel to steer it in the right direction. What are your thoughts?