The character of Mel is back and still clinging to the same joke her sexual obsession with Bret and Jemaine. Dave talks to The Conchords as the voice of a "real man" and the voice of "America" – and he shouldn't really be representing either.
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The Bret that we saw in " Wingmen" was definitely not the guy who easily landed Coco as a girlfriend back in " Bret Gives Up the Dream." And the Bret and Jemaine we saw in " Same Girl" weren't the dudes we saw in " Sally Returns." Yes, there were still funny moments, but they only came through the de-evolving of the characters from being just dim, to being completely inept and useless.īret+attempts+to+hawk+his+ I really enjoy the character of Dave (Arj Barker), who is almost this show's way of stating that you don't have to be from a "backwards" country to have a head full of crazy and hilarious notions and dumb advice. We got snippets of band-centric, or at least success-related stories in the season opener " A Good Opportunity" and then again in the season finale " Evicted" – but in between there were just a ton of stories involving "having girlfriends," or the "attempt to get a girlfriend." I just felt like we'd already covered a lot of this stuff back in Season 1 with the characters of Coco, Sally, and the "new fans." I know I already mentioned that the show didn't need to feel the need to make sense as far as continuity was concerned, but I do still expect it to have consistency. I'm not saying that Season 1 didn't have these stories as well, but in Season 2 there seemed to be less focus on The Conchords trying to make it as a band. This season tended to focus a lot more heavily on Bret ( Bret McKenzie) and Jemaine's ( Jemaine Clement) romantic exploits and misadventures. Lucy Lawless portrayed Paula in " NewZealandTown" came off as a more grown up and "together" adult New Zealander, and yet in the end, even she thought the pathetic New Zealand-themed street was a big success. There are occasions when we'll run into other characters that act as surrogate "adults," but they don't stick around very long. And, let's face, just about anything Murray says is funny. New Zealand is portrayed as not only comically "behind the times," but apparently all of its denizens have the mental acumen of a fifth grader that's about to be held back a year. I think I really appreciate the notion that the three of them can be living in one of the most sophisticated and metropolitan places on the globe and yet they're still be hard pressed to understand the most basic things about human nature. I live for the moments in Murray's office when our three main characters get together and compare inane propositions. But here we go again - with a second season of low key wackiness that finds our favorite hapless Kiwi twits back as the beloved and impoverished folk duo.Ĭonchords is at its zany best when they're not trying to be overly-zany. It really did seem like they wrote it without a Season 2 in mind.
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Sue me, but Conchords never struck me as a show that was beholden to its own zany story arcs – especially since the finale to Season 1 felt like it could have been a series finale. I wasn't sure if this was the kind of show that would actually carry on the storyline from its previous silly and surreal season capper, since I would have been just fine with things returning back to normal as if nothing ever happened. Season 2 of Flight of the Conchords starts off with a direct continuation of the Season 1 finale, with Murray ( Rhys Darby) reaching new heights of success with his awful, yet immensely popular, new act The Crazy Dogggz.