"February saw the release of many new movies and tv shows, including Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantimania, Cocaine Bear, season four of You, and many others. But one show got a little overlooked by many viewers: the new Apple TV show Hello Tomorrow, which premiered on February 17th."--Halia Pratt, 6th grade
February saw the release of many new movies and tv shows, including Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantimania, Cocaine Bear, season four of You, and many others. But one show got a little overlooked by many viewers: the new Apple TV show Hello Tomorrow, which premiered on February 17th. It was created by Amit Bhalla and Lucas Jansen, who also co-created the Netflix thriller Bloodline. Bhalla also created the short film Lago and Jansen created This is Not a Robbery. The first three episodes of the 10 episode show premiered on February 17th but the rest of the episodes will be released every week.
Hello Tomorrow follows upbeat salesman Jack Billings, who is played by Billy Crudup, and his sales team as they attempt to sell timeshares on the moon to citizens who are down on their luck. The show is set in a futuristic past. The clothes and the furniture resemble 1960’s fashion but the cars hover and robots deliver groceries and walk the dog. One of the first scenes shows a typical street in this alternative world. It follows a delivery van that seems to be driven by a friendly cartoon pelican. There are two children walking a dog robot and a robot walking a dog. There are robots offering water to people and women whizzing around in salon chairs. A robot newspaper deliverer spits out newspapers, most of them landing on roofs or in bushes. The van reaches the end of the street and pulls into a driveway to deliver a package. After it throws the package, a woman walks behind the van to grab the package and while it's pulling out, the van suddenly stops and backs up to make room for a dog and it hits the woman, crushing her skull into the garage door and sending her into a coma. This random woman actually turns out to be Jack's wife and once he hears that she’s been injured he takes his sales team to the town she lives in. While there, he meets his long-lost son and reconnects with him, but doesn’t tell him they are related. Eventually Jack hires his own son to work for him on his marketing team. Herb, one of Jack's associates, sells a condo to a woman after revealing that her husband is cheating on her and she realizes that it is a scam and is determined to prove it. The rest of the show is just subplots and bad jokes.
The reviews following the premier of Hello Tomorrow have been similar in fashion. Many reviews found the characters unbelievable “the series is so stylized, not just in the design but also in the performances and the “Guys and Dolls” dialogue, that the characters often feel cartoony and unconvincing, ” says James Poniewozik in his New York Times review. The audience reviews seem to agree. Almost every review stated that the dialogue was cartoonish.
“Some of the acting is really too cartoonish,” said commenter Kevin Boyle.
Another thing that reviewers were in agreement about was the fact that the plot was so confusing it was nearly impossible to follow.
”What is thoroughly, achingly real is the pervasive theme of lies and why people tell them. Falsehoods are an effective plot engine, of course, but here they are also about character; they’re the sad, sleazy cousins of wishes,” writes Poniewozik
My initial opinion on Hello Tomorrow, after watching the first episode, was intrigue. It was interesting and I felt like it could only get better from there, but after sitting through the second episode I could tell that I was wrong. The pace and the plot and the structure stayed the same throughout the first three episodes, and while there were minor subplots, it felt stretched out. Perhaps if the editors had been a little more deliberate, the first episodes could have been compacted into one interesting, action-packed, 40 minute episode.
Throughout the entirety of the show,I actually felt like the editors could have been a little more diligent. The plot of the show was really interesting. When I heard a segment about it on the news I was immediately interested and excited to watch because the plot sounded amazing. Timeshares on the moon is such an interesting concept and I feel like it could have been executed really well.
One thing I thought was excellent, however, was the aesthetics of the show. They were so intricately planned out, and each costume was beautiful and fitting for the setting. The sets were well done and they did a really good job conveying this futuristic past in which the show is set. I loved the color scheme and the attention to detail. If even an eighth of the set's budget had gone to the writers or editors this could have been a truly amazing series. The characters in Hello Tomorrow were not as interesting as I would have hoped. Billy Crudup was the perfect choice for this role and all of the actors portrayed their characters really well but it felt like the characters were kind of bland. The plot wasn’t exciting enough for the characters to be so bland and the characters weren’t interesting enough for the plot to be so mild.
Overall, I felt Hello Tomorrow could have been a wonderful piece but it needed more editing and a deliberate plot structure.
Hello Tomorrow follows upbeat salesman Jack Billings, who is played by Billy Crudup, and his sales team as they attempt to sell timeshares on the moon to citizens who are down on their luck. The show is set in a futuristic past. The clothes and the furniture resemble 1960’s fashion but the cars hover and robots deliver groceries and walk the dog. One of the first scenes shows a typical street in this alternative world. It follows a delivery van that seems to be driven by a friendly cartoon pelican. There are two children walking a dog robot and a robot walking a dog. There are robots offering water to people and women whizzing around in salon chairs. A robot newspaper deliverer spits out newspapers, most of them landing on roofs or in bushes. The van reaches the end of the street and pulls into a driveway to deliver a package. After it throws the package, a woman walks behind the van to grab the package and while it's pulling out, the van suddenly stops and backs up to make room for a dog and it hits the woman, crushing her skull into the garage door and sending her into a coma. This random woman actually turns out to be Jack's wife and once he hears that she’s been injured he takes his sales team to the town she lives in. While there, he meets his long-lost son and reconnects with him, but doesn’t tell him they are related. Eventually Jack hires his own son to work for him on his marketing team. Herb, one of Jack's associates, sells a condo to a woman after revealing that her husband is cheating on her and she realizes that it is a scam and is determined to prove it. The rest of the show is just subplots and bad jokes.
The reviews following the premier of Hello Tomorrow have been similar in fashion. Many reviews found the characters unbelievable “the series is so stylized, not just in the design but also in the performances and the “Guys and Dolls” dialogue, that the characters often feel cartoony and unconvincing, ” says James Poniewozik in his New York Times review. The audience reviews seem to agree. Almost every review stated that the dialogue was cartoonish.
“Some of the acting is really too cartoonish,” said commenter Kevin Boyle.
Another thing that reviewers were in agreement about was the fact that the plot was so confusing it was nearly impossible to follow.
”What is thoroughly, achingly real is the pervasive theme of lies and why people tell them. Falsehoods are an effective plot engine, of course, but here they are also about character; they’re the sad, sleazy cousins of wishes,” writes Poniewozik
My initial opinion on Hello Tomorrow, after watching the first episode, was intrigue. It was interesting and I felt like it could only get better from there, but after sitting through the second episode I could tell that I was wrong. The pace and the plot and the structure stayed the same throughout the first three episodes, and while there were minor subplots, it felt stretched out. Perhaps if the editors had been a little more deliberate, the first episodes could have been compacted into one interesting, action-packed, 40 minute episode.
Throughout the entirety of the show,I actually felt like the editors could have been a little more diligent. The plot of the show was really interesting. When I heard a segment about it on the news I was immediately interested and excited to watch because the plot sounded amazing. Timeshares on the moon is such an interesting concept and I feel like it could have been executed really well.
One thing I thought was excellent, however, was the aesthetics of the show. They were so intricately planned out, and each costume was beautiful and fitting for the setting. The sets were well done and they did a really good job conveying this futuristic past in which the show is set. I loved the color scheme and the attention to detail. If even an eighth of the set's budget had gone to the writers or editors this could have been a truly amazing series. The characters in Hello Tomorrow were not as interesting as I would have hoped. Billy Crudup was the perfect choice for this role and all of the actors portrayed their characters really well but it felt like the characters were kind of bland. The plot wasn’t exciting enough for the characters to be so bland and the characters weren’t interesting enough for the plot to be so mild.
Overall, I felt Hello Tomorrow could have been a wonderful piece but it needed more editing and a deliberate plot structure.
