Browsers

Let's just put this up front, this show is not good. The writing is lazy and often terrible. All of the characters are so undeveloped that they should have their stock descriptions written on their shirts. The costume design is occasionally as lazy as the writing.

Now these offenses are enough to mark any show as awful, but let's not forget what this show is claiming to be. This is the musical show, which is really what it should be called since it leans on this crutch so forcefully that the basic plot seems secondary to even the creators. So then, how's the music? Oh, it's just like the rest of the show, garbage. The lyrics are possibly worse than the wooden dialogue, not to mention that the songs feel forced even for a musical. Did we really need a song that basically consists of the phrase "going viral" over and over, or, God help us, an entire song about Twitter? If you were unsure, the answer to both those questions is a resounding NO. But I'm sure the music composition is good, right? Nope. Each song sounds like it was composed by a 12-year-old that just discovered GarageBand on his mom's Mac. Although I will acquiesce this one point, all of the singing is pretty good, with some of the actors showing some real vocal talent.

I can only imagine that the creators sat down and thought, "Musical fans are easy to please, I mean look at Glee. Let's just take a boring premise, and we'll just throw some generic songs throughout, and I'm sure they will just be so excited to have a musical show that they will look passed the obvious little care we put into this. Oh, and let's have a bleeped F-bomb in one of the songs, so we can say we're being edgy".

A bad show is a bad show, and throwing a gimmick into it will not make it any better. In the case of browsers, it is possible that the insistence on making this show a musical has taken a lackluster show and made it soul-crushingly terrible. The quicker that Amazon stops producing this show, the better. But hey, it's good to see that Bebe Neuwirth is still alive, so there's that.

This is the type of show that people dare each other to watch all 23 minutes of.

It centers around a group of 4 interns whose characters have been fleshed out just enough to have an immediate goal. The rest of the characterization is reliant on stereotypes. Given this information, it's no surprise that the dialogue is forgettable and boring.

But wait! For some reason, probably the result of the same drugs the Asian computer whiz character was on for the first 30 seconds of the show, it's a musical as well! There's no real reason for these people to sing, so instead of having the writer's find the logical music cue, they just had them write pun-filled songs as boring as the characters themselves.

I truly do not mean to be so snarky, and it's obvious that the writers have a fondness for musicals, but this was so thrown together and slapdash that it was painful to watch.

Also, giving Bebe Neuwirth, a true powerhouse of musical theater talent, scant screen time in favor of the less-than-fantastic four interns is a crime so heinous that it makes me understand some people's predilection for torture. And whose idea was that accent?!