How do we recover from tragedy?

How we rebound from catastrophic mistakes?

Unfortunately, everything fresh is smothered by stale flavors and peculiar cooking, making for disappointing gumbo.

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Welcome to Summer TV, a time for misfit toys.

Last year saw an unusual number of winners: LifetimesUnReal, USAsMr.

But hey, sweet stove.

Some things cant wait, I guess.

Like pleasing an audience with cheap cable TV-MA.

The result is two poorly cooked tastes that dont go great together.

TJs muteness comes off more quirky-gimmicky than authentic and interesting.

Thats not even trying to be clever.

The Danish version may have employed these strategies and made them work.

Here, they yield shallowness and clunk.

I was ready to check out after episode 2.