I’ve only seen the first episode so far. The first 15mins were slow to put it mildly, but it did pick up after that, and I’ll give it at least another episode.

Actually, it reminded me a lot of the first ep of WKRP in Cincinnati, and that went on to be pretty enjoyable.

I’m watching it with my wife. We’re up to ep 6.

It lacks zing and is fairly predictable so far. I probably wouldn’t have bothered beyond the first episode myself, but my wife is enjoying it, so I’m ok with that.

I am enjoying Parker’s portrayal of Sigsby as a sadomasochist though and the powerplay between Sigsby and Stackhouse when they are both tied to the awful shoestring-evil project is the best part of it IMHO.

I am always a little surprised that people are so keen to ‘read’ the plays. People don’t seem to have a similar desire to read film scripts.

To me, the obvious thing to do would be to watch a performance. There are plenty available online and, depending on where you live, stage performances are not too hard to find.

Reading it without seeing a performance lacks about 90% of the impact, I’d say. Reading it AFTER you see a perfomance is another matter: then you can pull out the language and take a deeper dive, but see a performance first.

I was halfway through this and increasingly puzzled before I realised that you are NOT talking about the 1945 Hitchcock film.

I am not familiar with either culture, but I’d guess that he does.

and asked me out on a date again

Was this specifically described as a date? If so, I’d suggest that this is the way in to politely raise this. In fact even if it was ambiguous, it still is the way to do it: “Just so that we are both clear, although I enjoyed meeting you the other night, I don’t want to take things any further than these casual meetings.” or similar. I’m assuming that you did enjoy it - or you wouldn’t be considering another one.

You could restate that you will soon be moving (people can be incredibly selective about what they take in and what they don’t) if you want to - although you shouldn’t need to give a reason if you don’t want to.