It takes some big leaps, if you will, and sticks the landing. There are several elements in season one that seem risky - whether they’re plot points, character arcs, or, you know, bringing flash mobs back - but the show manages to pull it all off. For a broadcast show, it makes some ambitious moves and doesn’t seem afraid to be unabashedly itself. There are several great performances going on that add some surprising depth to characters that could easily be one-note, led by Scott Foley, who seems to be having the most fun as Nick Blackburn, the outwardly cynical executive producer of the show who is, deep down (way, way deep down), a softy.
Get on board!) The dancing can be extremely moving. (Of course there is cheese, people - it’s a dance show about second chances. It balances the cheese and the comedy well. Juggling those typically disparate tones, a huge ensemble cast, the show-within-a-show framework, and, yes, all the dancing could easily result in a train wreck, but The Big Leap makes it work.
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It’s an uplifting series about people looking for second chances in life and love, and it’s a cynical, biting send-up of reality TV. It’s a broadcast dramedy about a dance reality show that takes a group of everyday people in Detroit and puts them into a 20-person company to perform Swan Lake. The Big Leap seems like a show that shouldn’t work.
This absolutely should not work, and yet …
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