Hard to watch without the noise — and the noise is loud
I'll be upfront: I didn't finish this one, and the reasons are both personal and circumstantial.
The off-screen situation surrounding SmartBoom made it genuinely difficult to watch without that context bleeding in. The allegations around Boom, and Smart's very public legal dispute with WeTV — including his own accounts of difficult working conditions on set — create a weight that's hard to set aside, even when you try. Whatever the full truth of those situations is, SmartBoom as a pairing no longer exists in this form, and that shapes how the series feels in retrospect.
As for the show itself: the intimate scenes worked well enough, but the chemistry between the leads only partially landed for me, and the story never gave me a reason to stay. I'd already struggled to connect with the source material in its animated form, and the live action didn't change that. Sometimes a story and a viewer just don't find each other, regardless of how it's made.
I don't think this is necessarily a bad series — it's more that it wasn't for me, on multiple levels.
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