#attic show

[twopoppies]

Wait a damn minute this serie on Netflix happy together in 2018 was based on H?

And he was an executive producer LOL I didn't know it 🤦‍♀️

Well, saying it was based on Harry is a bit of a stretch. It was based on a ridiculous story about Harry that Ben Winston made up and repeated 750,000 times, embellishing it more every time we heard it. But, yes. Here’s my tag for. THE ATTIC SHOW

[ssfoc]

Harry did live with Ben tho idg why fans refuse to accept that like hew cares if he did

Let’s say you, as a famous pop star, live with a friend to whom you give your trust for privacy.

The friend uses you to make his career— directing you in videos, using your friendship and fame. He befriends you because you’re young and anxious, and he seems like a good guy.

He pitches an idea: how about let’s use the time you gave me your trust and discretion, to make us some money, because the world is salacious and you’re a Lothario and people WILL WANT TO KNOW WHO YOU FUCKED.

Oh wait. It’s actually not a mystery. Because the friend’s wife gives an interview to GQ Australia reminiscing about the time she found a blond, leggy, world-famous pop star who was — emphasis— naked in their kitchen. In the time 2012-2013 guess who this was supposed to be? Someone arguably more famous than Harry Styles.

But they have to walk it back because this pop star has a notoriously tight legal team: “the show is not actually based on real events.” Because real life would be too boring. Is it boring to have a naked pop star with initials TS in one’s kitchen? Too boring = too open to lawsuits.

Because when you entrust a “friend” to be discreet because you’re a fucking teenager, with no experience on how industry “friends” work, you don’t think about them pimping your story out, then asking you to EP so it looks like you wanted it.

Let’s not even think about Ben and his wife vicariously enjoying snatches of whatever they overheard from Harry and guests. He was a teenager. Creepy much?

[old1ddude]

I’ve never been happy about Harry’s association with the attic show.  That said, all the discourse I’m seeing on the subject is same old, same old and I’m bored of it.  Not telling anyone else how to blog - just don’t expect to see anything about the show on my blog unless new information, or a truly fresh perspective should emerge.

Also, while I’m not happy about it, I do think the impact/importance of the show ( vis-à-vis Harry’s fan base and career track) is blown way out of proportion, as a rule, on Tumblr.

[ssfoc]

So what was Harry's living situation back on 2013? All those articles seem to contradict each other, did he really lived at his friends'? Why so many people talked about it? What about Louis?

People talk about it because he never lived with Ben Winston for 18 months. Most of that time period, 1D was on tour. Harry was filmed for TIU to show that he was physically in Ben’s House— so he was DEFINITELY, FOR SURE, DOCUMENTED not to be living anywhere else, NOT WITH LOUIS, whom he had publicly shared an apartment with previously, had given parties with in their shared apartment. Harry and Louis have bought / buy real estate as investment. They purchase in areas where real estate value will rise. They use favorable tax laws for foreign owners of real estate, so they don’t have to pay as much taxes on their investment income. That’s why foreign owners have multiple houses in one city— it’s relatively safe, conservative investment income. $90 million is a lot of money to park in a bank (it’s not in banks).

Anyway, here are a few posts about living timelines during that time. I’m sorry that one of them is from Emmie. It was a good post.

https://ssfoc.tumblr.com/post/171811187910/Iftheresnolove-the-living-situation-but-is-so

http://bulletprooflarry.tumblr.com/post/173994045931/timeline-houses-2011-2015-where-exactly-did

http://bulletprooflarry.tumblr.com/post/176737725081/oh-now-it-makes-sense-yeah-absolutely-so-lets

[ssfoc]

I was watching ‘Mom’ on CBS last night and there was a commercial for the ‘not about Harry show’. They showed the ‘Harry’ character accidentally borrowing the wife’s clothes and the wife saying how great they looked on him. Yeah, it’s totally not based on Harry at all. Yuck!

Hair, clothes, Chelsea boots, accent, guitar. He writes a song called, “Something Not Bad.”

[ssfoc]

Not that it matters, but do you find it unusual that Harry hasn’t done one ounce of promotion for his new tv show? I thought if a celebrity was attached to a tv show in any way, they would feel compelled to do some PR for it. Maybe once it’s on the air he’ll show up on the ‘Late Show’ 🤷‍♀️

I think Harry noped out of promo when he started being around Ben and got the general feedback (both from the fandom and maybe from the TV industry). Tbh I don’t know how tv shows are made. I don’t know who oversees quality— if not the producers, then who? Maybe someone more knowledgeable can answer.

I was wondering whether Harry might make a cameo appearance— I suppose if the reception was generally good, he might, just like James did on the pilot episode. But it looks like the show is going to tank fast.

[ssfoc]

Confession - I have watched “Happy Together “ and the actors who play the couple are good and if they got rid of the ridiculous ‘Harry’ storyline, which strangely enough feels like it doesn’t even belong in the script, the show may have actually done better in the ratings.

They are good actors, but there’s virtually no tension or conflict in the storylines for them to “act” to. Comedy has to be uncomfortable, you know? There have to be moments when the tension is built up to paid off in a cleverness and release.

The characters are so bland as to have no strengths or weaknesses— nothing to react to. One of the IMDb comments said, “This is the whitest that a black actor has ever been on television.” Damon Wayans Jr. could be anyone and look like anything. I don’t know why they’re even black— for demographics? Because he has a contract with CBS and has a good track record? To show that black people can be middle class? Everything feels so lukewarm.

Good comedy makes fun of power and arrogance. It laughs up, not down. Even Cooper teaching the older couple to “have fun” is a way of being patronizing to millennials, which people can smell a mile away.

It’s comedy from a rich white dude’s point of view, someone who has never been looked down upon and can’t understand why people don’t find this condescension funny.

[ssfoc]

Not to dwell on “Happy Together”, but I meant that if they actually rewrote the entire script and premise of the show and completely got rid of the ‘Harry’ character and storyline and focused on the couple, the show may have had a chance. But Ben was so use to using Harry and 1D he thought it was a given winner.

Yup.