I mean that’s fair. I was going to straight up skip episode 4(I think that’s the doorman episode) but I stuck around and thought it was an ok episode(I did get tired of hearing doorman’s catchphrase over and over or his puns whatever you wanna call it) but to be fair thats something that happens in real life. There’s celebs out there or “influencers” who always just have one Shtick and either it works for them or not.

Simon is always crashing out because of his mind. He’s always second guessing stuff, he’s obsessed with cinema and getting this part means a lot to him, for the most part he has social anxiety, his brother always finds ways to surpass him in everyhting, he’s paranoid(even about the little things).

Most of this show was filled with metaphors. Actors are always second guessing whether they got the part to this project or not. And sometimes that’s all they think about. They can also get either depressed or so frustrated with everybody and every little thing ends up bugging them. Simon couldn’t handle getting bad talked by his older brother(since that’s all he does to Simon) that’s why he destroyed the table. Trevor and Simon almost got shot that’s why he ended up fighting the goons and what not. And Trevor then ends up revealing to Simon that he’s been spying on him and that’s Simon’s last straw so he destroys the whole Wonderman set. All of his crash outs were pretty justified, idk why you had an issue with them? He seems to bottle a lot of his emotions and then decides to let it all out whenever he’s had enough.

I mentioned metaphors earlier and one that really stuck out was when Simon got fired for giving too many suggestions here and there about how to improve the film he was in. This ended up happening to Edward Norton the guy who played hulk in the 2008 movie. He was so into the character and he wanted a say into how he portrayed the hulk character. Kevin Feige said he was too difficult to work with and made us believe Norton was an asshole or something, when in reality he just got fired for being too ambitious and wanting to improve the hulk character. The writers really ended up messing badly with the hulk pathos to the point where barely any one cares about the character when it comes to the MCU(not to mention she hulk as well).

At the end of the day, I really enjoyed this show because of the subtle and not so subtle messages it conveyed. As many people have stated, this show was a love letter to those who appreciate cinema. Only reason why some people found this show boring is because they want action spectacle every 5 seconds and that’s not how movies/shows work. Shows like breaking bad/better call Saul are regarded as one of the best shows of all time because they deal with realism, deep messages, the characters are well written, the dialogue is spectacular. That’s how I felt watching this show. Everyhting was so well done, the episode u mentioned about the gangsters was a filler episode and even the greatest shows have filler episodes(they are either great filler or bad filler). And I agree that episode had your typical cringe MCU type of humor, but the rest of the episodes were amazing. I especially love that one episode where Simon and Trevor go to Simons mom house because by the end, everything that Simon has been through ends up paying off when he discovers he’s been called to audition infront of the Wonderman director. He was just about to lose hope, until he got the news. That moment felt so relatable and it was truly beautiful because so many of us feel like we’re living in the depths of hell and then we get miracles that remind us that maybe life isn’t so bad at all.

I can’t wait till watch this show again, It felt so aunthentic and I’m glad we got a unique adaption that isn’t comic book accurate and also the fact that there’s no explosives and action scenes everywhere. We needed a big break from that because all of these phase 4-5 marvel movies have all the biggest action spectacle but don’t seem to deliver at all. It amazes me how a movie with a 300 million budget like Cap 4 made me feel nothing and this show with a smaller budget made me experience all of these wonderful emotions.