Moai heads - only good thing about the show

The ML collects Moai heads and looks like one himself. It's a great visual joke, and also plays on stereotypes and expectations: he is so macho and virile, but has fertility issues. He appears to be the silent mysterious type, but is actually cute and corny. He also puts the Moai head figurines in a circle and has conversations with them, seeking advice for his love life. It's a great running gag.

The rest of the show is boring and messy, and fails to convince it takes any of its premises seriously: not the fertility issues, and not the romance. Not women's lives in the workforce either. The pediatrician is a terrible character who has no love for anyone, just all around angry and mean spirited. I've seen this trope before: childhood friends who are sort of mean to one another but really like each other. I don't like the dynamic, but have seen it done better. Here it makes no sense. And he's just genuinely not nice to anybody, about anything, ever. It's unfortunate, because I liked the actor in "Because This Is My First Life."

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