As a bar regular the show was brilliant but very contrived

One of the issues I had with the show was how contrived the bar patrons were. There were many moments where I could hear the same "voice' in all of the characters and it just fell flat.

The characters in the bar were real enough. As someone who regularly goes to a dive bar, there is the "old glamour queen who is special people to the owners,' The silent regular in Steven Wright, the gunho political yabberer, and the "Assistant District Attorney" was spot on in the observation that it wasn't that big of a deal.

But their conversations wouldn't fly in a real dive bar. For example the liberal use of the word "F*88T" Maybe one old ugly cranky guy would use that word but it's not one that would be so carelessly thrown around with the constant flow of "hipsters' coming in the way they did.

Bill Burr does a better way of explaining that kind of talk. People who feel that way aren't going to be throwing it around so freely.

And the big red flag was the "So what" attitude of the drinks being watered down. That is definitely not going to fly with hard core daily drinkers. They would be the first ones to notice it. Especially in a bar that doesn't serve mixed drinks.

The idea that they wouldn't sell the place for millions of dollars is also ridiculous. Even if Pete had nowhere to go, millions of dollars would have allowed them to buy Pete a nice condo and let him have the support he needed.

It came across as the sort of writing of someone who has "noticed" the regulars in a bar but writes about them in an inauthentic way. People who are regulars at bars do not like drama. They will ignore people who start up hot conversations and shut them down.