[4.4/10] This was pretty rough. I like the theme of pressuring young kids with massive expectations and thereby screwing them up, but the show didn’t get much good out of it. All the flashbacks/flashforwards were pretty on the nose. The multi-cultural “go back to where you came from” meeting had a solidly subversive presence, and some decent banter, but felt like it never quite got around to articulating the point it was trying to make or nailing the comedy down.
Similarly, I loved the premise of the “basketball recruiters recruit little kids” but there was zero energy to the sketch, and all the gags were one-note. I know David Cross’s fart jokes were meant to be a sort of meta-parody of that kind of humor, but it just got to be tiresome. And the only funny thing about Odenkirk’s follow-up was the amusingly contrived sitcom scenario in which his talent for flatulence would be useful.
Overall, very few laughs in this one, and some clever premises that were squandered.
Shout by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParent2018-07-12T20:38:49Z
[4.4/10] This was pretty rough. I like the theme of pressuring young kids with massive expectations and thereby screwing them up, but the show didn’t get much good out of it. All the flashbacks/flashforwards were pretty on the nose. The multi-cultural “go back to where you came from” meeting had a solidly subversive presence, and some decent banter, but felt like it never quite got around to articulating the point it was trying to make or nailing the comedy down.
Similarly, I loved the premise of the “basketball recruiters recruit little kids” but there was zero energy to the sketch, and all the gags were one-note. I know David Cross’s fart jokes were meant to be a sort of meta-parody of that kind of humor, but it just got to be tiresome. And the only funny thing about Odenkirk’s follow-up was the amusingly contrived sitcom scenario in which his talent for flatulence would be useful.
Overall, very few laughs in this one, and some clever premises that were squandered.