2x10 High School Reunion

[5.1/10] Everyone on this show is terrible, and not in an amusing way, in a cartoonish, “you’re supposed to like these bros” sort of way that I just can’t jibe with. Let’s take it character by character.

Peter is running a competition to determine whom his worst former classmate is so that he can use their insulting nickname for his last place fantasy football league trophy. He also breaks a guy’s car window and puts a used condom on his steering wheel. Terrible.

Kevin orchestrated a demeaning listing for Andre in the reunion book, and is the one who originally did the window/condom routine to Peter, and lied to his friends about it.

Ruxin has managed to find someone douchier than him, but basically only attends the reunion to conspicuously show off his wife’s physical attractiveness.

Taco sneaks into other people’s homes to have sex on their furniture and spies on other people having sex so that he can capture their “vinegar strokes.”

And Andre, who’s mostly the victim of the other folks’ terribleness, still participates in busting on Ruxin for dating larger girls in high school.

This is all just entirely awful, and very little of it is funny. The fact that it all snowballs into an unbelievable sequence where Ruxin is sleeping with his wife backstage and is seen by a conga line of his classmates and chekov’s bull mascot is sheer nonsense. This show isn’t rooted in anything beyond caricature and exaggeration, and it doesn't have the talent or poise to pull that off.

Overall, this is a new low for the show, with the only redeeming qualities being guest turns from Martin Starr who’s fantastic as always, and a returning Shiva, who at least managest to get one over on this pack of douchebags. At least Peter gets it right at the end, they are all the worst.