This is really bad

Since I hate to be the one with vague critique of the show after the first episode, I should probably have some suggestions.

1: Drop the standard three-camera set-up and the audience. Single-camera, no audience, I think that would serve the show much better. No one has been able to use it properly since Seinfeld, and that was only because they were not limited to it.

2: Fire all the writers, get someone who is not interested in making a traditional sit-com. They are cleary not doing the show any favours by making it generic.

3: Lose the sister-in-law. As much as I like Sullivan, she is woefully out of place. Or at least change her Generic-bitch-wife-persona to something less sit-commy.

4: Make the brother not a huge succes. I am not saying to make him a loser, make him anything but a success. Make him a dick, make him the manager of a Dairyhut, make him a bum, anything but a succes. He should not be the opposite of the Son character.


There is something else that I cannot put my finger on that needs to be changed. I fear I might have to give it a second watch to figure it out, but I really don't want to.


All in all, there is nothing here we have not seen a million times before. I predict that it will get 6 episodes. Certainly, it will not last beyond a single season. Of course, that is what I said of both "According to Jim" and "Two and a half Men", some 9 and 7 laughless years ago.



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