Originally Posted by My Other Self (Post 11850302)

I really haven't seen MJF in anything in a number of years and although I can appreciate what he's doing here, the fact that I needed closed captioning in some scenes to understand fully what he said was a bit heartbreaking. I enjoyed what I saw but I guess I just need to embrace that this is who he's been for awhile now and have fun with it.

Originally Posted by JoPlease (Post 11849711)

I thought the second episode was much better than the first one.

Originally Posted by JZ1276 (Post 11850875)

Isnt fair to dismiss a show after only a couple of episodes

Originally Posted by Tom Creo (Post 11850937)

You haven't visited the S.H.I.E.L.D. thread, have you.:lol:

Originally Posted by JZ1276 (Post 11850875)

I actually liked the pilot better than the 2nd episode. Anyway, I'll keep watching before I write it off. Isnt fair to dismiss a show after only a couple of episodes, especially when its MJF

Originally Posted by malichai (Post 11849466)

It just wasn't funny, while also being uncomfortable watching MJF. My mother AND my best friend's mother have Parkinsons (what a shit lottery our mom's "won") and that doesn't make it any better for me.

Originally Posted by calhoun07 (Post 11850477)

It's just a tired format. The Office (the original British The Office) pulled it off because it was reasonable to think that a documentary crew would follow them for the six episode arc. The Americanized version just lost the point of the documentary crew. (They really needed 9 years of footage to put together one documentary on PBS? The budget for that documentary would be through the roof for small returns.)

Modern Family does it for no apparent reason. Parks and Rec does it for no apparent reason. Now MJF Show.

It's a concept that needs to go away. It's like the Matrix style effects for TV. Everybody has to copy it but nobody seems to understand what the original purpose was for and it gets old. Quick.

Originally Posted by calhoun07 (Post 11850477)

It's a concept that needs to go away. It's like the Matrix style effects for TV. Everybody has to copy it but nobody seems to understand what the original purpose was for and it gets old. Quick.

Originally Posted by Charlie Goose (Post 11851415)

I haven't watched the two episodes yet, but I do find it somewhat disappointing that they're using the interview gimmick too. It seems like a cop out to write that format instead of dialogue which would accomplish the same.

Originally Posted by JZ1276 (Post 11850875)

I actually liked the pilot better than the 2nd episode.

Originally Posted by JimRochester (Post 11851933)

We just saw this tonite. At the end my wife said "this won't last long". We didn't think it was very good at all. Don't think we laughed once.

Originally Posted by malichai (Post 11849466)

It just wasn't funny, while also being uncomfortable watching MJF. My mother AND my best friend's mother have Parkinsons (what a shit lottery our mom's "won") and that doesn't make it any better for me.

Originally Posted by Dan1boy (Post 11854282)

We didn't laugh once. Couldn't understand 3/4's of MJF's dialogue.

This certainly won't last long. Too bad.

Originally Posted by Supermallet (Post 11854184)

I thought both episodes were painfully unfunny. The show has no teeth at all, outside of Betsy Brandt's sex joke about not having to do all the work herself. There are too many kids that I don't give a shit about (read: all of them), and the sister is even worse. Make the show about Mike, his wife, and returning to work. Everything else is dead weight. And then remember to also make it funny.

Already dropped it from my lineup.