Three sitcoms debuted on Tuesday, and all of them were terrible. Who decided that comedies needed to be unfunny with unlikeable people?
First was Abbott Elementary, on ABC. It was about a grade school and the teachers and employees were absolutely helpless. I watched 10 minutes and gave up.
Then there was American Auto on NBC. I did get through the entire half hour, but didn't laugh once and won't return. It was like The Office but about a small car manufacturer. The entire episode was about giving a certain employee more benefits.
Last was Grand Crew, also on NBC. I watched 5 minutes, couldn't make heads or tails of it, and stopped watching TV altogether and read the rest of the evening.
I have to give credit to the producers of How We Roll, a new CBS series about a man who decides to become a professional bowler. The episodes are about his becoming a pro and about his family. It's a working-class family comedy about a topic we haven't seen before. (The only show I can think of that regularly featured bowling was The Flintstones!)
There's something "off" about the show but I can't put my finger on it. I laugh only a few times each episode. Is it the fact that I've gotten so used to people looking perfect on TV, even if they're poor? The characters on this show are ordinary looking and wear clothes that are not necessarily in style. And their house looks like it needs to be updated. Maybe these are good details and I'm just too picky?
Buried in Barstow was violent, depressing and on Lifetime, and had a cliffhanger ending. You know what? I LOVED the show! Even my mom watched it with me!
It's about a woman who was a runaway teen prostitute, got hired to be an assassin, got pregnant, and then fled Las Vegas to run a diner in Barstow, California. Her daughter is now 19. Then the woman is hired to kill another man, who turns out to be her daughter's father.
It was a two-hour movie on a Saturday night in late spring. I don't know when the next episode is scheduled to air; from what I read on the Internet the sequel hadn't even started filming as of two weeks ago.
I hope the collection of TV movies will continue, as I was very intrigued.
I have to give credit to the producers of How We Roll, a new CBS series about a man who decides to become a professional bowler. The episodes are about his becoming a pro and about his family. It's a working-class family comedy about a topic we haven't seen before. (The only show I can think of that regularly featured bowling was The Flintstones!)
There's something "off" about the show but I can't put my finger on it. I laugh only a few times each episode. Is it the fact that I've gotten so used to people looking perfect on TV, even if they're poor? The characters on this show are ordinary looking and wear clothes that are not necessarily in style. And their house looks like it needs to be updated. Maybe these are good details and I'm just too picky?
It has been cancelled. Just too many unlikable characters for me. And as someone who bowled in tournaments, not very convincing.
Dark Winds on AMC is a physically stunning show, but a little hard to follow because there are so many characters and I am not sure how everyone is related to each other, not just actual kinship but just how they know each other.
It takes place in 1971 on the Navajo reservation in New Mexico. The show is filmed on location. Some scenes look like Monument Valley (a place I have wanted to visit for a long time).
The story is about the police chief and his deputies trying to solve several gruesome murders and missing persons cases. Obviously, the show is very intense at times.
I am quite involved in it and even my mother has watched parts of it with me. I recommend Dark Winds but it is not for children.
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