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post #1 of 47
9/22/10 at 11:19am
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Mitch Hurwitz

Will Arnett

David Cross

Peter Serafinowicz

Kerri Russell.

It's not Arrested Development (what is?), but it was a decenthalf hour of television. I always liked wacky Arnett, and he delivers. EAch time Cross and Arnett are on screen it's great. Not perfect, but better than most sitcoms.

Anyone else saw that before it's cancelled by Fox?
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post #2 of 47
9/22/10 at 2:24pm
Pretty uneven, but I laughed enough to give it another couple episodes. All the stuff with Serafinowicz was great. And a nice Arrested Development shout-out.
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post #3 of 47
9/22/10 at 2:33pm
Yeah, uneven but it was just the pilot so I'll see how it goes in the more regular format.
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post #4 of 47
9/22/10 at 2:50pm
I liked it more than I thought I would and most of the jokes hit. Serafinowicz playing the doctor was really funny.
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post #5 of 47
9/22/10 at 5:32pm
I didn't really liked the characters, but liked alot of the callback jokes (espically the one involving the Price is Right).
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post #6 of 47
9/22/10 at 11:33pm
I thought it was terrible. Tone deaf, too cynical to have any heart(This is supposed to be a love story, right?), and Will Arnett and Keri Russell have zero chemistry and I don't get why either were ever attracted to each other.



And I really liked the Arrested Development pilot. After how bad Sit Down, Shut Up was, I'm starting to wonder if it was really Hurwitz that made AD really good.
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post #7 of 47
9/22/10 at 11:39pm
I just...I can't believe the things I was hearing. "I need to be less vain", "Money has never made you happy.", I...it depresses me that there's a show that actually has characters SAYING these things.
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post #8 of 47
9/23/10 at 12:12am
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Originally Posted by Syd View Post
I just...I can't believe the things I was hearing. "I need to be less vain", "Money has never made you happy.", I...it depresses me that there's a show that actually has characters SAYING these things.
"You can't just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel angry!"

Really wasn't feeling this one. The doctor gag was about the only thing I found remotely amusing. I'm willing to give it another episode or two to see if it finds a groove, but this wasn't promising. Definitely doesn't help that Keri Russell's character is the kind of insufferable that only a really gifted comedic actor could pull off, and I don't know if she has the chops for it.
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post #9 of 47
9/23/10 at 1:57am
Serafinowicz barely does anything and he still kills here. The little girl is good. The hovering butler has potential.

A lot of stuff (the Mexican-labor humor, Arnett's character) feels recycled from AD.

Russell's performance is waaaay too straight. Also her hair.

It doesn't help that this is paired with Raising Hope, since the two shows' many similarities expose a lack of originality. I'll give it a couple more shots.
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post #10 of 47
9/23/10 at 11:04am
Well it took me a few to warm up to. I guess I was expecting more AD than I got. But after halfway through I really got into the groove, and I was rolling with laughter.

A little more self-aware than AD, which I tend to hate, but it worked for me this time. With most of my must-see sitcoms having aired, it was definitely the funniest.
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post #11 of 47
9/26/10 at 10:37pm
I've been having a very similar reaction to Arnett the way I'd reacted to the sight of Michael Cera for a while (pre-Scott Pilgrim). And that is: "Still?"

Hahahaha... Sit Down, Shut Up. I found that unbearable to watch from just its pilot. This was much more innocuous, but I wasn't feeling it.
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post #12 of 47
9/27/10 at 4:13am
I really liked it. Maybe because I went in with low expectations (after Sit Down Shut Up and the bad reviews for this), but I found myself laughing out loud a few times. It's not perfect, but it has a lot going for it. Serafinowicz in a regular TV gig, for instance.
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post #13 of 47
9/27/10 at 10:28am
It was quite uneven for a pilot episode, but given that Arnett, Cross, Serafinowicz and Hurwitz are involved, I'm willing to give it another few weeks.
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post #14 of 47
9/27/10 at 12:54pm
Wanted to love it, but I couldn't. The only times I laughed out loud were the sight gags (tiny horse, exploding tent).

Are Cross and Serafinowicz going to be regulars?
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post #15 of 47
9/29/10 at 1:29am
The second episode was better than the first, although they're still finding themselves. Cross felt pretty wasted but all the scenes with Fa'ad were great.
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post #16 of 47
9/29/10 at 1:34am
Oh wow, that was horrible. Like the bad parts of season 3 of AD.
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post #17 of 47
9/29/10 at 1:37am
That bit on the tree house ladder was painfully unfunny.
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post #18 of 47
9/30/10 at 10:22am
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Even Serafinowicz can't save it. He's the funniest thing in this, but my TV time being limited, I'll probably drop it. Such a wasted potential.
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post #19 of 47
9/30/10 at 11:13am
I'm starting to think they caught lightning in a bottle for AD and shouldn't even attempt a movie to try and recapture the magic.
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post #20 of 47
9/30/10 at 11:25am
Wow. What a terrible, terrible episode. I liked the premiere, but this one was awful. I think my biggest problem is that the show is trying to be too sweet. And with Arnett's character being too cartoonish, I just can't buy that juxtaposition. It's awkward and silly and inconsistent. One more. If it sucks I am done.
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post #21 of 47
9/30/10 at 11:28am
I also have to say that the show feels like it has a really inconsistent geography. It feels like the camera is too close or something but it feels disorienting (like each scene is filmed in a different disconnected space) and chopped up.
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post #22 of 47
9/30/10 at 2:16pm
I noticed this in the first scene with Russell and the kid in the treehouse. They cut from a medium shot on her left to a closeup on her right. You can get away with stuff like that in a mock-doc format but here it's just clumsy.

And Russell's pretty, but she just sucks the air out of the room. It's like she's embarrassed to be there. Which I can understand.
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post #23 of 47
10/6/10 at 2:07am
"He was a natural at The Office." was pretty funny. Not so much the KFC product placement.
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post #24 of 47
10/6/10 at 2:11am
Russell loosened up a bit this week. Too bad we likely won't see more of her in Office mode.

Serafinowicz's treasure trail. So disturbing.
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post #25 of 47
10/6/10 at 2:13am
Also is Paul Schaffer the Six Flags guy?
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post #26 of 47
10/6/10 at 4:38am
That was like a bad writer trying to copy the format of an episode of Arrested Development and failing miserably.
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post #27 of 47
10/6/10 at 4:40am
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I noticed this in the first scene with Russell and the kid in the treehouse. They cut from a medium shot on her left to a closeup on her right. You can get away with stuff like that in a mock-doc format but here it's just clumsy.

And Russell's pretty, but she just sucks the air out of the room. It's like she's embarrassed to be there. Which I can understand.
Keri Russell was very funny doing wacky, surreal humor on her stint on Scrubs.
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post #28 of 47
10/6/10 at 5:59am
There were definitely some heavy handed references to Arrested Development. Also agree on Keri Russell being awesome on Scrubs.
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post #29 of 47
10/6/10 at 11:59am
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I'm out.
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post #30 of 47
10/6/10 at 12:10pm
Yeah, that might have been the nail in the coffin for me. I think I only laughed once (Fa'ad's line to Puddle about how she should be out looking for a husband, immediately followed up by his verbalizing that he may have said something inappropriate).
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post #31 of 47
10/6/10 at 1:37pm
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Even Serafinowicz can't save it. He's the funniest thing in this, but my TV time being limited, I'll probably drop it. Such a wasted potential.
And I was right.
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post #32 of 47
10/6/10 at 2:07pm
Enjoyed episode 3 a lot more than 2. I'll be sticking with it. Hurwitz has said he's getting drowned in notes by FOX, wanting the show to have far less complex plots (especially episode 2, which originally had a party with rich people pretending to be hobos, and another party with hobos dressed up as rich people).
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post #33 of 47
10/6/10 at 2:36pm
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Enjoyed episode 3 a lot more than 2. I'll be sticking with it. Hurwitz has said he's getting drowned in notes by FOX, wanting the show to have far less complex plots (especially episode 2, which originally had a party with rich people pretending to be hobos, and another party with hobos dressed up as rich people).
But that actually sounds like possibly good comedy.
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post #34 of 47
10/8/10 at 2:54pm
The third episode was so clearly trying to be AD that it started referencing and stealing its jokes. Yet, I still liked it. The third episode was much better. It was more sly, less obvious and it was the first episode that seemed like it would be better the second time around as a lot of subtle jokes squeezed through.
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post #35 of 47
10/12/10 at 2:23pm
Arnett has been posting on Twitter this week about how the show is in danger of cancellation if they don't improve this week.

I just read that Andy Richter is on tonight, so I'll have to try and catch that episode.

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PW: And who do you play?
Andy: I play a guy at Steve’s Country Club and he comes to me because Puddle is interested in my son, so he has a meeting with me to talk about the kids' relationship. Because Steve had such an absentee father he's so hungry for some sort of parental attention, so he focuses on my character as a possible father figure – not realizing my character is a closeted gay military guy who wants to have sex with him. He misinterprets my interest, which is not paternal at all.
http://www.nypost.com/p/blogs/popwra...HSCigGqxowwtVN
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post #36 of 47
10/13/10 at 2:34am
That was a looong way to go for an Alan Alda impression. Fortunately, it was a FREAKY UNCANNY Alan Alda impression.

Good writing this week, with everyone projecting their own needs onto other people's problems. And they took the "Mom hits on a twelve-year-old" thing about as far as they possibly could. The coverage and editing still distract me though.
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post #37 of 47
10/13/10 at 4:15am
Yeah, that Alan Alda was insane. That alone made the episode worth watching.
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post #38 of 47
10/13/10 at 5:40am
Are we sure it wasn't Alda dubbing in the voice?
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post #39 of 47
10/13/10 at 5:42am
No, Serafinowicz is one talented mofo.
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post #40 of 47
10/13/10 at 9:29am
For those who didn't know Serafinowicz was a vocal magician

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPhsON-DUYQ

For those who didn't know Serafinowicz was a comedy magician

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhgdRiD7R1k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NjTWvl8x-U
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post #41 of 47
10/13/10 at 11:13am
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Good writing this week, with everyone projecting their own needs onto other people's problems. And they took the "Mom hits on a twelve-year-old" thing about as far as they possibly could. The coverage and editing still distract me though.
The obvious coverage issues always bothered me on Arrested Development, too.

Also, the bit with Steve wiping the soap off the small of his back is possibly the dirtiest thing I've ever seen on network television.
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post #42 of 47
10/13/10 at 12:15pm
The whole car washing gag had me laughing out loud and the bit with the soap about killed me.
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post #43 of 47
10/13/10 at 1:33pm
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The obvious coverage issues always bothered me on Arrested Development, too.
AD had the built-in excuse of being shot 'documentary-style', so I didn't mind.
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post #44 of 47
10/20/10 at 1:43am
Fox must be running the episodes out of production order since Emmy had a Chevy Volt product placement last week.
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post #45 of 47
10/20/10 at 1:58am
I can't help but think Bill Lawrence would make the concept of this show rock.
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post #46 of 47
10/20/10 at 4:07am
Hurwitz mentioned somewhere that an episode got pushed back, so yeah it looks like this was the second show produced.

Fa'ad getting attacked by the hawk was the easy highlight. Nice callback to the ham too.

So is that it?
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post #47 of 47
11/10/10 at 7:52am
I think the girl who plays Puddle grew about half a foot in the course of this episode. She'll end up taller than Russell.
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