Hanson
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I sat through all three episodes of Mulaney with my mouth agape because I cannot understand how such a terrible show can make it to air. If you took out some of the dirty bits, this show feels exactly like a Nickeolodeon or Disney Channel live action show -- half the jokes don't really make any sense, the other half aren't funny, and an obnoxious laugh track punctuates every single failed attempt. It really feels like a misguided remake of Seinfeld tailored for Disney XD. And for a show created by a TV writer, it seems to have no idea how a TV show is made. In the latest episode, Mulaney passes off a notebook full of jokes written by a deceased old neighbor as his own. These jokes make their way on to Martin Short's game show, but Mulaney doesn't know any of them until he hears them at the taping instead of in the writers' room. So Mulaney is a staff writer on the show and yet has no idea what's going to go on the cue cards.
I really wanted to like this show because I've enjoyed John Mulaney's stand up and his stint as a writer on SNL (the only few laughs I've gotten off of the show were during his Seinfeldian stand-up interludes) and Nasim Pedrad was always an underrated cast member there. But this show is one of the worst things I've seen in a while. This show is worse than Sullivan and Son, and that was the worst show I watched regularly. Mulaney is easily worse than that. Mulaney is almost as bad as Henry Danger, but that show is meant for kids who haven't yet developed a sense of humor. Mulaney is so bad the only plausible excuse is that it's a satire of bad sitcoms. Except I'm pretty sure it isn't.
The show's 16 episode order was cut back to 13, so unless some miracle happens, this won't make it past that. It's so bad that I will probably watch every episode to marvel at how awful it is. That's the best way to describe Mulaney -- it is marvelously awful.
I really wanted to like this show because I've enjoyed John Mulaney's stand up and his stint as a writer on SNL (the only few laughs I've gotten off of the show were during his Seinfeldian stand-up interludes) and Nasim Pedrad was always an underrated cast member there. But this show is one of the worst things I've seen in a while. This show is worse than Sullivan and Son, and that was the worst show I watched regularly. Mulaney is easily worse than that. Mulaney is almost as bad as Henry Danger, but that show is meant for kids who haven't yet developed a sense of humor. Mulaney is so bad the only plausible excuse is that it's a satire of bad sitcoms. Except I'm pretty sure it isn't.
The show's 16 episode order was cut back to 13, so unless some miracle happens, this won't make it past that. It's so bad that I will probably watch every episode to marvel at how awful it is. That's the best way to describe Mulaney -- it is marvelously awful.