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The show started pretty well, managing to provide that warm Bobs Burgers feeling in most of season 1. My husband and I would have a running contest to decide which show put out a better episode that week. But as season 3 rolled around we started to quit episodes in the middle, pause episodes to prep for cringe, and piece together the series of sitcom-decisions that yielded results that feel negligent to portray. For example, theres an episode plot who's conclusion is "If an adult wants to hang out with underaged teens, those teens should let him because he could be lonely." what kind of Michael Scott s*** is that?

The show starts out as a family that cares about itself and its community and it becomes a carefree cohabitation drama, and I hate it. But! Its all cool and fine! Because the child is played by an adult guys! So we dont need to pretend they need to be taken care of anymore! Just so everyones aware, its never okay to talk about or display your sex life to an elementary aged child.

Wolf has pretty much turned into horny (S2) McGucket from Gravity Falls.

And Beef, now having dated every women in town, including his actual wife in a plot line that meant NOTHING. Is now doing an even messier final elimination round of the towns women, settling on both a member of his friend group and a mother of his youngest "childs" friend. And this is all on top of the fact that Beef has just stopped parenting or even looking out for his kids at altogether.

Beefs identity at the start of the show is "Single Dad" and it makes sense because he has 4 children, the oldest of which can barely tie his shoes. So it stands to reason that hes Extremely Present but not overbearing. The balance that they strike initially is pretty perfect. But they spend the rest of the show making Beef more and more selfish and unstable and its honestly destroyed the moral center of the show for me. It is not the job of children to emotionally support their parents. And I think season 1 Beef understood that which is why I liked the show.

I only watched the first episode, but yeah its like 2 narratives shoved together. One of these people thrust into a job they don't necessarily understand. And the other of two awkward babes falling in love. As its own show, i think it wouldve been pretty cool. But as an approximation of the Mr. And Mrs. Smith narrative its terrible and clunky and kind of dumb. The whole point of, at least the movie narrative, is that these individuals are hyper competent and that the only real blind spot they have is each other. But Maya and Donald are kind of green and reckless, putting 2 and 2 together to make 4 but not well. I exhaled through my nose harder at the post-credit season preview than I did the whole first episode.

The reboot prompted me to watch the original for the first time. Which has been..fine. I definitely see why its the institution that it is. This show is the cursed hallmark Christmas special of that show. And the icing on the cake is Anders Keith's performance as David. Ive seen a couple reviews compare him to Sheldon, but there's definitely this Rachel Berry quality to the character that makes him hard to root for or connect with. They threw out all the subtleties in the show, and with them DavidHyde's original performance. In contrast Keiths performance is empty and ham fisted, which would've been fine, if he didnt seem to be in some kind of overacting olympics with every other actor on screen. He had me skipping through scenes for relevant information and bailing on episodes during the rising action. But otherwise, if you just pretend youre watching a Hallmark Fraiser movie or Disney Channel show, its watchable.