What a trippy flashback! Frank used to live an odd life just as he does know (or then, considering this episode is from 2011). I definitely dig the whole '70s vibe, the Shadynasty/Shady Nasty joke (I also read it as the latter, as I'm sure most of us have) and, as usual, this show's freestyle of a kind of an innocent racist and misogynistic innuendo.
19-year-old Frank is hilarious :rofl:
[6.3/10] Not bad exactly, but just not as fun or outside the box as a format-bender ought to be. I appreciate the attempt to parody various films from the 60s and 70s, and the goof of having Danny DeVito and Jon Polito play their prior selves in wigs, but the laughs just weren’t there. The episode also had minimal amounts of the rest of The Gang, whose banter often props up even meh storylines. To the point, their commentary and skepticism about the whole thing was the funniest part of this.
That said, we did get a great comedic turn from Lance Reddick as Reggie here, And it’s always fun to see DeVito go whole hog on the physical comedy stuff (his smushing food into his mouth should have grown tiresome, but maintain its absurd comic charms for the most part).
Overall, you hope for more when the show breaks from its usual formula, but there’s some decent moments here. It’s just not quite specific enough to be a good spoof, and not consistently funny enough to be a more general, farcical pastiche.
Shout by Lars SievalVIP EP 7BlockedParent2018-05-09T17:16:03Z
Lance Reddick showing up in Sunny? Never ever saw that one coming.