[9.0/10] I’ve already mentioned that what I really love about this show, beyond the banter-y style of the gang and the boundary-less material it covers, is the editing. It’s such a subtle thing, but the music and the cut from Mac and Charlie talking about taking a little money out of Frank’s account to the pair in a limousine surrounded by women is just a perfectly-timed reversal.
The whole notion of the episode, that the gang takes some hair-brained idea to the most extreme direction possible really worked. Dennis and Dee thinking they’ll have it easy on welfare, only to get addicted to crack was so out there and absurd that it couldn’t help but work on the sheer chutzpah of it alone. There was great acting from the pair, a particular enjoyable smugness when they were jamming to “Just a Friend.”
Charlie and Mac were great too, between their awkward conversations and search for a “slave” to do the dirty work at the bar, and their high on the hog living once they tapped Frank’s account. Frank being the “father figure” and not doing right by his hard-working welfare-subsidized employees had its moments as well.
I was told this was a show at terrible people, and despite some ostensible punching down here, I appreciate that the joke is almost always on the main characters for their gormlessness and myopia. It pays off, and the rhythms of the show help that sort of humor land.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParent2017-04-03T20:59:42Z
[9.0/10] I’ve already mentioned that what I really love about this show, beyond the banter-y style of the gang and the boundary-less material it covers, is the editing. It’s such a subtle thing, but the music and the cut from Mac and Charlie talking about taking a little money out of Frank’s account to the pair in a limousine surrounded by women is just a perfectly-timed reversal.
The whole notion of the episode, that the gang takes some hair-brained idea to the most extreme direction possible really worked. Dennis and Dee thinking they’ll have it easy on welfare, only to get addicted to crack was so out there and absurd that it couldn’t help but work on the sheer chutzpah of it alone. There was great acting from the pair, a particular enjoyable smugness when they were jamming to “Just a Friend.”
Charlie and Mac were great too, between their awkward conversations and search for a “slave” to do the dirty work at the bar, and their high on the hog living once they tapped Frank’s account. Frank being the “father figure” and not doing right by his hard-working welfare-subsidized employees had its moments as well.
I was told this was a show at terrible people, and despite some ostensible punching down here, I appreciate that the joke is almost always on the main characters for their gormlessness and myopia. It pays off, and the rhythms of the show help that sort of humor land.