[5.2/10] Well, this definitely didn’t win me over out of the gate. There’s a lot of defaulting to plain raunch in lieu of doing anything clever with it. The characters are all pretty unlikable in the early going, and act like (not even playful) jerks with one another. And the bro comedy vibe is pretty played out.
The things I liked the least were the tired nagging shrew of a wife routine the show tries to pull, the clear efforts to make Andre a generic butt monkey character, and the general bent toward random vulgar humor whenever a scene needs sprucing up. I didn’t even like Jon Lajoie in this (Taco), an actor I otherwise enjoy from his run internet videos, who’s reduced to standard-issue pothead lothario here.
The few things I did like tended to center around the actual fantasy football elements rather than the lives of the members of the league. Kevin and Ruxin bargaining time on a criminal’s sentence in exchange for draft picks feels like a fun Mr. Show sketch. While a little easy, the group’s draft positions being decided by a little kid sack race was just silly enough to work. And again, it’s not exactly groundbreaking, but Andre’s complete lack of football knowledge and desire to draft retired guys like Keyshaun Johnson was enough to tickle my funny bone.
Still, most of the humor either devolved to raw blueness or sub-Apatow efforts a bro-y busting on another, and The League didn’t have enough charm to make either work out of the gate.
That said, enough folks whose opinions I respect enjoy the show, so I’m going to try to give it some more time to find its voice after a shaky at best first down play.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParent2018-09-12T00:57:03Z
[5.2/10] Well, this definitely didn’t win me over out of the gate. There’s a lot of defaulting to plain raunch in lieu of doing anything clever with it. The characters are all pretty unlikable in the early going, and act like (not even playful) jerks with one another. And the bro comedy vibe is pretty played out.
The things I liked the least were the tired nagging shrew of a wife routine the show tries to pull, the clear efforts to make Andre a generic butt monkey character, and the general bent toward random vulgar humor whenever a scene needs sprucing up. I didn’t even like Jon Lajoie in this (Taco), an actor I otherwise enjoy from his run internet videos, who’s reduced to standard-issue pothead lothario here.
The few things I did like tended to center around the actual fantasy football elements rather than the lives of the members of the league. Kevin and Ruxin bargaining time on a criminal’s sentence in exchange for draft picks feels like a fun Mr. Show sketch. While a little easy, the group’s draft positions being decided by a little kid sack race was just silly enough to work. And again, it’s not exactly groundbreaking, but Andre’s complete lack of football knowledge and desire to draft retired guys like Keyshaun Johnson was enough to tickle my funny bone.
Still, most of the humor either devolved to raw blueness or sub-Apatow efforts a bro-y busting on another, and The League didn’t have enough charm to make either work out of the gate.
That said, enough folks whose opinions I respect enjoy the show, so I’m going to try to give it some more time to find its voice after a shaky at best first down play.