[4.8/10] Woof. You think the show’s already found its lowest lows by this point, but then you have an episode where parents are betting over their son’s circumcision and other members of The League are rating and bartering for dates like it’s the waiver wire. This show can have a certain weightless tone that eases the horribleness of some of this kind of stuff usually, but this felt like too much.
The one thing I can say in favor of this episode is that, unlike a lot of terrible Pete schemes and perspectives, he gets comeuppance for this one when his “waiver wire attribute ranking” rubric is used against him by the girl he’s been pursuing. She’s still barely a character and the shtick with everyone competing for her is pretty retrograde, but it’s nice to see the tables turned on this show for once. Though Taco’s usual kavorka man business and conflating “waiver wire pickup” with “stealing” was lame and lazy.
I continue to be really tired of the constant Andre-bashing. The joke about his head + clothing looking like genitalia got old really quickly, and the whole bit about the group being desperate to find out what his penis looked like was gross. The whole “half-circumsized” reveal is more pointless dumping on the character, and the fact that Shiva’s “pox” results in the same thing happening to Kevin and Jenny’s son is pretty horrible.
Again, the whole thing with them scheming and betting on what happens to their kid’s equipment is pretty awful, and mixing it in with Kevin trying to get Shiva to sign an affidavit saying that their sex was good, or Jenny putting on perfume to impress their pediatrician only makes it worse. Kevin attempting to be the group’s “life commissioner” is a solid idea done poorly, though I do like that the show’s actually addressing how weird and creepy it is for the group’s trophy to be of a person they know, and I’m intrigued by Shiva having had enough of this bullshit and putting a “pox” on The League and the season.
Overall, there’s some mildly promising stuff for the future in this one, but there’s also a lot of tackling ideas in borderline sociopathic ways and thinking it’s supposed to be endearing.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParent2019-01-05T21:50:37Z
[4.8/10] Woof. You think the show’s already found its lowest lows by this point, but then you have an episode where parents are betting over their son’s circumcision and other members of The League are rating and bartering for dates like it’s the waiver wire. This show can have a certain weightless tone that eases the horribleness of some of this kind of stuff usually, but this felt like too much.
The one thing I can say in favor of this episode is that, unlike a lot of terrible Pete schemes and perspectives, he gets comeuppance for this one when his “waiver wire attribute ranking” rubric is used against him by the girl he’s been pursuing. She’s still barely a character and the shtick with everyone competing for her is pretty retrograde, but it’s nice to see the tables turned on this show for once. Though Taco’s usual kavorka man business and conflating “waiver wire pickup” with “stealing” was lame and lazy.
I continue to be really tired of the constant Andre-bashing. The joke about his head + clothing looking like genitalia got old really quickly, and the whole bit about the group being desperate to find out what his penis looked like was gross. The whole “half-circumsized” reveal is more pointless dumping on the character, and the fact that Shiva’s “pox” results in the same thing happening to Kevin and Jenny’s son is pretty horrible.
Again, the whole thing with them scheming and betting on what happens to their kid’s equipment is pretty awful, and mixing it in with Kevin trying to get Shiva to sign an affidavit saying that their sex was good, or Jenny putting on perfume to impress their pediatrician only makes it worse. Kevin attempting to be the group’s “life commissioner” is a solid idea done poorly, though I do like that the show’s actually addressing how weird and creepy it is for the group’s trophy to be of a person they know, and I’m intrigued by Shiva having had enough of this bullshit and putting a “pox” on The League and the season.
Overall, there’s some mildly promising stuff for the future in this one, but there’s also a lot of tackling ideas in borderline sociopathic ways and thinking it’s supposed to be endearing.