[6.0/10] Pretty meager broth. My favorite part of the episode was Deadwood’s Timothy Olyphant as a caucasian sushi chef. He committed to the role, and seeing his steady devotion to his craft and Kevin and Ruxin’s discomfort with the whole thing made for some good laughs. The whole racist angle was pretty tone deaf, but what can you do with this show?
I wasn’t a fan of the Kevin trying to break Jenny’s sex record plot, even if it involved Veronica Mars’s Ryan Hansen. It’s Kevin at his most immature and Jenny being a little meaner than she normally is. The whole bit with Kevin pulling his groin and getting babied at the same time his son is was really contrived.
The paintball bit didn’t do much for me either. Pete’s freeze out was worth a laugh or two, but the show didn’t wring much humor or action out of the paintball setting except for Rafi, whose over the top antics usually manage to find at least a little comedy gold. In this case, it was his whole Gattica thing that got chuckles out of me, in addition to the silliness of the paint knife, but the rest was meh. Andre’s creepy magic was a one-off joke that underwhelmed to boot.
Overall, good performances from a handful of guest stars, but very little worthwhile from the main crew.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParent2019-01-10T18:11:37Z
[6.0/10] Pretty meager broth. My favorite part of the episode was Deadwood’s Timothy Olyphant as a caucasian sushi chef. He committed to the role, and seeing his steady devotion to his craft and Kevin and Ruxin’s discomfort with the whole thing made for some good laughs. The whole racist angle was pretty tone deaf, but what can you do with this show?
I wasn’t a fan of the Kevin trying to break Jenny’s sex record plot, even if it involved Veronica Mars’s Ryan Hansen. It’s Kevin at his most immature and Jenny being a little meaner than she normally is. The whole bit with Kevin pulling his groin and getting babied at the same time his son is was really contrived.
The paintball bit didn’t do much for me either. Pete’s freeze out was worth a laugh or two, but the show didn’t wring much humor or action out of the paintball setting except for Rafi, whose over the top antics usually manage to find at least a little comedy gold. In this case, it was his whole Gattica thing that got chuckles out of me, in addition to the silliness of the paint knife, but the rest was meh. Andre’s creepy magic was a one-off joke that underwhelmed to boot.
Overall, good performances from a handful of guest stars, but very little worthwhile from the main crew.