[4.1/10] Hoooo boy. So this is the best The League can come up with: ALS jokes, pubic hair jokes, pedophilia jokes, and yet another excuse for Ruxin’s “friends” to lust after and take advantage of his wife. Yeesh.
The only thing that saves this one even a little is the actual, titular near death flex-perience materials. Greg Jennings does a surprisingly good job as an angelic vision to Kevin when he nearly runs into a truck. And the follow-up, with Jenny being upset that she got loving welcomes from her family rather than fantasy football advice in her near death flex-perience, is a good beat to end that plot on. And I’ll cop to laughing at some of the puerile wordplay around Taco’s pubic haircut business.
But man, everything else is just the pits. The rape humor in Pete being shaved by his new younger girlfriend is worse than tasteless; it’s utterly unfunny. The whole “caring comrade” bit with a pervy ALS patient who jokes about Andre having cancer is throwing in every tasteless thing you can think of into a bit while forgetting to have actual jokes. And Ruxin getting hassled for texting while driving and being mistaken for having lewd images of a child is more contrived crassness for the sake of crassness.
Taco’s latest scheme is one of the most implausible, but at least it has a sort of absurd logic to it. The rest is just the usual meanness/shock humor with nothing approaching a laugh underneath it.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParentSpoilers2019-09-20T21:54:23Z
[4.1/10] Hoooo boy. So this is the best The League can come up with: ALS jokes, pubic hair jokes, pedophilia jokes, and yet another excuse for Ruxin’s “friends” to lust after and take advantage of his wife. Yeesh.
The only thing that saves this one even a little is the actual, titular near death flex-perience materials. Greg Jennings does a surprisingly good job as an angelic vision to Kevin when he nearly runs into a truck. And the follow-up, with Jenny being upset that she got loving welcomes from her family rather than fantasy football advice in her near death flex-perience, is a good beat to end that plot on. And I’ll cop to laughing at some of the puerile wordplay around Taco’s pubic haircut business.
But man, everything else is just the pits. The rape humor in Pete being shaved by his new younger girlfriend is worse than tasteless; it’s utterly unfunny. The whole “caring comrade” bit with a pervy ALS patient who jokes about Andre having cancer is throwing in every tasteless thing you can think of into a bit while forgetting to have actual jokes. And Ruxin getting hassled for texting while driving and being mistaken for having lewd images of a child is more contrived crassness for the sake of crassness.
Taco’s latest scheme is one of the most implausible, but at least it has a sort of absurd logic to it. The rest is just the usual meanness/shock humor with nothing approaching a laugh underneath it.
Overall, a big fat feh.