Bless the Harts

I mean, let's take into consideration all the things it has going for it...

• It is created by Emily Spivey, who has written for MadTV, Saturday Night Live, Parks & Rec., Up All Night, Modern Family, The Last Man on Earth, AND King of the Hill(Where she served as a story editor from 2001-2003).

• It is produced by Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, a dynamic duo in both animation and comedy from the underrated MTV gem Clone High, the 21 Jump Street film series, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, The LEGO Movie, The Last Man on Earth, and last year's Academy-Award Winning Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse.

• It stars Kristen Wiig(Who also serves as producer), Maya Rudolph, Ike Barinholtz, and Jillian Bell. All are extremely talented performers(in front of the camera and with voice) with serious range(Especially Wiig who may take on a serious career turn after being Cheetah in Wonder Woman 84 next year). Its guest stars include even Holly Hunter for goodness sake.

• It is set in the same universe as King of the Hill apparently(Mega-Lo Mart), even if its so minor a detail that is a huge attention draw in my book.

...And yet nothing about it works.

First of all the animation is not very good, the movement of the characters is always a bit off. The character designs are not particularly consistent when they should be.

The tone of the humor is all over the place, sometimes its trying to be grounded other times its trying to be pretty outlandish.

The storylines are pretty 'been there, done that' and don't hold enough interest for a half hour.

The characters are not really interesting, they're essentially cardboard cutouts of cardboard cutouts of other better characters that we have seen over and over again, the cast tries to make them fresh but the writing only allows them so far.

As I said before, this should work and be Grade A entertainment, but unfortunately it is a misfire.

This deserves higher than 3. It's relatable realistic and lightly entertaining. I can't wait to see more.

I'm really, REALLY tried hard to watch it and enjoy, but I just realized it's not my cup of tea. I'm a fan of "King Of The Hill" and rewatched it for the 5th time. Suddenly I was looking around for similar shows and this one popped out. It was said that it was loosely inspired on KOTH, perhaps because they've used "Mega-Lo Mart" brand and that's it. And Mega-Lo Mart without Chuck Mangione is like going on a shop and buying for a single shoe.. It's not "natural". May have some music and composer rights around this, but... What the hey?

Then, I realized that I was kinda biased because I was looking forward to see some similar characters and jokes. Once I've noticed that, I've tried to be the most neutral and forced myself to give it a go. But, I've failed. It's good, but every new episode I start to watch, I am still waiting for something that clearly won't happen. And this "missing something" sensation is really awkward because you wait for every minute for something just to realize you've watched the whole two seasons.

When I see Wayne I still try to see Hank. But they're completely different. Violet is like Luanne with that unstable counterculture behaviour: on an episode she's against meat. Some episodes ahead, she's eating turkey. Go figure.

The "doodlely-doo" woman seems to only talk this. It's great to have a catchphrase, but I've listened for about three episodes and got really annoyed.

In some episodes, the attention span was really small. I had to move back some minutes to rewatch and understand things... But the illustration techniques, the soundtrack, the voices are all awesome! Just some stories are a bit off for me yet.

I've tried. This is kinda good, but I'll stick with KOTH.

I think it suck a fun show and deserved a 3rd season why cancelled it fox it better than great north which sucks.

Unlike most of the reviewers, I really liked this show. Its too bad it didn't catch on with more people. I looked forward to Sunday nights to catch the exploits of the Harts, I'll miss it when its over.