In the Flow with Affion Crockett

This show is real close to a David Chappelle show and this actor is very talented. He does a lot of funny skits on this show and a lot of dancing. Not to many can dance like him but that is not the part of the show that I find interesting it is the comedy of it. He touches some topics that needs to be touched along with celebrities appearing on the show. Jamie Foxx produces the show. Not to much can go wrong when you have a talented actor/comedian and Jamie Foxx producing. Do you remember how funny the Jamie Foxx show was? Do you remember how funny Affion Crockett is impersonating people and being funny? Together this makes a good hilarious show.

The show is a terrible Chappelle show wannabe. He tries to make social commentary 'skits' without actually making commentary. It also has the mad TV disease of assuming that simply putting a famous person on the screen is funny. The person is the premise, you then need jokes. Then, to top it all off, the actual imitations he clumsily attempts aren't very good. Having actual celebrity cameos aren't a substitute for entertainment.

There are many bad shows every season that come and go, but this one is offensively and memorably bad. If we needed extra reason to remember that promos are created by advertisers and not to announce a quality product this is it.

I hope this show is canceled almost immediately.

Aside from a couple promising skits, this would have been a 1 star for me. "In The Flow" gives the impression that things progress without being forced and just have a kind of organic appeal to them. But this show is anything but. The jokes come across as forced, and the impressions just aren't done well for the most part. I don't know if the blame should go to the writers or the execution, but this is a show that tries way too hard to be funny, and it falls flat more than it succeeds. I don't expect that it will last more than a few episodes. Perhaps Affion needs to go back to the internet where he was initially discovered. I honestly don't know. It's been mentioned before that this is Chapelle Show lite. That may be too generous a description. Whatever problems may have existed initially with Chapelle Show, the charisma of Dave Chapelle carried it until the problems were worked out. I don't think Affion has it in him to be that likable.