Mr. Robinson

Craig Robinson is a musician leading a funk band playing in a club. He gets a substitute music teaching job to try to win over his ex Victoria Wavers (Meagan Good). It starts off as nothing to him but he soon finds satisfaction in teaching the kids and making friends with some of the other teachers.

I love Craig Robinson and I wish this show isn't so bad. The writing is horrible and all of Craig's charisma can't save it. In fact, Craig is more of a crutch for the show. This school sitcom is easy familiar territories. I think Craig could make that work if he's given the material. The kids have no standouts. The music is a waste of time and only brings the show to a grinding halt. The familiar school teacher sitcom does lead to a couple of smirks but it is no more than that. The show is too uneven and awkwardly unfunny at times.

Love the music by Craig! Love the diversity on this show. And it's okay for the family to watch as the sexual innuendo is funny and clever but not terribly overt. Craig is a teacher who cares about the kids he teaches and enjoys his music career with his brother, who also is Craig's roomie. A good hang with enough craziness to laugh at. Plus the principal used to be on Friasure as Roz, so she is pretty funny. Most of the supporting cast are no names but pretty good. Why can't there be more shows out there like this just about decent people trying to do something good and have some fun here and there with a side hustle?

The show is mildly funny, but Craig Robinson could do better. The show format is regressive, it feels like something that would have been made 10 -15 years ago - complete with the male Asian character that is effeminate and constantly ridiculed.

According to IMDb, the only writers listed are white. Not surprising. With Aziz Ansari, Mindy Kaling, shows like the great but canceled too soon Outsourced, aren't we passed all this? The two writers do look like the type of douche bags that would have picked on Asian kids in high school (dude, hi-five bro!)

The show started out funny and promising when it was all Craig Robinson making music. Then they introduced the rest of the cast and it got dumb real quick.

Again, this show is racist towards the Indian character on the show.

I tried to give this show a fair chance, but this is ridiculous! I am tired of seeing these shallow, chauvinistic shows with implausible casting choices! ON WHAT PLANET DO WE BELIEVE THE MEAGAN GOOD COULD POSSIBLY BE A LOVE INTEREST FOR CRAIG ROBINSON! LET ALONE THAT THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THE SAME AGE! TIRED OF SEEING THIS CRAP! TIRED SEEING THE DOUBLE STANDARD ON TV/MOVIES. We are really supposed to believe all these homely, overweight men have model/actress girlfriends 10-20 years younger than them! YEAH RIGHT! The premise of musician turned teacher has been done before too. Try something original. I usually like Craig Robinson, but here he just annoyed me!

The series got a huge potentials ,, the idea of the show isn't that genuine but the plot is tight and entangled properly and the script looked okay , had a couple of laughs and some giggles ... Owen Ellickson and Jonah Platt are a couple of young writers yet they had their share of writing some episodes on TV like The office and Family guy .. and i think with a full-on new show they will do just fine.

As for the cast; Craig Robinson is a fine good funny actor but here i felt he faded away a bit in the comedy and added a touch of the romantic honest man ,,. to be more fair, the performance of Tim Bagley, Brandon T. Jackson and the kids Ethan Josh Lee and Dante Brown were much more funnier and engaging in the comedy script.

So overall, NBC made a good first choice on airing the show .. but they really need to be careful , because this is no where near the best sitcoms on the network and i don't know if they have chosen it just as a summer preparation gap for the Sep/Oct Hit shows but if they want it to survive i think they need to step-up their game and their script to have more and more comedy bits.