What Would Diplo Do?

I only caught this show because James Van Der Beek went on Conan to promote it. The clip looked hilarious and so I set my DVR to record it. You should too. Before this show I couldn't have told you even who Diplo was, so I don't think it matters if you have a clue either. It's the right amount of over the top situations coupled with some seriously off the wall thinking. It even borderlines on the sweet and endearing at times. Some of the things Diplo says make him seem like a modern day Yogi Berra. Seriously, don't take my word for it, go DVR the show and watch it. It's comedy gold and every episode is pretty much a standalone experience worth watching multiple times.

Though never a target demographic for most of his material, I thought I would take a chance on watching James during a late night bout with insomnia. I used to be interested in electronic music back in the days when Frankie Knuckles was still a novelty, but then I got a life. I enjoyed watching the series end-to-end to kill that time, even though the surrounding characters seemed under-developed. I thought Jamar was the most interesting subplot, but wanted a bit more detail which was never explained. It would seem that a coherent plot line is unimportant to this type of satire, but in this case "Diplo is a dope" is well-established by the first episode and unnecessarily beaten to death by the second, and there was little more than that by the final episode. Worst of all, James just can't seem to pull that satire off. Even in the series' most playful moments he seems the least so, weighing down the rest of the cast's performances. Plus, watching unusually long shirtless and pant-less sequences of him led to a lot of fast forwarding. If you are a 40-44 year old woman who just can't get enough of six degrees of separation from Dawson's Creek, than this might be for you, otherwise, watch at your latest convenience.

Not funny to me. It was severely dumb. I was like a Disney sitcom for stupid adults.

Jury's out on this as I'm watching ep 2. Super original and weird. Looks nice, photo and cast wise. Funny at times . I like. Leaning towards 7 stars, But understand the very low reviews too. Reviewer mykle ykle writes " Severely dumb. Like a Disney sitcom for dumb adults" Biggest laugh I had all day . Well done.thanks.

Is that there's only one season!! Would love to see more behind the scenes stuff; would love to see Diplo actually talk about anything as far as references or did it just spring fully written from James Van DER Beek's cranium.