Package Deal

I wish I could like this show but I just can't. It looks very good and the quality of the picture, sound and so on is of the level that you would expect of a U.S. based sitcom so that is good. After that I can't exactly put my finger on it but I think it's just the overall combination of things and the overall show that just doesn't work and just isn't funny. I'm sure the actors are good in other things but in this I just don't really identify with any of the characters and I don't think any of them are very funny. The one brother is just a whiny mess which I didn't find very funny in episode one but it just gets more annoying the more you watch it. Harland Williams the other brother has some pretty funny lines and I think about the only funny lines in the show but I think that has more to do with Harland Williams being a very funny person who is just naturally funny. I don't think the leading couple are very funny or interesting. I think the biggest problem is probably bad writing because no matter who the actors are I don't think the lines I'm hearing are very funny and the weekly plots and secondary stories are not very good.

I'm really not a fan of Package Deal at all, at least not yet. I have watched the entire first season. I think so anyway, I maybe have missed an episode or two without realizing it. The laughs are very forced with the laugh track incredibly overused and obnoxious. They basically use the laugh track after every single line, and not only do they use it but the laughs are always way over the top with how big, loud and long they are. Most shows don't use the canned laughter so often or so loudly, plus it also seems to stick out because frankly the lines are not that funny. This show has some very poor writing in my opinion. Of course let me stress that that's just my opinion, and everyone has to judge for their own self if a show is funny or good. I will tune in again for the beginning of season two but if they lose me I won't force myself to continue watching. One season was enough of a chance to give a show and I have been mostly disappointed so far.

I think I have watched every episode of this first season and will try to watch it again if a second season comes out but so far this show is just OK at best. Everything about it seems like it should be right, they have a very funny sidekick type Kramer character in Harland Williams who I think is hilarious. Everything "looks" like it should be a good show. I'm not sure what the problem is but it just is not funny. I have chuckled a few times and mostly just at Harland Williams who is just naturally funny. Most of the time I'm just confused by the show and not getting why they are doing the jokes they are doing, surprising to me a lot of the time the show and characters don't even make sense. I hope season two turns it around but if not this show isn't terrible but could be easily replaced.

I thought this show would be good and it should have been good. Harland Williams is a very funny actor and comedian. His parts in There's Something About Mary and Dumb and Dumber are two of the funniest parts of those movies. Maybe the problem is he is supposed to be more of a one off character who comes in and is hilarious then leaves instead of being a character who has a show built mostly around him. He is still funny but the show is just stupid. I don't like any of the characters including him and none of the story is believable at all. The jokes are all predictable and just plain not funny. I don't think this show has made me laugh even one time. This is a pitiful show and everyone watching it and Harland Williams deserve better.

My Canadian tax dollars helped fund this mess. I want a refund. Airing at the same time, 'Seed' was fabulously funny and was so much better written with much better actors and actresses. It really annoys me that even yet, Canadian shows have to pretend to not be Canadian to sell to Americans. American shows filmed in Vancouver or Toronto are acceptable to audiences south of the border to folks who live in homes that have wheels. Stop doing this !