micah1814's reviews

I never watched this series during its original run, and I have been binge watching the series on Hulu from Season 1. It's a pleasant, fun series-I wouldn't have made it through 6.5 seasons otherwise. But the writing and storylines are consistently burdened with cliches and manufactured drama. This episode, however, is top-tier-smart, plausible, and a clear step forward in the arc of Tony snd Angela's relationship. If the writing had been consistently this good, Who's the Boss? Might have beenup there with Cheers and, dare I say it, The Golden Girls. Light, Danza, and Helmond are great actors. Here the material matches them.

I'm late to the party, but after viewing this film for the first time, I think it's remarkable. The casual tone, the fun appropriation of modern pop hits, the breezy comedy, the reworking of the plot to address women's issues-all of it is remarkable.

Camila Cabello has major comedy chops-it's difficult to believe this is her first acting role. The rest of the cast is goofy and charming. The acting and writing is schmaltzy in places, but to paraphrase one of the characters, "It's A-frican musical!"

Anyone who doesn't find it great fun when the ladies at the ball break into "Whatta Man" is too jaded for me. There's a million perfect little moments like that here, and I'm a much happier person than I was before I started watching it.

I truly don't understand the one-star reviews, unless they reflect a group project from the 2021 Incel Convention.

This movie is GREAT.

This is a typical amusing episode, but one scene steals the show: when a sick, grumpy Lester overuses the tiny "summoning bell" Sandra gives him to call Mary, she loses her mind and mutilates the bell with a sledgehammer. It's not original, but the staging and Marla Gibbs' commitment to the act of violence is off-the-charts hilarious.

Allison Janney nabbed all of the Emmy nods, but this episode in particular shows how much Anna Faris deserved her share of attention. Her character is sick the entire episode, and she manages to play miserable and hilarious at the same time. There's some Lucy-level physical comedy, and the closing joke is a master class in comedy timing.

This entire series is such a revelation. (I didn't see it first-run.) "Mom" upside down is "wow."

I liked the live episode. It was cute and edgy in the way the original series was.

To refute the earlier review, there is NOTHING political about vaccines and masks. They work as a way to reduce the spread and severity of disease, and it makes sense to require that for a studio audience take these precautions and address the issue in a self-aware way, as the series has ALWAYS done.

You can't manufacture political outrage over a public health measure and then claim the people following those measures are the ones being political. You can, however, interject politics into a sitcom episode review and be a hypocrite about where politics belong and don't belong.

I really want to like this show. I love pleasant, quirky sitcoms, and I love coffee and cats. However, the first episodes were rough.

This fourth episode is just good enough to keep me hopeful. Still some really flat jokes, but the actors are hitting their stride. The therapy session held some unforced poignancy.

Mayim is settling into her role. It was like she was reanimating herself after having to portray Amy Farrah Fowler for eleventy-billion seasons, and now she's worked off all the excess energy.

I'm sticking around.

I don't post a lot of reviews, but I couldn't bear seeing all the 1/10 reviews.

I will concede that the first couple of shows were clumsy (in a bad way) and Amy seemed to be straining for the humor. Then, I felt a shift. She developed an on-camera rapport with her husband that worked, and the show became endearingly goofy and proudly amateurish.

As for the other negative comments-can we stop grousing about rich people not hiding their privilege? It's none of your damn business why they still have a live-in nanny.

And Amy is not trying to upstage her husband-she is the reason for the show. If they were legitimately trying to produce a cooking show, yes, I could understand the frustration. But I think your focus is misplaced if you're annoyed that the titular star keeps saying stuff on her own show.

My one negative comparative comment is that Trisha Yearwood, who isn't a professional comic, is WAY funnier than Amy. (She's also not a chef and has more interesting recipes than most of the pros on Food Network, so there's that.) You don't have to pick between being funny and having a real cooking show.

But for what it is, the show works. It was a bright TV spot for me in the pandemic. Watching other families going a little off the rails in confinement at the same time as me was comforting.