2014 Comedies

squonk

As usually happens at the start of the Summer schedule for me, I look at whats still unwatched on my server and try and catch up seeing as there's less new shows going round. This year I noticed I'd a lot of comedies started but not finished. The one I really stuck with was The Crazy Ones but, alas, that's no more. Others such as Trophy Wife, The Millers, Mike & Molly, 2 Broke Girls, Hello Ladies and Super Fun Night, I'd kind of started but tuned out of.

I've found a lot of recent comedies to be dreadful. Trophy Wife wasn't at all interesting and, to be honest, I find the premise a bit stupid. The Millers, on the face of it, should be good given that it has Margo Martingdale and Will Arnett in the cast but, as Will Arnett vehicles go, I think it pales in cmparision to Up All Night.

While it would be great to get another Frasier or Cheers from the major networks, I can't see it happening at the moment. Perhaps it's my taste but The Crazy Ones was good because it was the best of a bad lot.

The comedies I am greatly enjoying are not network shows, but are subscription services like HBO etc. Stuff like "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia", "Silicon Valley" and "Veep" are brilliant but they've very different from the generic, dumbed down, safe network shows. That said, being a network show was never a barier to shows like Frasier etc from being classics. What do you think? Are network comedies nosediving in quality and are we likely to see anything decent come along the way things are shaping up, or was 2014 a particularly poor year?

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Brooklyn Nine-Nine is absolutely brilliant - takes a few episodes to find its feet (in my opinion) but once it does, it's probably the best comedy out there.

The Goldbergs is also great and criminally underrated - well worth watching.

squonk

Geez, forgot B99 & The Goldbergs! They really were the shining lights this year!

ElNino

I liked Sirens. It is a paramedic version of what Brooklyn Nine-Nine is to cops. Not as good but still enjoyable.

JP Liz V1

I liked Surviving Jack but it was cancelled

jack presley

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

The Goldbergs is also great and criminally underrated - well worth watching.

I only watched the first 2 episodes oft this but couldn't get into it? Is it a grower? Should I go back and give it another chance?

Also Starring LeVar Burton

jack presley wrote: »

I only watched the first 2 episodes oft this but couldn't get into it? Is it a grower? Should I go back and give it another chance?

It certainly got better as the season went on, but I really liked it from the beginning, so hard to say - it might just not be your cup of tea.

Lucas Hood

jack presley wrote: »

I only watched the first 2 episodes oft this but couldn't get into it? Is it a grower? Should I go back and give it another chance?

I was the same but It grew on me big time. Give it another go .

squonk

I liked it from the get go I must say. It's a happy little show. What raises it above the ordinary though is the mother and father. The mother sepectially. It's a great show overall and, actually, all of the cast put in very strong performances.

AnonoBoy

Just started watching Uncle on BBC. Enjoyed the first episode.

It could turn out to be decent.

EdmondShiels3

Watch the Goldbergs.

_Whimsical_

About a Boy was good, not amazing but much better than The Goldbergs I thought, I'm going to revisit it though after it getting all this praise.

Skerries

If you like Veep then you will like Legit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DJy-ibUfco

JP Liz V1

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

About a Boy was good, not amazing but much better than The Goldbergs I thought, I'm going to revisit it though after it getting all this praise.

The lead guy and the kid have great chemistry and work well together

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ElNino wrote: »

I liked Sirens. It is a paramedic version of what Brooklyn Nine-Nine is to cops. Not as good but still enjoyable.

Loved the original UK version, good bit more edgy than this. This series is OK though.

Love Brooklyn 99 and used to enjoy Enlisted until they cancelled it.