"The Great Indoors" Pilot (TV Episode 2016) Poster

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(2016)

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6/10
Millennials and Laugh Tracks
drostjosh31 October 2016
Do you like listening to laugh tracks make fun of millennials? If so this show is for you.

Joel McHale (Community) spent the most of his life hiking and works for a adventure magazine writing articles about his adventures. This magazine is staffed by a group of diverse yet stereotypical millennials. He now supervises them.

I like Joel McHale, he was great in Community and is why I watched the pilot. His character seems the exact same, but more outdoorsy.

Overall the episode uses every cheap and easy millennial joke possible. Again and again. It is to millennials what big bang theory is to nerds. The jokes did not all catch, the bar scenes seem tacked on, and the pilot seems like the lowest amount of work required to get by, which is fitting as many people think of millennials that way.

However, CBS is good at comedies. While Big Bang and HIMYM were not the most clever shows, they were consistently funny and loved. So this could improve.

I will give the show one more episode. If you have nothing else to watch, or like to laugh at a machine laughing at millennials, give it a try. But as of now it is not a need to watch.
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4/10
Why though?
fball1145 November 2016
Both Joel McHale and Stephen Fry knows what funny looks like. Why did they join this project? Please, I want to know! What am I not seeing? This is like what Community or a modern Fry&Laurie would make fun of, this mindless millennial vs 80s kids laugh track.

It's not BAD, it's just bland. I expected more. Which is funny, as they endlessly tag my demographic for being entitled and bored. Thats, like, the tagline. But this pilot doesn't help me with either. It doesn't contribute to any reflection or understanding, and it doesn't entertain me.

I really hope it gets better. PLEASE, get better. Pretty please, I'll share it on lots of social medias. Like, all of them, i promise, for realzies.
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