Everybody Hates Chris (TV Series) Everybody Hates the Pilot (2005) User Reviews

The Pilot Episode is Great

[gamedoctor-58923 · 9/10 · 1 August 2021]

The first episode of this show pretty much perfectly encapsulates the kind of humor and experience you're gonna get for every episode to follow. At the same time giving a pretty good introduction to the main cast of characters along with Corleone Junior High, all of which play major roles for the rest of the episodes in the season which usually involves Corleone, Greg or his family in some way.

So yeah, I think it's pretty good.

It makes me recall my childhood!

[wihtkh · 7/10 · 25 August 2016]

It's been a long time ago that I saw kinds of TV show dealing with an innocent child story. While having this show, I was so busy recalling my missing childhood when I was braver and more active than any friends of mine. In this show, I especially like the scene where Chris and Caruso(perhaps the strongest boys of his friends)continued fighting in words because Chris showed his bravery in front of everyone in the school. Also, I obviously felt as if I were in the show because the story developed with Chris talking about his daily life. Are you exhausted with a busy, heavy- scheduled life? then, I want you to have this show, return to your happy childhood and put aside your stresses for a short time.

Everybody Hates the Pilot

[Prismark10 · 6/10 · 28 January 2020]

I would not say Chris Rock's brand of stand up is original. I did go to a comedy event a few weeks ago and I noticed that a lot of the young comedians seemed to be influenced by his type of comedy.

This first episode is a nostalgic coming of age sitcom, a lot like The Wonder Years. It combines that with Rock's wisecracking narration culled from his stand up act.

Set in 1982, a 13 year old Chris has left the projects to a better area of Brooklyn. One that is going to be the centre of the crack epidemic. He goes to an all white school rather than the one near his new house because his mum does not want him to be a hoodlum who sticks up a liquor store.

At least this is not a warm glow nostalgic show. The young Chris encounters racist bullying, guns that go off at the school near his house and the previous principal of his new school was chased out by the police for reasons the network censors will not allow. At least Chris's father is one of four fathers on the block. He might count the cost of everything but he has two jobs and comes home.

There is a hard edge to the pilot, a reworking of Rock's various stand up gigs. It shows a lot of promise and contained a few good jokes.