One of the best songs ever to appear in this series, I was delighted by "Agree To Disagree", an almost perfect song of its kind. It's a "We Disagree, But..." kind of song, suggesting it could become one of the kind of funny, fun, character-rich, old-school cabaret comedy variety pieces that hasn't had any new material in a very long time.
Alone, it could have made an average episode rate a 7 or 8 out of 10. Little moments - the appearance of a guest star, a silly light- hearted bit the works, any time Gareth is on screen doing something - in every episode of Galavant keep teasing me with opportunities to raise my hopes that the series might actually get better, and "Agree To Disagree", coming early in this episode, raised my hopes tremendously.
But the rest of the episode turns on a sadly below-average device that doesn't work. Literary-ly and literally. The awful jokes in that scene are such stinkers, the only thing that prevents me from calling the consequences of that device failure impossible is that it's only a disappointingly familiar fail moment - not altogether unlikely, when the average episode can only rate a 4 or 5 from me.
But the show insists on reveling in the stale aroma of its meta- winks at old conventions, aiming to delight 8 - 12 year olds, and leaving anyone else who has seen a few parodies before to fight not to roll their eyes, like parents at a junior high school talent show.
Alone, it could have made an average episode rate a 7 or 8 out of 10. Little moments - the appearance of a guest star, a silly light- hearted bit the works, any time Gareth is on screen doing something - in every episode of Galavant keep teasing me with opportunities to raise my hopes that the series might actually get better, and "Agree To Disagree", coming early in this episode, raised my hopes tremendously.
But the rest of the episode turns on a sadly below-average device that doesn't work. Literary-ly and literally. The awful jokes in that scene are such stinkers, the only thing that prevents me from calling the consequences of that device failure impossible is that it's only a disappointingly familiar fail moment - not altogether unlikely, when the average episode can only rate a 4 or 5 from me.
But the show insists on reveling in the stale aroma of its meta- winks at old conventions, aiming to delight 8 - 12 year olds, and leaving anyone else who has seen a few parodies before to fight not to roll their eyes, like parents at a junior high school talent show.
