This thing got all over the place. One main issue I have is how it tries really hard at drama, kind of gets there, but is so silly in parts that it just doesn't work for this premise. The first episode made me feel like there was going to be gags all the time and had some really good ones, but a lot of what gets used through the series is repetitive. Loads of overly dramatic outbursts, that's a common one. Overall misunderstanding, that's used a lot, the stupid person who can't possibly be that dumb and still function in society without a handler type of stupid. And the one that got annoying and wasn't all that funny was where the character just drops the scene. Basically walks away from dialogue. It got used quite a bit early on and then slowly phased out, but man was that just not funny. The main character just started to seam like a horrible unlikable person at that stage and I started to lose interest in the story line and clearly so did the writers as this premise was seemingly abandoned but kept alive by a very thin thread. The worse part of this show is it clearly had no story beyond the plot that got a pilot made and then the miracle of a subsequent seasons happened. This would have worked so much better as a film with a well worked out story. What I will never understand is how Louie Anderson became the central character in this story considering how crap he was at playing this role, every single time he came on screen I just couldn't help but notice how unconvincing he was playing a woman and clearly this wasn't meant to be a lasting thing, you can tell in the first scene when he was introduced as a character, there is a blooper reel that made the cut, where he drinks and spits out and says "that hit the spot". That entire scene is cut to hell, the dialog doesn't work all that well and it was this early on that I started to wonder what in the world was this all about and the further I get down the line, I realize this was just a lucky break for these guys to get something made and to have work. It really is nothing more than that. The camp gay character that Zach has played many times shows up as his twin brother in this, that was another WTF moment when I saw this, it is written like a skit but is played like an actual dramatic role which is just bizarre. I've gotten halfway through series 3 and thinking holy crap they got 4 seasons out of this!? I'm guessing the only thing that killed this series was a pandemic, because if it survived all the other oddities this thing could have gone on forever.
In the end I liked the premise I just wish it stayed on the rails and had some sort of satisfying conclusion, certainly a premise better suited for film rather than serial dramedy.
In the end I liked the premise I just wish it stayed on the rails and had some sort of satisfying conclusion, certainly a premise better suited for film rather than serial dramedy.