Kevin Can F**k Himself (2021–2022) User Reviews

Yes there is a laugh track. It is part of the story.

[Nightmarelogic · 8/10 · 21 June 2021]

Honestly the one star reviews are from people who haven't actually watched the show or more then likely watch tv while multitasking. This is actually rather clever. Even the laugh track in Kevin's idealized sitcom world laughs mostly for him and might give his put upon wife a few chuckles. But this bright and shiny world belongs to Kevin. Its a world where he gets to be a man-child with no repercussions.

Then it switches to what Allison sees. A world of shadows and darkness where she wonders why she put up with Kevin for so long. But to her the marriage is still salvagable until she finds out that Kevin spent all their savings on sports crap and didn't tell her. The first two episodes are Allison starting to see the cracks in her marriage and her coming up with a general plan to kill Kevin because it is easier then divorcing him. But also looking for someone to listen to her while she rants even though most of the people she talks to try to give her advice (good and bad) that she does not want to hear.

This is the story of what happens to that sitcom wife when she gets tired of playing the "boring one" in her husband's fantasy life. Kevin may be the star but the story is about Allison. Everyone giving it one star is either being overly harsh or watched until the first laugh track and then shut it off thinking the show was stupid.

Wonderfully original. Annie Murphy is hypnotic to watch.

[peacefrog-62091 · 8/10 · 28 June 2021]

WOW, what a great idea. Time to turn the tables on those sitcoms of yesteryear where the lead character is a "lovable" manchild who married above his weight and the only way the wife gets back at him is with wisecracks.

What would it have been like had Alice Kramden, for example, started contemplating killing Ralph and beginning a new, better life? Simply genius as is the switch between the multi camera with laugh track when she's with Kevin to the single camera shots when she's taking the lead in her own life.

Annie Murphy is so talented and charismatic; this is the perfect vehicle for her. Her screen presence is so powerful. It's just a pity that some viewers apparently don't know what's going on here: the satire of the sitcom wife and the harsh realities and drama of the effect that such a life, if real, would have on the psyche of that person. Absolutely brilliant. Hope this lasts.

Found this by accident and was pleasantly surprised

[eXtra_sauce · 8/10 · 21 June 2021]

I stumbled across this after flipping through the channels. The cold open was absolutely cringe AF and had it not been for Annie Murphy, I definitely would've kept channel surfing. However, I figured with her on the show, there must be more to it than what the cold open was presenting. Boy, I was not prepared for the turn it takes, making those cringy AF sitcom scenes make perfect sense. I'm only two episodes in, but I'm quite enjoying it. So if you bailed during the cold open of the premiere and thought "Nah", I'd say give it a second chance and let it play out a bit more!

I think you're missing the point...

[kyledzintars · 9/10 · 26 June 2021]

I see people on here writing about the "laugh track making up for bad jokes," but that's literally the point. The "comedy" portion of the show is over the top on purpose to show the viewer the messaging women receive from society and the expectations they are demanded to abide by. It isn't supposed to be funny and if it is to you, that's the problem. The darker moments show us the outcome of unrealistic and harmful messages of media and society, and the experience that women have in the world. This is a dark show, not a comedy, so if you're expecting laughs, you've missed the point.

Brilliant and Dark

[celt007 · 7/10 · 15 June 2021]

This show understands its subject matter and explains it well .

It works on so many levels .

Working as a sitcom and drama switching between the two demonstrates the world we pretend we live in and the world we actually do live in .

How many of us enter a room full of friends and family etc and realize it sounds like a sitcom . Silly banter and name calling nothing serious discussed .

I think this show has promise but only 2 episodes so far .

Annie Murphy is fantastic switching between fake sitcom banter and dark material .

Watch it with an open mind it's about many things . What does it mean to you ?

People are missing the point.

[dannelson-44459 · 9/10 · 21 June 2021]

Though it's not really that deep, this is going over the heads of some reviewers. It's a dark show. The comedy isn't supposed to be funny on its own, it's a parody of TV comedy. The acting in the TV comedy part IS over the top, The humor and plot of the sitcom part is supposed to be ridiculous. The laugh track and setting is in a stupid TV sitcom style. But that's the point. Around her husband, the world is a stupid sitcom full of idiocy. When he's out of the room, it her real life. It's dark. It's drama.

Don't be turned off by the first two minutes.

I Was Almost Out Then I Was Totally In!

[trotter-rick · 7/10 · 20 July 2022]

It takes a couple episodes to get use to the intentionally drastic tonal shifts and to get a feel for the conflict. Once I understood the show grew more and more compelling. So compelling that by the end I wanted season 2 immediately! Give this 2-3 episodes because it is definitely a different way of telling a story. Also, Annie Murphy does a great job acting.

It not supposed to be funny

[madelinesnapp · 10/10 · 25 June 2021]

Or at least not in the way sit coms are meant to be. This is not a sit com. Its a parody of the dumpy guy with a hot wife who he treats like an annoyance trope. For once the hot wife is the protagonist and it follows her around instead of the bumbling husband and through that you understand why she such a stick in the mud because she is married to a child. It's smart, clever and dark in the best way. I'm amazed at the 1 star reviews and that many people had this fly over their heads.

Solid has good potential

[ka-74603 · 7/10 · 21 June 2021]

I was excited to watch the 2 hour premiere of this show and it didn't disappoint. It definitely gets better in the second-half of the two-hour debut particularly in the more serious portions of the show. The multi perspective format is unique and it really is something watching a scene cut from a bright laugh tracked sitcom to a dark drama. You're watching two very different shows at once. While that gives KCFH some uniqueness it feels like the sitcom parts are a bit overused or perhaps overdone? I know Kevin is supposed to be portrayed as a moron but its obvious by the time the first sitcom scene ends. We get it, The King of Queens was corny. I'd be fine seeing a little less of the sitcom portion of the show because I think the gritty drama is the series' strongpoint. I would even go as far as saying that this is better classified as a drama than dark comedy. Still, after just 2 episodes I've seen enough to warrant tuning into the remainder of the season.

Jury's still out

[LittleJeff · 5/10 · 22 June 2021]

This reminds me of the segment in the movie 'Natural Born Killers' in which Mallory's history is explained through a flashback presented as a 50s/'Married with Children' comedic TV episode starring Rodney Dangerfield as Mal's abusive father. The difference is 'Kevin' under-serves the irony and is heavy on the...well, heaviness. I get it, but I'm not sure I'm up to a weekly dose of 'Kevin' as entertainment.

If you understand the concept, you will enjoy it

[AdrienneGrayceMusic · 10/10 · 18 July 2021]

So many people watch a few minutes of the opening scenes and assume its just a cheesy sitcom, without watching through to realize that the sitcom part is supposed to be over the top along with the laughtrack. Its such a unique and intreguing show. Despite the sitcom part being cheesy on purpose, a lot of it is actually funny and i find myself laughing anyways. The dark part of the show when it gets real is even funny sometimes. The show pokes fun at other sitcoms such as king of queens. If you notice, the husband is always some heavy, non attractive men with hot wives and shows how unrealistic that part is, while showing how sitcoms make women on these shows seem just dumb irrelevant servants. I think women can actually relate to this more than men becuase its relatable. I originally gave this show a 9 but changed my rating after watching more episodes. I'm picky with tv shows so if a series makes me go through withdrawals waiting on the next episode, I can't give it less than a 10.

I think a lot of the bad reviews only watched 1 episode.

[polkk-93161 · 7/10 · 8 July 2021]

The show really gets its legs in episode 3. The cliche sitcom parts of the show actually become kind of endearing and the parts outside the house that don't follow the sitcom model are really good. So yah I say give it a chance through episode 3 to really feel it out.

Didn't hold my interest but liked the finale

[hughjman · 3/10 · 8 July 2021]

To those saying that people who give this a low rating don't get it, not true: I get it. I was intrigued when I read articles about the premise, but the first 2 episodes did nothing for me. I do think the lead seems like a good actress. I get that the sitcom sections are supposed to be annoying so that she wants to escape that life, but you can only purposely annoy your audience for so long, I suppose. Maybe if they make the sitcom sections much briefer now that the audience knows the premise, that might help. Or make them actually funny. Maybe the "sitcom" will have an arc that makes it interesting. And nothing in the dramatic sections aroused my interest. I might go back and watch more someday, and maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised; maybe there's a build coming I don't foresee. But right now I feel like watching it again is kind of like fulfilling a "school assignment" and I don't want to do it.

To reviewers saying that people who don't like it don't get it: Don't be so arrogant. Sometimes people just don't like what you do. And it builds up bad will toward the show when you do it.

EDITED TO ADD: I watched the series finale, which was good, so I watched the second season. It was better than the first few episodes, at least. Not great but better.

I totally loved that the new girlfriend in the series final episode was played by the killed-off first wife from Kevin Can Wait.

Clever and different

[AdrienneGrayceMusic · 10/10 · 22 June 2021]

Its definitely better than the previews and not what I thought. Its dark, its insane, its funny, and i love every bit of it. Its nothing like I've ever seen. It took about 3 episodes to really get the feel of it. The back and forth between sitcom mode and reality mode was done wonderfully. Here's to hoping for a season 2.

good concept, give ep1 a full watch, then decide.

[surfisfun · 7/10 · 7 October 2021]

It is a bit like Wenda, a show i didnt like,but i prefer this one.

I found the reality world parts can have been writen betterbut that would complicate the connections with the parts that are old bad funny sitcom style.

Give it a try, i found it ok and hope it will not get stale before i finish the whole season....

Adjust Your Lenses . . . And You Better Look Twice!

[Sunsphxsuns · 9/10 · 21 June 2021]

It's way too early to say what is the real plot line quietly lurking just below the surface of the first few episodes of "Kevin Can F Himself," but it's immediately clear that Allison (Annie Murphy) has suffered years of marital abuse from her husband, Kevin (Eric Petersen). Her gas tank of emotions is almost empty. The men in her life are mostly insensitive pigs. She's had enough.

The seemingly incongruous "laugh track" that curiously warps in and out of the episodes is clearly not meant to cue viewers when to laugh. Indeed, it's there to underscore the immediate darkness that is present, and perhaps, the more sinister darkness that is to come. We shall see. Intelligent, edgy TV. I'm psyched!

Unique

[jomalley52 · 7/10 · 19 June 2021]

Very unique idea. The sitcom moments are very throwback to the 80s. Annie Murphy moves from the sitcom to drama scenes with ease. I will be honest that I didn't get it in the beginning but it came together.

Dark and Unique

[avisdolphin · 10/10 · 24 July 2021]

Annie Murphy is fantastic. This is NOT a comedy. It is a dark drama about an unhappy wife trapped in a dysfunctional relationship and her effort to break free. The director's/writer's decision to contrast the colour and lighting from her 'family life' to her 'real' life planning an escape is unique and brilliant. This is a new and noteworthy series. Highly recommended.

Very different format but in a good way.

[Harlowwinslet-292-209346 · 7/10 · 22 August 2022]

I wasn't so sure about this show at first. The switching back and forth between being a sitcom and a drama was very odd. I thought it would just be the first episode but it continued all through the season. Over time you get attached to these characters but at no point do you really care about Kevin. He's pretty abysmal and that's probably why it works. I'm intrigued and curious to see what they have for season 2 especially since it will be the final season.

Interesting concept, missed on execution

[R_Smitts-JR · 5/10 · 6 July 2021]

I get the concept, but .... this would have been much better had the sit-com portion not be so obviously over the top.

An effort to write it within the constraints of a "good" sit-com rather than making it an obviously bad sit-com would have made the point more clearly. "Everybody Loves Raymond," for example, may have been playing some really hurtful stereotypes but it was at least funny within its form ... this is not.

Conversely, the drama portion is just too funny. It should have been written (and acted) more within the genre of serious drama. I can't help but realize I am watching comedy actors play stereotypical "Worchesterians," bad accents and all.

But, the concept is interesting. Forget the twist of playing off sit-com TV, how do abused and ignored housewives really live in our male-dominated society?

Abused wife breaking bad

[lorenlsteele-293-348039 · 9/10 · 28 June 2021]

The sitcom part is SUPPOSED to be insufferable. All of the Raymond and Kevin Sitcoms are insufferable to anyone with a brain. I'm really intrigued by the developing relationship between Allison and Patty. Two people trying to break out of their miserable lives, rolling with the punches of their poor decisions.

I tried

[stormshadow999 · 6/10 · 7 August 2021]

After seeing promos for months, I was really looking forward to this. I didn't understand if it was going to be a sitcom or a drama until I watched the first episode, then realized what the writers were doing. The concept is original, but the execution falls flat. I don't really care for any of the characters (nothing against the actors; everyone seems well cast) and the pacing seems very slow. After 2-3 episodes, I wanted Allison to either divorce or kill him and be done with it. Maybe I should have given it a few more episodes, but I've already lost interest.

Is the payoff worth the pain?

[rik-938-114271 · 5/10 · 6 December 2021]

This is pretty much the question you'll have to answer for yourself. There is some potential here ... but you have to live through some pain ... actually quite a bit if pain... to get there. The sitcom portion is mostly... well... horrendous. And I know that's the point. But there is so much sitcom and most of it is so bad. There were a few chuckles but it took some time to get there... and only maybe half of them were within the sitcom portion. Anyone watching this without an idea of the premise ... what they were shooting for ... likely moved on by the 10 minute mark. I almost did myself and I did know. It was just taking too long to get there.

Underrated

[kb-50251 · 9/10 · 31 May 2022]

I think people missed the point of this show judging by the low ratings.

Definitely worth a watch.

Not even sure what genre this fits into.

I found it refreshingly different.

Enjoyed most of the show.

[craig_t6 · 7/10 · 9 September 2021]

The contrast between the real world and sitcom was really well done imo but the last episode kinda lost its way and on reflection are we meant to be rooting for Allison? She's clearly a sociopath. I do think if I didn't like Annie Murphy I'd have straight up hated her character.