Jeff Wheeler(Joel McHale,heretofore previously known as the latest in a long line of wiseacres who host/hosted E!'s "The Soup")has been demoted--via a plot contrivance that's as improbable as it is inspired--from accomplished lawyer to freshman at a local community college. Forced to suck it up,Jeff goes to this Juco and discovers that he may,in fact,have a bonding with a group of students in his Spanish course(!). Among them:a skeptical hot girl(Gillian Jacobs),a cinema auteur wannabe(Danny Pudi),a highly-opinionated black lady(Yvette Nicole Brown),the seemingly virginal fuddy-dud(Alison Edie),the "Maybe he's gay/maybe not" star athlete(Donald Glover)and a one-time successful entrepreneur with a seemingly endless amount of dark character flaws(Chevy Chase,as inspired a comeback as ever!). Riding herd over these less-than-inspired selfish individuals are Senor Chang(Ken Leung,capitalizing on his ability to slip into psychotic comedic characters wherever he can find them),the Spanish teacher with a bit of a Napoleon complex and Dean Pelton(Jim Rash),a blissfully oblivious and callous department head.
A dark comedy,full of a veritable stream of Anti-PSA type messages and campus stereotypes of various amounts of unlikability,this show joins the seemingly long and gilded pantheon of acclaimed AND well-received comedies on NBC's Thursday nights. I have no real fix on how well this show is doing,ratings-wise,but I suspect that enough good word of mouth will keep this one running for AT LEAST another season. Well,I can hope anyway.
A fun(if perhaps in need of polish) show that augments an already very watchable evening of shows!
A dark comedy,full of a veritable stream of Anti-PSA type messages and campus stereotypes of various amounts of unlikability,this show joins the seemingly long and gilded pantheon of acclaimed AND well-received comedies on NBC's Thursday nights. I have no real fix on how well this show is doing,ratings-wise,but I suspect that enough good word of mouth will keep this one running for AT LEAST another season. Well,I can hope anyway.
A fun(if perhaps in need of polish) show that augments an already very watchable evening of shows!