"Pilot" Air Date 3-1-12
This is a pretty interesting concept for a show. After only the first few minutes I was all ready pondering my perception of what reality is.
If the psychiatrist deemed him unfit to work. I don't think they would be able to fire him, I think he would go on disability at least for awhile while he worked on his problems.
The way they keep flip flopping back and forth between realities, I'm going to have to really pay attention to this show. When he went to his kids tennis match, I spent the entire time trying to figure out if he has switched realities to get there, as if both realities were taking place at the same time and he had to sleep in order to change dimensions. In the end I decided that he didn't, but it left me wondering what would happen if he took a nap.
Shouldn't the coach be courtside, you know, coaching?
You would think the first thing the psychiatrist would want to do is take him to a sleep clinic and monitor his sleep patterns.
In both realities his partners fired their guns and killed the bad guys. I'm no expert but wouldn't they both be put on administrative leave until they underwent psychiatric evaluation. I also found it interesting that it was his two partners that took the shots and in both realities the perp ended up dead, I wonder if this will play into a running theme for the show.
I didn't notice it until the end of the episode, but it seemed like the two realities had a different color palettes used to distinguish them from the other. Both seemed to be based off of the color wrist bands that he wears and the only exception to this seemed to be the doctors offices which seemed to be switched. Of course I may be reading too much into nothing, but it is something that I will be watching for next week.
So far I enjoyed the show, I have a few worries one being NBC shows lots of times become very formulaic and episodic both of these would make the show go down hill fast. The other big worry I have is that there is going to be some giant mastermind bad guy behind the whole accident.
"Idiots Are People Three!" Air Date 1-26-12
The first three thing I wrote down in my notes to talk about are "man hogs, N.A.Z.I. and hospital for rich whites and dissimulated Jews" all three show the levels that this show works at and why it is one of the funnier show on TV even if it is starting to become a caricature of itself.
I laughed when Tracy was talking about how there were idiots all around them and it cut directly to Kenneth and Jenna.
More funny protest signs, the two I was able to make out were: a picture of a cat and written underneath it was "I HAZ PROTEST" and the other was one where the beginning letters of all the words spelled out something else, except it didn't it was:
Non't
Bnsult
Cdiots
The microphones for the stations that were covering the idiots press confrere were from: Yahoo Answers, Fox News, Spike, Cinamax, and The Today Show.
"Bowling for Votes" Air Date 1-26-12
This show works better when the whole cast is together, it always seems to fall apart when they are broken down into smaller groups. And it wouldn't make sense to schedule a bowling party and a donation cold calling at the same time when they have such a small team, you would think they would want all hands on deck for both things.
The whole episode I kept wondering if they had some kind of rig to make a strike happen, I know they cold have just done multiple takes but that would have to get tedious, especially with Tom bowling between his legs.
All-in-all I thought it was a pretty bland episode, nothing really happened story wise and nothing was speakably funny.
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