# "Dad Stop Embarrassing Me" - new Jamie Foxx show on Netflix

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, netflix\
**Created:** [April 14, 2021, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dad-stop-embarrassing-me-new-jamie-foxx-show-on-netflix/940009 "2021-04-14T22:39:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2021, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dad-stop-embarrassing-me-new-jamie-foxx-show-on-netflix/940009/1 "2021-04-14T22:39:16Z")

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My wife heard a podcast interview or something with Jamie Foxx, and was interested to see the new sitcom he co-created and co-wrote, premiering today on Netflix. I didn’t know anything about it, but she seemed enthusiastic, so I said sure, let it play.

It’s one of the worst TV things I’ve seen in years.

It’s lazy. It’s obvious. It’s slapdash. It’s offensive. It’s cheap. It’s incoherent. It’s thoroughly, _comprehensively_ terrible.

It’s unbelievably bad, and I mean literally unbelievable, in that you stare at it in confusion, unable to accept that a major star like Foxx, with a pretty good creative track record, conceived this thing and contributed to its scripts and is now proudly showing it off to millions of people.

It barely looks like a professional sitcom. What it looks like, actually, is if a TV weatherman in a middling market got bit by the ego bug and decided it was his destiny to be a comedy star, so he spent his own money to create a vanity sitcom on the local public-access channel where he can clown around as much as he likes, except somehow the weatherman is an award-winning movie star and the public-access station is the world’s leading streaming service.

It’s utterly wretched. It defies explanation. It’s a fever dream of ineptitude and hubris.

If there’s a Hell, this is what’s playing.

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**Author:** ![gdave](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gdave/32/3683_2.png) [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dad-stop-embarrassing-me-new-jamie-foxx-show-on-netflix/940009/2 "2021-04-15T02:11:40Z")

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So, maybe it’s the world’s most expensive meta-joke? I mean, it’s right there in the title…

(I’m not serious about that. But, while I haven’t seen an actual episode, when I saw the trailer, which usually has the funniest bits from a project, it just looked, well, embarrassingly bad.)