Anyone else watch this show? My wife and I love it, it’s that great combination of pompously obliviousness that leads to slow motion train wrecks.
For those who haven’t seen it, the host reviews life events and each season the show eventually consumes his life and that of everyone around him.
A bonus is that the actor who plays the producer of the show does the voice of Thaddeus Venture and every once in a while, a little Rusty comes out.
I watched the first few episodes of Season One, and the show has some of the funniest writing I’ve seen on television in forever; I’ll say the “Pancakes, Divorce, Pancakes” was one of the best things I saw last year. Andy Daly is very funny and does a great job playing Forrest MacNeil as a mixture of motivated, clueless, arrogant and sincere.
Probably the funniest thing currently on television and nobody seems to care about it.
Yeah, for straight up laughing out loud Review can’t be beat. Did you see the episode where he’s reviewing what it’s like to be Irish last season? He’s trying to have this serious conversation with his wife while maintaining this horrible Lucky Charms commercial accent.
I love Review and have told all my friends about it. It’s definitely one of the best comedies on right now, and also the best horror show in some ways.
I watched a few episodes of the original Australian show that Review is based off of, and it was funny, but in a different way. The Australian host seemed more like a sociopath, where he could do terrible things but be mostly unaffected by them. But Forrest MacNeil is more like someone who is wanting or trying to be a good person but deluding themselves. He is a fascinating character to me.
I find the “how will i ruin my/someone else’s life this week” premise gets kinda old after the umpteen time, but the show remains extremely funny.
The problem is, I wanted to procrastinate watching one of the episodes.
It is one of those shows I really enjoy when I watch it but I still don’t go out of my way to make sure that happens regularly (which is true for much of what I like on Comedy Central for some reason).
I think it remains funny because Forrest MacNeil is so upbeat and optimistic most of the time. He really thinks he is doing the show for the benefit of mankind. The second season has gotten darker, but there are still some review requests that should have been perfectly nice, non-harmful things, but ended up destructive because of his delusional commitment to the show and somewhat skewed values.
Also it’s great on building on things. Shows like Seinfeld or It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia basically have blank slates for each new episode. Some things carry over, but a lot of terrible things seem to be forgotten. It’s interesting seeing the consequences build in Review.
I read somewhere, I think on the Atlantic Monthly website, that Forrest is the ultimate entitled white man. He thinks that of course his opinions and experiences are important and therefore worthy of all the pain he causes. I love how quickly his reviews go off the rails and how detached he is from the chaos he is creating, he blackmails his girlfriend because the show is ‘making’ him, but he still thinks they can just go on a date like it’s not happening.
You didn’t start a thread about it! So clearly you left out a whole chunk of “friends” 
Thank goodness for madmonk28, a true friend…
Season 2 has been awesome:
I love the way they’ve been getting the reviews to relate and overlap in Season 2.
I think my fav is the one where the first review was “What is it like to convert a homosexual?” and he ends up taking this young guy to a strip club as part of the “conversion” then he hits it off with this stripper. . . then the next review is “What is it like to join the mile-high club?” so, he invites his new stripper girlfriend on the flight with him and she won’t do it and says “just because I’m a stripper doesn’t mean I’m a sexual deviant.” And then he’s trying to pick up women on the plane in front of his stripper girlfriend, and she’s all shocked. . .anyway, hard to explain, but that one had me rolling with laughter.
I don’t like to overuse the word hero…
I’m glad other people love this insane and genius show. For those who have seen the whole season, do you think it can come back next year, or did it reach a natural ending point?
My favorite part was when he was leaving prison and saying goodbye to his imaginary friend, who was clearly staying behind and not getting out with Forrest.
I really tried to like this, but after a couple episodes, it just falls flat. I just watched “Conspiracy theory” and man, what a stinker.
Ya got me there. I think of y’all as more of my imaginary friends, like a whole bunch of Clovers.
It’s not a show for everyone, it’s fair to not like it. But it’s definitely a show that benefits hugely from being watched in order. The Conspiracy Theory episode is the season finale and builds off all the other things that have happened in this season.
Too soon! RIP Clovers.
This season, I’ve noticed the character of AJ more, she provides this kind of running commentary just with her eyes.
She’s pretty great. I loved her excitement about the vetoes, both in hoping they would be used, and happiness when they were. And the times when she’s the voice of reason, like that he was taking the Procrastination idea too seriously. I love her.
“If you had just procrastinated like a normal person.”
I also liked that she gave believing in a conspiracy theory six stars.
I watched the first episode last night. I laughed when he pulled the car over in the dark and asked the babysitter to the prom. It was so creepy, especially if you take out the context, that I could not help but laugh.
The peoples’ reaction at his racism was hilarious. The black guy was laughing like crazy when he was accusing black people of ruining America. It’s true. Fake racism just comes off as hilarious.
Their laughter at him was one of my favorite moments.