Spring finale recap, part 2: Comedies
This week let’s check back in with some of the sitcoms we reviewed this season.
Extinction event: The post-apocalyptic humor of ‘The Last Man on Earth’
Forte and Schaal have great chemistry. Both are stellar comic actors and improvisers who bounce off each other well. The odd couple dynamic is entertaining; especially in the way both characters exhibit their implicit (and eventually explicit) disdain with the other.
All right! — ‘Bob’s Burgers’ is still a treat
The animated sitcom has long inhabited a categorical limbo with American television audiences. Many will easily dismiss all cartoons as inherently childish. Such viewers are seemingly unable to suspend their disbelief that animation can be for grownups, too.
