The 2013 Golden Globe nominations came in this morning, and, as usual, they snubbed a bunch of TV's best comedies. Community and Happy Endings didn't receive a single nomination (and never have, from the Globes), whereas Parks and Recreation and Louie only got one nomination each for acting and not for Best TV Comedy. To put things into perspective, the Matt LeBlanc Showtime series Episodes got a Best TV Comedy nomination, an honor that was not bestowed upon 30 Rock, Community, Happy Endings, Parks and Recreation, and Louie. And most important of all, Parks and Recreation's Nick Offerman has never been nominated for a Golden Globe (or an [...]
Good news for fans of Showtimes new Sunday night comedy (dramedy?) block: both Episodes and Shameless are coming back for another season.
It’s hard to make rape, ocular blindness and infidelity particularly funny, but the most recent episode of Episodes proved to be the funniest yet. Perhaps it’s because audiences have come to accept the more uncomfortable brand of humor, like The Office and Louie. The thing that all these shows have in common is the idea that you don’t have to have a punch line to be funny. While this episode wasn’t a laugh riot, per say, it was still the most absurd and amusing episode to date.
Matt LeBlanc is on a show! I wouldn’t have admitted it after the pilot episode of Episodes aired last week with a mere minute of airtime for LeBlanc. But in the second show, Matt finally shows up. And he’s not that bad; in fact, he may be the funniest part of Showtime’s most recent comedy series. And in this episode, we are introduced to two Matt LeBlanc’s.
It’s hard to imagine a show about the underbelly of Hollywood that doesn't fall into certain overused character conventions. And Episodes is no exception. That being said, writers Jeffrey Klarik (Dream On) and David Crane (co-creator of Friends) do a good job [...]
I had high hopes for Episodes based on the initial trailer, but Alan Sepinwall's review over at Hitfix doesn't bode well for Showtime's new comedy series: "When you're attacking a big, fat target like the superficial, duplicitous nature of Hollywood, and being so relentless and bitter about it, you need to be much, much, much funnier than Episodes is. You need to be The Larry Sanders Show funny, or Extras season two funny. Episodes isn't even as funny as Crane and Klarik's last collaboration, the exceedingly mediocre short-lived CBS comedy The Class — and that's even considering that the new show features Crane's old Friends star Matt LeBlanc [...]
