12 TV Comedies You Need To Be Watching
10. Review
Andy Daly's Review is a documentary series that follows Forrest MacNeil, a reviewer who doesn't review books or movies: he reviews life itself. And it's totally genius.
Basically, fictional viewers ask Forrest to review life experiences, which can be anything from eating 15 pancakes to getting addicted to drugs to being a racist. He fully commits to whatever the show asks of him no matter what, going to insane lengths for his reviews. In one episode, the life experience is "getting divorced," and so he actually divorces his wife just for the show. Oh, and at the end of all of these segments, he gives the experience a number of stars out of five.
It's absolutely hilarious, and what's surprisingly cool about the show is that it actually has continuity to it. These aren't just a series of unrelated sketches. When Forrest gets divorced, that affects the rest of the series, and his martial troubles continue to pop up in other episodes. All of these individual segments actually function to develop Forrest as a character and build up this ongoing saga about a man committed to this stupid show to an insane degree.
The humor is often unbearably dark so you don't know whether to laugh or cry, and oftentimes, the answer is both.