Following a 10-year bender, the disgraced "Voice of Kansas City" apprehensively returns to the booth. Brockmire(Hank Azaria) has become a viral sensation ("Keep it Brockmire!"), so Jules (Amanda Peet), owner of a scrappy minor-league team, hires him to restore "the worst town in America."
Originally Posted by KChiefs1:
I wonder why MLB didn't sign on for this? Not one mention of any teams just cities. I would think it would have made it better.
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The started out at FoD as a sketch, and ended up on IFC. I doubt if the network even considered approaching MLB out of fear of licensing costs.
I like the show, but I doubt anyone involved is making enough to buy a mid-sized sedan out of the enterprise. [Reply]
I thought yesterday's episode was pretty weak. And I'm not some pro-lifer. The deliver of the "some horses, they have ghonorea." Was damn funny but that's about it. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Baby Lee:
The started out at FoD as a sketch, and ended up on IFC. I doubt if the network even considered approaching MLB out of fear of licensing costs.
I like the show, but I doubt anyone involved is making enough to buy a mid-sized sedan out of the enterprise.
Yeah, this is more of a passion project for Azaria than anything.
I don't expect a terribly long life-span but frankly I'm not sure exactly how long said lifespan could possibly be anyway. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Buehler445:
I thought yesterday's episode was pretty weak. And I'm not some pro-lifer. The deliver of the "some horses, they have ghonorea." Was damn funny but that's about it.
I don't know, the whole bemused abortion doctor was funnier than I expected.
Snorting the pill was an obvious plot device. But it was humorous contemplating them going back, hat in hand, for a replacement. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Buehler445:
I thought yesterday's episode was pretty weak. And I'm not some pro-lifer. The deliver of the "some horses, they have ghonorea." Was damn funny but that's about it.
I thought it was decent.
Nothing world-altering but it's a show about a degenerate baseball announcer and his alcoholic girlfriend.
You're not gonna get Silicon Valley level comedy here; this isn't highbrow. They don't really trade in wry wit (though occasionally you have bits of it; the abortion doctor was a solid example). [Reply]
Originally Posted by Buehler445:
Eh. It didn't resonate with me. For whatever reason.
Same. Never been a fan of Azaria's acting though. He should stick to voices.
EDIT: Just noticed you were speaking about the most recent episode. I didn't make it past the first. It had a few funny moments but nothing enough to make me want to watch the second. [Reply]
I gotta say, when this started it was madcap fun, but I wasn't sold on an extended narrative.
When it got a pickup for several seasons it was a bit of a head-scratcher.
But man, they have a heck of a writing staff.
The situations and the overall narratives are pretty pedestrian. Now that he's sober, things are a lot less over the top. But the banter and the dialog is topnotch week after week. Reliably somebody says something that has me pausing the stream to catch up with the laughter.
If you dropped it, or haven't caught it yet, it remains worth a glance. [Reply]
