*Tilts head like a confused dog* .....huh. So....its "Boondocks" if you wanted it to be more cringe. Um....it's blacker than "Cleveland Show". Its got that going for it.
I feel like if I watched this show, I'd get a free membership into the KKK because there are so many white supremacist dog whistles in this trailer. Reagan would have loved this show.
Seth McFarlane is involved. Hence my Cleveland reference. When Seth has a bad day at the office...fuck.
So basically Seth had a whole bunch of black jokes in a drawer from when the cleveland show got cancelled and Netflix bought them for a series. Maybe I will get stoned and watch it, but probably not.
Why even bother calling it "Good Timesx when it has none of the earnest writing the original had? Hell, the original show ended with all the family getting outta the hood anyway, who how the hell did they end up back in the ghetto?! The talking grown ass baby schtick is to Western cartoons what isekais have become to anime, but with even less room to be creative. Pass.
Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see a single name of the original cast in this, so I'm thinking that this is a reboot. And since it's animated, they pay the actors less.
It's being billed as a sequel of sorts, but everything is so tonally dissonant to its source material that they should've just called it something else.
*Cutesy wutesy anime girls riding inside giant mechas shrink down to the quantum realm and fight a tardigrade* All In The Family!
I was thinking the same thing. So you're going to depict a black family regressing and you think that's a good idea?
It sounds like it is meant to be Good Times: The Next Next Generation. There was a reference to James Evans being someone's grandfather (I assume it's the oldest male character). So that guy would be the son of one of the three kids, J.J., Michael or Thelma. The time would line up -- if one of those kids had a kid in the 80s, and that kid had a kid around the 00s, the characters would be around the ages the seem to be in the trailer. I don't remember much from seeing the show during its original run, and probably haven't seen an episode since then. So not really into the nostalgia fix.
It's unclear if the family has regressed. The dad character seemingly has a job and might be lower class, but could also be middle class. There is a joke in the trailer about how the system has made the neighborhood a shithole by putting guns and drugs on the street. It's unclear where the show is going to land in terms of making fun of/blaming these particular characters, black people, white people, systemic problems etc etc. for the issues in it. If I were to guess, it seems like Seth McFarlane is using the same formula he has done for most of his cartoons: Dumb, one-note patriarch at the center of the show/jokes (See Peter from Family Guy, Stan from American Dad, Cleveland from the Cleveland Show) Attractive MILF who is somewhat righteous (Lois/Francine/Donna) Loser son (Chris/Steve/Cleveland Jr.) Buzzkill daughter (Meg/Hayley/Roberta) Troublemaker son/"son" (Stewie/Roger/Rollo) With some throwaway warmed over political/social satire about the level of those shows. My couple times semi-amused at the trailer were Black Jesus going "New phone, who dis?" and the one character saying the struggle will be there tomorrow.
This is so cringe worthy. They call it Good Times and there’s a lot of names I recognize but that trailer looks so… yuck. Full of stereotypes and racist tropes. Why? I’ll check it out, but I don’t expect to see too much past the first episode.
Shit, why bother hate watching and risking a 2nd season? I'll admit Netflix has a nasty habit of rage bait-y trailers, but Seth MacFarlane is a known entity after 25 years.
I will say that I'd enjoyed most of the Seth Mac projects that I've viewed -- the aforementioned three cartoons, Ted and the Orville. However, I think that each of the cartoons got old and samey after a while, and I quit each well before they concluded. I just learned that American Dad! is still apparently making new episodes...wow. Anyway, I will probably look at the reviews of it to decide whether to give it a chance. I'm sure I've watched far worse shows on Netflix and elsewhere than this will turn out to be. But then I'm also sure that with all my streaming subscriptions, I can do way better.
When I started this thread, I was like "..is it me? Am I going fucking crazy? ". Nope, I'm gonna be okay. Seth went crazy.
I was warning off some boomers last night who were considering giving the show a chance because Seth used Good Times to sell his shit. He did not need to do that, or maybe he did because no one liked it when he called it the Cleveland Show.
I blame it's Pick-Me ass Black creator Alyson Fouse too...her ass was swearing up and down it was gonna be good and to give it a chance. I hope she getting roasted online Hell, even the Cleveland Show for as mid as that was was a better representation of Black life than this. Cleveland and Donna were the most healthy couple ever created for a Seth MacFarlane joint and they were never within 100 miles of the ghetto. The most ratchet ass character on the show was Roberta's wigga boyfriend.
At any rate the CHUDs should have a ball with this one. I get the complaints that Netflix carries content for them, but this is obviously their content and seth does seem to have a finger on what they consider humor. I guess he is better than rob schneider or Greg gutfeld. Who else is the right wing comedian? I think even andrew dice clay has gotten too old for their shit. Maybe not, and if not they should bring him back. It is not like the chuds are going to watch a mouthy bitch like roseanne.
