Thursday, June 21, 2007

Critic: Why the show will fail

Two opinions worth reading:

Daynah Burnett at PopMatters gives us one of the more thoughtful and well-written reviews we've read yet about the show. "Though the two foreigners appear dim-witted, it’s not because they are “foreign” (take that, Borat). Instead, they would be hormone-driven idiots, no matter the hemisphere they inhabit," Burnett writes.

The other post is somewhat critical of the show. Tubewad outlines four reasons FOTC will fail, "despite being a pretty funny show." We don't necessarily agree with some of the reasoning or the description of the series as a "musical."

We've read in a few places where critics wonder whether the FOTC will survive without continuous plot lines or whether the deadpan humor will grow old too soon. Didn't Seinfeld already prove that a show about nothing can have a very long shelf life?

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