Oh well.

Since I talk up the Geico commercials so much, might as well be honest here. This one isn’t gonna be for me unless it changes more. Including the dreadful Dilbert meets Office Space car pool show that followed, and unless I just haven’t watched enough network TV lately to see what passes for humor, I think ABC just killed the sitcom. A few laughs is pretty fair. The real estate lady was probably the funniest character on the show, and that’s a problem when you have three leads who are just kinda so-so, hang loose slacker dudes. But it went too far in trying to be “Oh, we’re just cavemen in a normal world” without the funny scenarios of the commercials. Maybe Talia Shire should be the shrink that one of them sees each week. Coneheads handled the same fish out of water trying to be normal territory, but at least the situations were funnier.

I know they’re establishing characters in the first show, but it felt like there wasn’t really a central theme except for the girlfriend thing. When an episode is called “Kramer tries out for the Yankees” on Seinfeld, you know what that’s about. Here, it was like, three cavemen live together, one works at an Ikea knockoff and has a hot girlfirend into cavemen. Okay, but what was the show about?

In trying to be so normal, it went too far towards being serious. In this case, I’d rather have seen it go further and play as a reality show shot like COPS. Or at least move to cable where the humor could be riskier like Always Sunny. Variety has a pretty accurate review.

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