...though I admit that my main reason for tuning in was to see Christian Campbell, who plays the gay son and who is, IMO, thoroughly adorable. [Check him out in the movie Trick (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162710/); it wasn't flawless but I thought it worked a lot better than "The Book of Daniel" has so far!]
I think part of the problem with the setup of the show is that a lot of the humor depends on knowing something about the Episcopalian church - at least, as an Episcopalian, I picked up on lots of bits that I suspect meant nothing to most viewers. Even more of a problem: it just seems to keep piling on the quirky behavior without much rhyme or reason, so that while individual performers were giving it their best it just didn't hang together. [Now, Comedy Central's "Drawn Together (http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/drawn_together/index.jhtml)" also tends to pile on as many disparate jokes and references as the writers can come up with, and seem to have given up any attempt at linear story-telling, but at least it's funny. (And crude. Very crude. But I laugh a lot.)]
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Yeah, I'd hoped for better as well...
Date: Jan. 17th, 2006 11:37 pm (UTC)I think part of the problem with the setup of the show is that a lot of the humor depends on knowing something about the Episcopalian church - at least, as an Episcopalian, I picked up on lots of bits that I suspect meant nothing to most viewers. Even more of a problem: it just seems to keep piling on the quirky behavior without much rhyme or reason, so that while individual performers were giving it their best it just didn't hang together. [Now, Comedy Central's "Drawn Together (http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/drawn_together/index.jhtml)" also tends to pile on as many disparate jokes and references as the writers can come up with, and seem to have given up any attempt at linear story-telling, but at least it's funny. (And crude. Very crude. But I laugh a lot.)]