'Sons of Tucson' recycles sitcoms
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'Sons of Tucson' recycles sitcoms'Sons of Tucson' recycles sitcomsLike a lot of sitcoms,登车桥, Sons of Tucson could use less concept and more comedy.Linear actuatorWatching Sunday's premiere, you can almost hear the pitch being made,#x
and feel the show being cobbled together out of bits and pieces of other sitcoms.Take three kids who seem to have nothing in common with one another, and too much in common with the boys from Malcolm in the Middle. (One of Tucson's producers is Justin Berfield, who was Malcolm's Reese.)But rather than give them a father, let them hire someone to play their dad — trusting that most people won't remember that NBC used the exact same plot 20 years ago for the deservedly short-lived Robert Mitchum sitcom A Family for Joe.And yes, you read that right: A Robert Mitchum sitcom. Pause to consider that for a moment.This time around for the father, they've cast Taylor Labine, an amusing supporting actor who has become less amusing with each increase in airtime. Clearly, though, the producers don't agree, as they seem to be under the impression that every move this talented-but-overexposed actor makes is comedy gold.The "sons" in the title are 8-year-old Robby (Benjamin Stockham), 11-year-old Gary (Frank Dolce) and 13-year-old Brandon (Matthew Levy), on their own thanks to an absent mother and an imprisoned father. So they can stay together, they hire a homeless sporting goods salesman, Ron (Labine),#x
to pretend to be their father — and then they force him to live in the backyard shed.Why stick him in a shed instead of in a bedroom? Apparently because the producers think it will be endlessly hilarious to watch Ron try to scheme his way into the house, like Lucy trying to break into show business.That bit worked for I Love Lucyfor years.Linear actuatorThree episodes into Sons and it's already exhausted — which is a comment both on the performances and on the lack of effort the writers make to invest us in the outcome.Part of the joke, of course, is supposed to be the role-reversal battle between the childish Ron and the old-beyond-his-years Gary, who also is struggling to keep his volatile little brother and flaked-out older brother in line. There are some humorous moments and decent lines. But overall, the joke has such a nasty, frantic edge, it's hard to care which way the punch line lands.In the end, you have to wonder why Fox would even bother to do a live-action sitcom if the characters are going to come across as less human than the network's cartoons. #x
You have some talented people at work on-screen.Linear actuatorWhy not give them something real to play, and something funny to do?
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