Sentences with phrase «of sitcoms like»

It highlights the comedic strengths and deficiencies of sitcoms like The Cosby Show (why was there no mention of crack cocaine or the AIDS crisis?).

Not exact matches

Nostalgia for the 1980s and the 1990s has peaked in recent years, as evidenced elsewhere in the fashion world with a denim comeback not to mention listicle upon listicle on BuzzFeed, reboots of countless nineties sitcoms from Boy Meets World to Full House (or original takes on dated themes like Netflix's Stranger Things), or even the release of the Nintendo NES Classic Edition that immediately became The Gift of the 2016 holiday season.

In terms of ad space, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee unveiled a video advertisement written and directed by Ben Wexler, a producer for sitcoms like «Arrested Development» and «Community.»

Of course there have also been massive flops, like Budweiser's ill - fated Bud.tv and the abysmal ABC sitcom based on Geico's Cavemen characters.

While it's hard to predict the actions of these two companies, which get together and break up like a romantic pair on a sitcom, it's sort of now or never to make a deal.

It's like living in a sitcom a lot of the time.

She has a keen understanding of her place in Hollywood, right now — as one of the breakout stars of a beloved sitcom; as the most fascinating character on Legion, one of current TV's most fascinating shows; as a high - profile woman in an industry currently under an enormous amount of scrutiny for how it treats women; and as an actress building a singularly astonishing resume of excellent, low - flying indie oddball films like Ingrid Goes West and Safety Not Guaranteed.

But as well as being brilliant to see, the footage from the Malaysian GP briefing also ended up being unintentionally hilarious as the camerawork made it look like something straight out of a sitcom.

That sounds like the title of a sitcom, and truth be told Juan Manuel Mata definitely has the everyman good looks, the consummate skill and the disarmingly large amount of charm needed to star in a sitcom, but it's also a very true.

Otherwise you may have trouble with over-sudsing, and your laundry room will look like one of those «60's sitcoms where the dad tries to do laundry and adds a half a box of detergent to the machine.

The notion, he said, was like a nostalgic remembrance of a beloved old sitcom: «Coming up after «Happy Days,» it's «Three Men in a Room.

The scenario of hapless city slickers gamely trying to make a go of living in the country is an old classic, from Aesop's fable «The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse» and Shakespeare's As You Like It to Kaufman and Hart's 1940 play George Washington Slept Here and the»60s TV sitcom Green Acres.

My mother lives right next door, it's kind of like a sitcom at times.

It looks like the kind of dress a fabulous far out grandma would wear on an 80s sitcom — and most real - life grandmas are far more fashionable than that!

Yet, despite the set - up, Him & Her is a breath of fresh air that often feels more like a play than a sitcom.

On the inside, I am a big kid that still loves to watch 90s sitcoms like Saved by the Bell, Fresh Prince of Bel - Air, Boy Meets World, Home Improvement, etc...

With her role as the epnoymous character in Frida (2002), Hayek disappeared into her subject so convincingly that not only would she return to the good graces of critics, but earn an Oscar nomination as well.Hayek would spend the coming years enjoying superstar status with everything from comedic turns on sitcoms like Ugly Betty (which she produced) and 30 Rock, to meaty roles in dramatic thrillers like Savages.

This reminds me, every once in a while on television they'll show failed sitcom pilots that never got picked up by the networks, and this has the feel of something like that.

These are actors after all, but they're genial performers, convincingly communicating a lifelong bond that permits such an accessible invasion of privacy, making the plot feel less like a crude sitcom and more like a bawdy home movie that's spun wildly out of control.

On the small screen, the film will likely lose some of its raucous energy - although, since the film plays like a prolonged sitcom, it might very well be even more effective on the small screen.

Apatow directs it like a lot of unimaginative sitcoms are directed.

Life of the Party presents a situation more than a story, and in that it's more like a sitcom than a conventional movie.

It cleverly defies all of the dreary fall sitcom trends: black people moving into white neighborhoods, single parents struggling to hold housefuls of screaming brats in line, gay men yearning to make sense of a straight world, and young adults basically acting like idiots.

The series quickly begins to resemble one of those fake sitcoms you'd see in a snide movie that likes to take easy potshots at low culture.

-- then you are meant to like Tripp, even though screenwriters Tom J. Astle and sitcom - savvy Matt Ember abandon all hope of squaring the childish, spoiled - by - Mom slacker that Tripp appears to be pre-Paula with the far more competent, complicated, and sensitive thirtysomething adult he proves himself to be later on.

A movie that might have seemed amusing a couple of decades and four or five rewrites ago, but plays like an unsold sitcom in the post-Sopranos world.

At its worst, Rosewood plays like the kind of ridiculous, over-the-top drama with which a sitcom character becomes obsessed.

Like many first - time writer - directors, she packs five films» worth of drama, crises and revelations into one, and often lapses into sitcom triteness.

The whole Ava talk show business feels like it belongs in a more satirical sitcom of its own.

You're the Worst may feel like another example of snappy, snarky «new» sitcoms like Difficult People and Casual, but beneath its crisp dialogue beats the indefatigable heart of an old - fashioned romantic comedy.

The debut screenplay of Rob Lieber feels as if it could have been written by paying special attention to secondary storylines of ABC sitcoms like «Modern Family» and «The Middle.»

However, the script just isn't able to deliver as much as it should, and the result feels like a half hour sitcom stretched out to full - length feature proportions with a lot of filler in between the funny parts.

The film plays like a delightful cable sitcom: not too bawdy but with just the right amount of sass.

Kevin Can Wait kicks off the official first week of the fall TV season and simultaneously takes the biggest possible step backward, looking like a sitcom that belongs in the fall 1997 lineup.

As directed by first - timer Billy Kent, The Oh in Ohio plays out like an extended HBO sitcom, full of adult humor, modestly popular stars, and writing that knowingly plays irreverently to its target audience.

It plays out far more like the future television series «Barney Miller» than it does MASH, except that the creators of the mid-70s sitcom at least had the insight to make it primarily a comedy with occasional bits of drama, instead of cramming both together in nearly every scene.

I am glad that Jules and Grayson seem like a steady thing, not going for the typical sitcom route of «on and off relationship» that we have seen with Ted and Robin, Ross and Rachael, Leonard and Penny... I was worried that that would be the deal - breaker for Cougar Town, but the writers don't take the obvious route.

Where one of the strengths of Wan's «Insidious» movies was their plausible family dynamics (including Barbara Hershey's wonderfully meddlesome grandmother), «Chapter 3» so often feels like a second - tier 1980s sitcom that you spend a good deal of the film wondering if Whannell was aiming for parody (like last year's viral short, «Too Many Cooks»).

It's like an anniversary clips show for a long - in - the - tooth sitcom, filmed with the same sort of production values as a backyard porno and scripted (by an uncredited writer) with almost exactly the same kind of ear.

The unforgiving microscope of the media can be harsh to women, and that goes double for someone like Jennifer Aniston, whose bread and butter was once being a winsome sitcom star who could trigger trends with just a haircut.

There are moments of contrivance and predictability, but they are deftly handled by director Saul Metzstein (Guy X, The Name of This Film is Dogme95), who keeps the movie from descending into pure sitcom even when it seems like that's the only place it is able to go.

Where the movie loses what oomph it has is in the cutaways to the ostensibly high - style canoodlings of Megan's roomie and her boyfriend, which look like outtakes from a particularly dopey CW sitcom, and of course the commit - cute finale in which the «Meant For Each Otherness» of it all is asserted.

Shouty stand - up Nick Helm has been a regular on panel shows like» 8 Out of 10 Cats», and played the lead role in BBC sitcom «Uncle».

Most damagingly, the complex relationship between Hawn and Kurt Russell — who plays a pre-beatnik trumpet player — is reduced to clichéd notions of fate, complete with chaste, sitcom - like love scenes and breathy «the war, woe is us» voiceovers.

While it may promise some action bombast and movie stars, Greg Mottola's Keeping Up with the Joneses basically operates at the level of a network sitcom, and not a critically acclaimed one like Black - ish or Fresh Off the Boat.

While the series is presented in the new standard 16:9 aspect ratio, it even sort of looks like an old sitcom.

What makes the Russos such an interesting choice to direct Captain America 2 is that considering the specific voices of the sitcoms they've directed, it seems like they have a real knack for preserving the work of writers and actors by helping them best display what they've created while still putting their stamp on something.

Between you and the last shuttle home in time for tea and spacecakes is the bastard son of the dad from the sitcom Dinosaurs, and Nintendo's Bowser — a lizard - like dude called Brood Master Vrax.

The film's wittier bits indicate Anna's sense of situational irony, like when she misleads a woman at Kate's party by giving her morbidly incorrect details about her sitcom's new season.

The effect is like watching one of those moralistic sitcoms, a la «Different Strokes», where a new calamity happens to the same family every week, to the point where you wonder just how unlucky can one household be?