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- CBS
- Oct 1, 2018
- CBS
- Oct 1, 2018
Summary Jake (Damon Wayans Jr.) and Claire (Amber Stevens West) lives are changed when Jake's client, a 20-something You-Tube-celebrity-turned-pop-star named Cooper (Felix Mallard) moves in with them to avoid the paparazzi in this comedy from Austen Earl and Tim McAuliffe.
Created By: Austen Earl, Tim McAuliffe
- CBS
- Oct 1, 2018
- CBS
- Oct 1, 2018
Summary Jake (Damon Wayans Jr.) and Claire (Amber Stevens West) lives are changed when Jake's client, a 20-something You-Tube-celebrity-turned-pop-star named Cooper (Felix Mallard) moves in with them to avoid the paparazzi in this comedy from Austen Earl and Tim McAuliffe.
Created By: Austen Earl, Tim McAuliffe
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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33% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
44% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
22% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
48
33% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
44% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
22% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
The producers are excited to create more absurd fun for their comic duo, and the audience should be happy in the long run, admiring a knowing farce at a time where the world’s dark buffoonery needs to be ignored. Happy Together may not become an iconic sitcom, but it’s already a pretty good source for happiness.
The jokes could use some polishing, and the concept could easily grow old in a hurry, but the trio of Wayans, Stevens West and Mallard nudge this one a solid notch above your average network sitcom.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 23 User Ratings
5.4
52% Positive
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
17% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
30% Negative
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 23 User Ratings
5.4
52% Positive
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
17% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
30% Negative
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
Nothing particularly interesting is done with the premise. ... But Wayans and West develop an increasingly comfortable rapport as the episodes go on, and West is enjoyable all the way through, funny without breathing hard.
It fundamentally lacks a point-of-view or anything that help it break free from the generic--even as its stars struggle against a tide bearing them back to the bygone era where this show’s jokes seem to have originated. ... Stevens West and Wayans are both young and fun-to-watch, and do their oddball-couple routine without Cooper better than they do the script’s overwrought dithering over whether or not they’re washed-up.
Tthe season’s slightest new sitcom on a network that has done much better by this genre in recent seasons with the likes of Young Sheldon, Mom and Life In Pieces. In this case, the premise simply has no foreseeable promise.
To the extent that there's a coherent thought in Happy Together's empty head, it is that 35 is the new 50. That sedate married couple is played by Daman Wayans Jr. and Amber Dawn Stevens (The Carmichael Show), ages 36 and 32, respectively. As for the pop-idol interloper, he's played by Felix Mallard, a giant soap star in Australia, where charisma is apparently measured much differently.
It's surprisingly good. I haven't watched a show with piped in applause like this in a LONG time, but the two lead actors are perfect for it. She's amazing! (Loved her in Greek.)
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SEASON 1
It has it's moments of slapstick, however it seems forced, over rehearsed and too meticulously timed. It really throws me off how Amber West and Damon Wayans Jr.'s characters are suppose to be so much older than this young rock star's character, which would insinuate that they've been married for a long time, yet in every episode, they're acting all giddy and giggly with one another as if they're still on their honeymoon! They're acting too phony and overly dramatic... especially Wayans. It doesn't look believable. And another thing: They've got this cute little so-called rock star living with them for FREE!? So this kid is making some big time Hollywood money, and he's not giving Jake and Claire a cent for his rent or food all because he had a little emotional breakdown at the beginning of the series and they're okay with that!!?? I don't think so! **** believable! Then there's the intrusive, alcoholic parents. Thank God the writers threw THAT in there because it's not like we haven't been seeing THAT in every other comedy sitcom for the last 50 years!! AGAIN!!... not believable. I gave Happy Together a generous 5 because despite it's many flaws, it is great to see Stephanie Weir and Victor Williams again. I can see there was some attempt to make this show entertaining, and it does have it's funny moments, but overall, this show makes NO attempt to show us something new and refreshing - something we haven't seen before. It's just not happening here.
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SEASON 1
The misogynistic jokes and tropes re the female characters in this show fall very, very flat in any case, but in today's environment they feel especially tone deaf. What a disappointing waste of two incredible main actors in Wayans and Stevens West; even their comedic talents can't overcome a terribly dated concept and a terribly written script.
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SEASON 1
Probably the dumbest, cringest **** i've ever seen for a while. The resemblances between the "girlfriend" character and Taylor Swift in a desperate use to catfish viewers was pathetic
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SEASON 1