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- FX
- Sep 5, 2018
- FX
- Sep 5, 2018
Summary Four friends (Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton, Rob McElhenney, and Kaitlin Olson) run an Irish bar in Philadelphia in this comedy featuring Danny DeVito (he joined the show in the second season).
- FX
- Sep 5, 2018
- FX
- Sep 5, 2018
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Season 13
19 Seasons
Season Premiere: Sep 5, 2018
Metascore
Available after 4 critic reviews
5.7
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Summary Four friends (Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton, Rob McElhenney, and Kaitlin Olson) run an Irish bar in Philadelphia in this comedy featuring Danny DeVito (he joined the show in the second season).
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Season 13 proves McElhenney, Day, and Howerton aren’t out of ideas; the formula they’ve established still works beautifully, and allows them to stretch as far as their creativity demands.
Season 13 finally feels like there’s an actual world happening outside Paddy’s Pub, and—like several other terrible people in 2018—that world has something to say about The Gang. To be clear, this is a change for the better.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 30 User Ratings
5.7
47% Positive
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
23% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
30% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 30 User Ratings
5.7
47% Positive
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
23% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
30% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
With Dennis apparently leaving to start a new life in North Dakota, and actor Glenn Howerton starring in a new TV show, the biggest question going into It's Always Sunny's 13th season was just how much of him we'd see. The simple answer to that question is not enough...
The opening, largely Dennis free episode, marks a good start to the season but from then on it is a very mixed bag. When the gang are all together, such as in the episode "Times up for the Gang" the show comes pretty close to being as good as ever but characters such as The Waitress and Artemis, both funny as minor supporting characters, show that they're simply not capable of filling Dennis's shoes in the episodes where he's absent. Unless the entire gang are going to be together more often I'd rather this was the last we see of the show...
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SEASON 13
Probably the most inconsistent season of the show. Glenn's absence is very apparent and the steps that Sunny takes in a different direction are a bit clumsy. There are two genuinely fantastic episodes ("Time's Up", "Ladies Reboot") and an extremely touching finale, though, which makes me excited to see where the show goes next.
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SEASON 13
The season isn't yet over, but something seems different this year.
Every episode seems to have them tackling some modern issue, or trying something new and though i may learn to love it, at the moment, i'm constantly being brought out of the programme.
The first episode seems to be making fun of shows that introduce a new character and try to carry on as if everything is the same, but it isn't working. This is a clever idea and on repeat viewing, i quite like how they wrote the lines slightly wrong, made jokes slightly not funny and **** me into thinking 'oh no, my favourite show is doomed', then pulling the curtain back and saying, 'ahh, we're just making a point, we're still good!'
Something like this is interesting and clever, but many episodes seem to have a point to make, like the female reboot of the wade boggs' episode, the twist on a clip episode, the Home Alone homage, the 'MeToo' episode, the bathroom equality episode... all of these alone would be alright, not the best episodes, but one of the 'okay, not bad' episodes of a season. But altogether, they destroy the flow of the season and make it appear similar to how a band will release a B sides and rarities, where okay, it's great to have the extra content, but really, it wasn't on the albums for a reason.
I love always sunny and hope to learn to love this season, but at the moment, other than a couple of decent episodes, it's the worst of the 13 to me.
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SEASON 13
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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SEASON 13
This season can be summarized as "The Gang Sells Out." Some of the funniest and most original writing of all time has been replaced and/or "supplemented" with weak, "woke" writers like Danielle Schneider who all have a corporate-approved message they want to drive home. After all, Sunny's always tip-toed along the edge of what would now be considered "problematic" by a certain group of people, so it makes sense that the trend of toning down what they perceive as insensitive would one day reach Sunny.
To clarify, I'm politically a centrist. And it's true that Sunny has had some slightly political episodes in the past. "Charlie Goes America All Over Everyone's Ass" comes to mind. But ultimately, the joke was always on how inept and narcissistic all the characters are, and there was never a side implied to be "correct". Also, these episodes would be about one per season. Having a season entirely comprised of episodes like this, where a right and wrong side are clearly implied by the writers, feels patronizing, pedantic, and preachy.
As a side note, the overly meta observational humor throughout the season is typical of United Citizens Brigade (UCB) comedians like Schneider and, while that may work in improv from time to time, it's just so lazy from a writing point of view. If you're going to make a female reboot of an episode, just have the balls to do it (pun intended). Don't mention it 40 times in the same episode ffs.
I just hope next season can get back to comedy as the focus (which would require getting rid of these corporate-appointed writers, so it's unlikely).
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SEASON 13
This season was off and I guess you could blame it entirely on the new writers (cause the actors are *ucking great).
It seems they ran out of original ideas in the spirit of what motivates the gang, and also included side characters from previous seasons to distract from the stale scripts.
Only one episode stood out for me and it was "Time's Up for the Gang".
(The worst was "The Gang Solves the Bathroom Problem").
I really hope next season will include more of Dennis and hopefully we could see something like "The Gang goes to Mexico" or "The Gang goes to Prison".
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SEASON 13
