SummaryBased on Justin Halpern's book I Suck at Girls and set in the 1990s, Jack (Christopher Meloni) is left in charge of his children, Frankie (Connor Buckley) and Rachel (Claudia Lee), after his wife decided to enroll in law school.
SummaryBased on Justin Halpern's book I Suck at Girls and set in the 1990s, Jack (Christopher Meloni) is left in charge of his children, Frankie (Connor Buckley) and Rachel (Claudia Lee), after his wife decided to enroll in law school.
I cant believe this show was cancelled!!!! Huge mistake!! my husband and i laughed so hard. love the characters and real life relationships. please bring it back :(
Absolutely amazing show, I adore it. It shows people the best kind of humor.
Personally I was born at the end of the 90's and if what this show shows is true I sure did miss a lot
Jack's "surrounded by idiots" misanthropy and drill-sergeant parenting threatens to wear thin, but Meloni sells it with an underlying intelligence and empathetic warmth.
What's wrong here are some of the same elements that have made the 2013-14 network comedy crop one of the weakest in memory--not enough laughs, not enough of a show that feels like it has something interesting to say (and wants to say it).
I love this show! My husband and I laugh out loud. My 21year old daughter is now hooked. I told my friend who watched 5 shows back to back. Great writers. Love all the characters. Keep this on tv. No more realty shows. Please
I love the show and is one of the few shows I look forward to each week. I just read that Fox has cancelled Surviving Jack. What? You have got to be kidding me! Do these executives watch their own shows? Do they read what their viewers say? Do they care?
While I do not find it to be a bad show, I do find it to be a disappointing one. Christopher Meloni is fantastic with his straight-faced, yet completely sarcastic and crazy character. His dry way of giving his hilariously sarcastic lines and delivering his character's more insane moments is a blast. It's just a shame that everything around him falls short. The only other good thing about the show is Tyler Foden. Whenever he and Meloni are not on screen the show just sort of losses the majority of it's humor and settles on just being passable. It's a real shame.
Like I said the show hasn't been bad so far, but it fails to live up to it's tremendous potential. Also it's 1990's setting does absolutely nothing for it. There have so far been no clever references to anything that went on or was popular at that time like you would find in "The Goldbergs." Currently there are better sitcoms out there, but there are also a lot worse. As of right now "Surviving Jack" just manages to be a decent time waster. Maybe as this season progresses it will get better. If opinion changes as the show progresses I'll update my review. As of right now I give it a 6.5/10-Okay.
Someone needs to inform EFYevan, below, that you are not entitled to write a critique about a show you turned off after 1 minute. But having read his useless review that just adds another problem I have with this show. I missed that episode but I have to say, for a show that takes place in 1991 clicking on porn would be sort of impossible. First porn site wasn't until 1994 or 95. Sure you could see digital porn but you weren't clicking on porn sites in 1991.
OK so 30 minutes of awesome parents who know just the right thing to say as life unfolds in upscale neighborhoods might be must see TV for some. But it's the 21st century and I guess I just expect a bit more than rehashed Wonder Years.
Compared to the Goldbergs, Jack and the Millers, the one TV family I might actually want to spend time with is the Millers.
I'm not sure how many "coming of age" tv shows the world can handle. I hated the Goldbergs at first. This show is nothing but the WASP version of the Goldbergs.
I suppose there's a certain charm to pretending your childhood was so fascinating, as undoubtedly you also believe about yourself, that we all want to sacrifice 30 minutes of our precious time to watch you grow up. But I'd be lying.
My wife and I stopped watching after the very first minute - the first "joke" was about a young boy clicking on p o r n and we realized that this show is not for our family.