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- FOX
- Jan 3, 2016
- FOX
- Jan 3, 2016
Summary The animated comedy from Mark Hentemann and Seth MacFarlane focuses on two families living near the US/Mexico border.
Created By: Mark Hentemann
- FOX
- Jan 3, 2016
- FOX
- Jan 3, 2016
Summary The animated comedy from Mark Hentemann and Seth MacFarlane focuses on two families living near the US/Mexico border.
Created By: Mark Hentemann
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
46
20% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
47% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
33% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
46
20% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
47% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
33% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
[A] terrific, boundary-busting comedy.
Bordertown, despite sometimes stooping to pick low-hanging fruit, is actually surprisingly smart and funny, an equal-opportunity offender that energetically rips into every side of the immigration debate while demonstrating enough of an absurdist streak to balance out its snark.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 41 User Ratings
4.4
32% Positive
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
24% Mixed
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
44% Negative
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 41 User Ratings
4.4
32% Positive
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
24% Mixed
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
44% Negative
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
I stumbled across this show while watching reruns of hotel hell on Fox Now, and I was curious to see what other shows were available.
Eight episodes later and I am enthralled. This show is absolutely hilarious. From the old Looney Toon esque skits at the beginning of each episode, to the bumbling white family, to the respectable mexican family. I found this show to be a fun ride that I hope to see more of.
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SEASON 1
With “Family Guy’s” Seth MacFarlane serving as an executive producer, you know what you are in for--rude and crude jokes.... What’s unexpected is how much Bordertown resembles “All in the Family.”
MacFarlane and Hentemann already have pumped all of these wells all but dry, which leaves Bordertown with its ramped-up topicality and little else.
Bordertown isn't the racist, xenophobic mess you might fear ... but it suffers from exactly the sort of blurry perspective you'd expect from a show that was originally ordered over two years ago — the kind of tonal and storytelling unevenness you'd expect from a still-settling new comedy and a lack of appealing characters that makes it hard to want to return to see how the show evolves.
As subtle and amusing as a brick border wall.
The jokes that do take on topical issues rely on cheap stereotypes (about both Mexicans and working-class whites) rather than anything insightful. The character design makes everyone look ugly and vapid, which at least matches the dialogue that comes out of their mouths.
I enjoy all kinds of comedy, but Bordertown truly fails at retention. I watched a couple episodes and didn't feel the urge to go back for more. I'm a Seth McFarlane fan and thoroughly enjoy social commentary through animated comedy, but this show seems lost in direction. Sometimes the jokes don't land the punch and other times the characters are abhorrently shallow. Bordertown isn't cutting it so far.
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SEASON 1
ok well i love comedy i love all kinds of comedy usually animated comedys can make me laugh atleast once not this show it was highly offencive for one like all white people are actually this stuck up as the father on this show was its an insult really i was highly disapointed its not orignal its sure as hell not funny and it pokes fun not only at whites but latinos as well cant we just get along and have a decent laugh at no ones expece
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SEASON 1
I just watched the debut episode of Bordertown. It's a new Seth McFarland series on Fox.
That's 30 minutes of my time I'll never get back. Unfunny stupid characters doing unfunny stupid things. All the overused McFarland hallmarks are there, too, including the worst: A character makes a comment and then that comment plays out, literally, in an overlong break-away vignette.
I guess American/Mexican relations across the boarder is a timely topic. But the points made are way too bone-headed to matter.
Yuck.
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