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- Netflix
- Apr 14, 2021
- Netflix
- Apr 14, 2021
Summary Single dad Brian Dixon (Jamie Foxx) wants to be the best father to his teenage daughter Sasha (Kyla-Drew) with the help of his own father (David Alan Grier) and sister (Porscha Coleman) in this comedy inspired by Foxx's relationship with his daughter.
Created By: Jamie Foxx, Jim Patterson
- Netflix
- Apr 14, 2021
- Netflix
- Apr 14, 2021
Dad Stop Embarrassing Me!
Season 1
Season Premiere: Apr 14, 2021
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Summary Single dad Brian Dixon (Jamie Foxx) wants to be the best father to his teenage daughter Sasha (Kyla-Drew) with the help of his own father (David Alan Grier) and sister (Porscha Coleman) in this comedy inspired by Foxx's relationship with his daughter.
Created By: Jamie Foxx, Jim Patterson
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Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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70% Mixed
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10% Negative
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1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
49
20% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
70% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
10% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
It’s better than most other recent Netflix sitcoms (Country Comfort comes to mind), and that I admire how it incorporates racial issues that are on the minds of everyone who will be watching this show in 2021. And the season is blessedly short, with just eight 22-minute episodes to get through — seven if you skip the less-than-stellar pilot. Give it a go.
There is a germ of a good overall show there, especially because Kyla-Drew is already a mature comedic performer at the tender age of 17. The relationship between Sasha and Brian will be the key to whether Dad Stop Embarrassing Me! becomes anything but a showcase for Foxx to do his shtick.
A fossilized sitcom that time-travelled all the way from the 1990s, with one calcified gag after the next, punctuated by the occasional (fortuitously rare) discordant off-color joke. ... With its trusty old-school TV verities, hug-it-out moments, beats as familiar as any from "Father Knows Best," and a laugh track that's probably turned up a notch too loud — plus bonus points for a solid supporting cast — it'll probably be a hit.
It’s both too much and not enough, just like Dad Stop Embarrassing Me! is ultimately both too self-aware and oblivious. The series doesn’t trust its laugh track to flag the jokes for viewers; it extends the gags or finds some other way to double down. Likewise, what social commentary can be found in Dad Stop Embarrassing Me! is underscored but ultimately inadequate.
It's pretty much everything the exclamation point would suggest -- a star-driven exercise that's loud but not very good.
Corinne Foxx supposedly lent her teenage diaries to the writing team for inspiration, yet the show still reaches for the same old after-school special plotlines that family sitcoms have been wheeling out since time immemorial. ... The rest is a mix of racial comedy – the kind that’s a staple of American humour, but often sounds lazily regressive to British ears – and oddly glib nods to hot-button issues.
DSEM! never doesn't feel like The Jamie Foxx Show 2, with the showboating actor sucking up all the energy in the room despite having little character or plot developments to tackle. It doesn’t help that the series looks about as cheap and sparse as a WB sitcom, with conspicuous product placement clogging up the screen.
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