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- Spike TV
- Jun 29, 2008
- Spike TV
- Jun 29, 2008
Summary Spike TV's first original comedy series is about four work-weary slackers in a small town factory and their efforts to avoid accomplishing actual work tasks. Strangers with Candy co-creator Mitch Rouse directs, produces, and stars in this offering.
- Spike TV
- Jun 29, 2008
- Spike TV
- Jun 29, 2008
Summary Spike TV's first original comedy series is about four work-weary slackers in a small town factory and their efforts to avoid accomplishing actual work tasks. Strangers with Candy co-creator Mitch Rouse directs, produces, and stars in this offering.
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
63
50% Positive
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50% Mixed
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Factory is the network's first try at a situation comedy and, surprisingly enough, it's neither perfunctory nor primitive. It is, in fact, one of the few pleasant surprises of the summer.
The comedy has a loose, improvisational feel to it, but is still pretty fast-paced. And the four characters are at their funniest just in the room alone, swapping lines with each other, an experience a lot of dudes in their 20s can relate to... or so I’m told.
Clearly flung at the Spike's male demo–-"Get More Action" is the network tagline, which implies a viewership not getting as much as it would like--it has a slightly sour edge that some will just read as The Way Things Are.
The humor is sexist, racy and often falls flat, but when it does work, it connects in a way a male-centric audience--and that's Spike's bread and butter--will appreciate.
It's not clear what this factory produces. But the show may be creating exactly the product its audience wants.
It's a mixed bag of un-PC attempts at blue collar humor as four guys yak and try to avoid doing their jobs.
The mood of dark comedy isn’t sustained. Factory quickly devolves into a meaningless slapstick of goofy faces and a forced awkwardness that suggests the vision of someone who has watched “Curb Your Enthusiasm” over and over but has still not figured out what makes it so funny.
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