Watching Fox’s wonderfully creative and ridiculously entertaining new series, The Last Man On Earth, you can’t help but laugh (it’s a comedy--duh), but also be truly and utterly impressed.
There may even be a few cheers for the audacity, inventiveness and achievement of Will Forte (Saturday Night Live), who created and stars in the show and has filled it with a warm, goofy spirit that always feels oddly appropriate to the subject matter.
Love, love, love the Last Man on Earth!! Hilarious! Finally a show that is lighthearted about the big catastrophe... How fun to think you could live anywhere and go anywhere!
Will Forte and co-creators Phil Lord and Christopher Miller have created something truly unique and brilliantly funny, the best thing I've seen on TV for many years
For a show that shouldn't really work at all, Last Man works pretty well. A lot of that is Forte, who makes Phil kind of dumpy and sad and gross, but also clever and resilient.
The first half-hour is all setup, and while entertaining in its own way, with just one character, it's insular and unlike anything else on TV, which is always a tough sell for viewers conditioned to expect more of the same. The second episode gives Phil a much-needed sparring partner, which is funnier than the gags during his solitary existence.
There are times when it rubbed me a little the wrong way, but I suspect that might be intentional, part of the longer game. Phil is a hero who needs work. Forte projects an innate normality, an averageness and equanimity, that keeps his characters companionable, even at their most extravagant, astringent or abnormal.
The Last Man on Earth has a unique, committed comic sensibility. But the pacing of the first hour is a little slack, as Forte returns to the same comic well a few too many times before an inevitable twist gives the second half a different energy.
Forte himself isn't bad, it should be added. But like the human race when it seems to be down to a single person, the show doesn't feel like it has much of a future.
Gotta love the "esteemed critic" review by David Hinckley, who thought that the show only starred one person.... (Will Forte). Ummmm..... Yea.... Try watching more than the first 10 minutes before you write the review you got paid to write.
The first 2 episodes were great, and then it all went downhill.
I'm stuck with this awkward feeling, with the main characters been so obnoxious and annoying.
I went through the first season and started the second.
I keep feeling bad for both of the main characters.. guess this one isn't for me.
I would recommend watching the first episodes to see if it's for you. It's close to good at times, but there's a lot of **** basic humor in here. There are some good jokes too. It did get genuine laughs out of me on several occasions. The mere thought that they may try to stretch this into a longer series makes the concept seem stretched by the 10 minute mark. If it were a guaranteed 10 episode series (like on netflix or HBO) then I may be on board. With a little bit of hbo quality control and a little more darkness this actually could be a show worth watching.
This show started out so strong, and then after episode 3 it was just a rerun of people trying to position themselves to get laid. As soon as January Jones entered the picture, the whole premise became about getting into the sack with her. Kristen Schaal is excruciatingly funny and her timing and lines are perfect. As fun as Will Forte starts out in episodes 1-3 he plummets pretty quickly into going full ****, and JJ just... sits with it like it is normal behavior. The show stops exploring the "we're the last people on Earth" and starts with petty squabbling over who gets to **** who. Instead of exploring the world they are in, and the "last man on Earth" the show just starts introducing new and uninteresting characters (okay Todd is amazing!), but everyone else are just vanilla characters to fight over continuously who gets to screw January Jones' brains out!.
Never seen anything start so good and transition so poorly into nothing.