Tag: Emmy Kadubic
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Raising Hope, “Say Cheese” and Running Wilde, “The Junior Affair”
If you’re a comedy that desires to wrap things up with something of a happy ending each week, there’s a fine line to tight-rope. As I’ve discussed relentlessly over the past few weeks, there seems to be a need to execute this approach in all the recent comedies, and that’s fine, but it’s really all about the…
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Raising Hope, “Dream Hoarders” and Running Wilde, “Oil & Water”
More so than new dramas, new comedies need time to grow, time to tinker, time to generally figure out what the hell the series is going to be about and where the jokes are going to come from. It’s easy to hate comedies if they’re not unbelievably funny from the get-go, but in practice, that…
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Raising Hope, “Dead Tooth” and Running Wilde, “Into the Wilde”
I like the idea of writing up these FOX comedies together, so I’m going to keep it going, at least until one of them gets good enough to deserve a solo space. Both series had varying degrees of success in their pilot episodes and they both progressed with varying degrees of success. Neither series is…
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Series Premieres — Raising Hope, “Pilot” and Running Wilde, “Pilot”
FOX doesn’t have much like in the live-action comedy department. Aside from Arrested Development, there’s been nothing to write home about from the biggest broadcast network around, and that’s kind of weird. This season, the network is re-committing to the format with two series with famous pedigrees. And though it’s better that I don’t take…
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