On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 4:01 AM, JW <[email protected]> wrote: > To my surprise, it didn't suck. Maybe it's because they didn't use > many recurring characters, and MacFarlane did a decent job of acting. >
I agree, except I am even more impressed with MacFarlane. I am not a regular watcher of any of his programs, and have only inconsistently appreciated them when I do, but I thought he was among the smoothest and most natural performers of recent hosts not named Justin. The political comedy was only mediocre - ironically, on the first show with the new Obama, they choose an angle on the election that would have worked better with Armistan (Obama is stiff and disconnected, but he's not worried because Romney and Ryan are so bad). Also, while I think they were trying to be equal opportunity by poking at the summer ad that implied Romney was responsible for the death from cancer of a worker who lost his health insurance (I will give them a pass on that, even though that was not actually an ad by the Obama campaign, the idea that Obama is running commercials that he can not really be proud of is fair), the way they did it I suspect a lot of people found them to just reinforce their negative views about Romney. If I were a Republican I would not have been pleased. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
