First off I want to say that I really wanted to love Super Fun Night, I really did, but I hated the show that debuts at 9:30p on ABC. I even hated it more than I despised Whitney. I can’t believe I am saying that there is a show out there that I think is worse than Whitney, but I am.
Rebel Wilson is good as the bit part actress who steals a few scenes and she’s great on talk shows (which how we got stuck with this dud), but she sucks as a lead. She actually created a character that is very unlikable. I mean you should want to root for her, but you are not.
See Kimmy (Wilson) was a loser in high school and now she is grown up trying to be like one of the popular people at her job and when she hangs out with her three HS buddies. She works at a professional business and yet she acts like a dumb kid. I mean I am not even her boss and I would fire her a$$. I acted immaturely at work, but I never worked at place that called for me to be mature like her job. And that is just one of the many issues I have with the show.
See you guys are lucky that you not going to see the pilot. It was so bad and so hated (I am assuming from my lack of love for it), that ABC pulled it and decided to debut the show with the second episode. Well in these two episodes we have seen her in her Spanx, not once, not twice, but three times. It is not funny and I don’t want to see it. It is not a pretty site. I am not saying this because she is not skinny, I am saying it because Spanx without clothes over them look ugly. Seriously tonight’s show beings and ends with her in her Spanx. Why?
Rebel is also known for singing thanks to Pitch Perfect, a movie I quite enjoyed. Well tonight I found out as she sings Meat Loaf’s I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That) that she can’t sing. I actually shed a tear when she belts out the tune. One of the actresses turns her performance into a duet and that is the only thing that sort of saved the song for me. Meat if you are thinking of watching, please don’t. Take the money and run like a Bat Out of Hell with it.
Now when it comes to her friends on the show, Marika (Lauren Ash) and Helen-Alice (Liza Lapira) they are just as unlikable as Wilson and I liked Lapira on Don’t Trust the B—- in Apt 23. I mean the point of the show is here are three high school friends who were losers in high school and now is there chance to leave that all behind, but they don’t. Because of that, you just don’t like them and that makes it hard to like the show.
And don’t get me started on her boss (Richard Royce), he is the characterure of the blue collar worker who lands a top job because his daddy owns the company. He takes a liking to Kimmy because he is the black sheep of the family and she is everything his father would hate. We saw his type in so many movies in the ’80s and his character is just as unlikable now as he was then.
Finally there is the bitch (Kate Jenkinson) and she is the only I like on the show. That give you a hint how bad it is?
Like I said at the beginning, I wanted to like this show because I liked (yeah now I don’t any more because of this show) Rebel, I like the producer Conan O’Brien and I like sitcoms. But it is so bad that I hope it doesn’t hurt the trend of sitcoms having a much needed comeback.
My prediction this show will be gone by next Thursday because it will bomb after Modern Family and hurt the declining Nashville. What I hope is that ABC is wise enough to replace this show with The Goldbergs that is a perfect fit for that timeslot. The Goldbergs is the perfect family show and my prediction is that it will wind up being ABC’s biggest new show at the end of the season domestically. I think Agents of SHIELD will do huge internationally and The Goldbergs will great here.
