then youre in the minority.
Boondocks!!!!!
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then youre in the minority.
what? Why the fuck are you even watching the show then?
This ninja said season one sucked
I am pretty much with them, in their thoughts on this episode. The Dave C aspect, comes into play when I think of season 4, he knew it was a going to be a short while before people would complain, I like the old shit, why did they go this way....ect, I'm not saying every episode has to be a banger, but you should accept the episode for what it is, it's funny how they poked at the old heads saying they don't understand this new music and new artist, but them niggas was wildn back in the day too. It gave a look at the male female dynamics of females with this stupid notion of wanting a bad boy over stability, shit I say they did there job with this episode
It was horrible...just sat watchinghoping it would get better...
but it never did...
yeah i was looking at the clock and thinking damn shit almost over and im still not entertained.
It could have been a damn good episode but it missed the mark
maybe im going to hard on it or maybe im just looking to laugh to hard idk but it wasnt funny to me. They proved great points about how old folks dont keep up with the young shit and they was spot on with the whole chris brown angle. Only thing missing was the humor thats all and i have a feeling that most of these episodes will be like this hopefully im wrong
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I won't be watching the rest of the season...
I thought this review was on point. The episode sucked.
http://www.vulture.com/2014/04/seitz-the-boondocks-season-4-review.html
I'll be brief about the fourth and final season of The Boondocks, the Adult Swim series about ten-year-old black militant Huey Freeman, his gangsta-wanna-be kid brother, Riley, and their nonsensically yammering, ladies-loving caretaker, Granddad. There isn't much to say. It's not terrible, but it doesn't seem like itself. It's a zombie show, like the Dan Harmon–less fourth season of Community. Something's off. You can't figure out exactly what, but you can feel it.
Series creator Aaron McGruder, who adapted the animated show from his own newspaper strip, isn't involved anymore. The series' long-delayed final season proceeded without him, after he and the network disagreed over a schedule for delivering new episodes (the details are fuzzy; McGruder's statement is here). Adult Swim sent out two episodes for critics, tonight's and next week's. They’re being shown out of sequence. Tonight's episode is marked as "402" and next week's is "404." The second has no writing credit. The Los Angeles Times speculates that "The absence of a writing credit indicates that the installment was likely written by McGruder." I'm not sure how the missing writing credit makes it "likely" that McGruder wrote the episode; it seems it could just as easily indicate that the episode was rewritten without his consent and he wanted his name taken off it, or that it was written by committee and nobody could agree on credit (or blame), or that there was some other behind-the-scenes craziness we don't know about. Maybe the Times has inside information it can't attribute for whatever reason?
No matter: The plot, about an abusive, drug-addled, entourage-addicted, Chris Brown–type rapper named Pretty Boy Flizzy, is more leaden and tedious than most Boondocks episodes, and considering how often the show was accused of being "unfunny" (which is often White People code for "too angry" or "too inside" — sometimes both) that's saying quite a bit. During his heyday, McGruder, like South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone, pissed off pretty much everybody. But he drew particular ire for his race-centric humor. He was accused of not being positive enough, of using the "n"-word too often, of airing African-American cultural dirty laundry and so forth (the late '80s Spike Lee complaints). Not every episode or every joke landed, but the show had a unique look and feel, with Korean-animated, anime-inspired, often strikingly composed shots. And the somewhat slippery rage animating every episode made it muddled but intriguing, and tough to pin down. The Boondocks and its creator slagged Bill Cosby, BET, Whitney Houston, and Larry Elder (who sarcastically named an award for him, the McGruder). McGruder pissed off Republicans by visiting Fidel Castro and calling former National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice a mass murderer, and Democrats for insinuating that Barack Obama wasn't really black.
But even when McGruder's ire was scattershot and confused, and even when he seemed painfully young, you could sense the man behind the art. It was as personal as a rant by Uncle Ruckus. These two new episodes don't feel personal. In the Pretty Boy Flizzy episode, the singer's lawyer, Thomas Dubois, observes Flizzy's sneering criminal antics and ultimately learns how to be A Man and make women respect him (with his fists, natch). Every joke is driven into the ground with a sledgehammer, the subtext of much of the humor is both racist and sexist, and hip-hop culture itself is depicted as uniformly misogynist, cynical, and dumb. When Flizzy tells Tom that "Women have no self respect," it's clear that we're supposed to take him at his word. There's something unnervingly sock-puppet-ish about the whole thing, like reading a Fox News story online and coming across a comment by somebody who has an African-American avatar but is spewing exactly the same reactionary nonsense as everyone else on the page, in the same words, and in the same tone. Except for Flizzy's montage of apologies — which includes a mea culpa for fighting with Nicki Minaj in the VIP section of a nightclub after mistaking her for a Terminator — it's depressingly flat.
Next week's episode — the one without a writing credit — is a Breaking Bad parody in which Grandpa starts cooking homemade Nap-B-Gone hair straightener in a mobile home, the better to support his habit of taking his "fine bitches" out to eat. It's slightly more tolerable than the Flizzy episode, but long stretches feel less like a freestanding comic episode than a checklist of Breaking Bad jokes, and even at its best, it's no "Thank You for Not Snitching" or "Guess Hoe's Coming to Dinner." I hesitate to declare The Boondocks dead, but minus its creator and his peculiar but striking voice, what other choice is there?
http://www.vulture.com/2014/04/seitz-the-boondocks-season-4-review.html
I'll be brief about the fourth and final season of The Boondocks, the Adult Swim series about ten-year-old black militant Huey Freeman, his gangsta-wanna-be kid brother, Riley, and their nonsensically yammering, ladies-loving caretaker, Granddad. There isn't much to say. It's not terrible, but it doesn't seem like itself. It's a zombie show, like the Dan Harmon–less fourth season of Community. Something's off. You can't figure out exactly what, but you can feel it.
Series creator Aaron McGruder, who adapted the animated show from his own newspaper strip, isn't involved anymore. The series' long-delayed final season proceeded without him, after he and the network disagreed over a schedule for delivering new episodes (the details are fuzzy; McGruder's statement is here). Adult Swim sent out two episodes for critics, tonight's and next week's. They’re being shown out of sequence. Tonight's episode is marked as "402" and next week's is "404." The second has no writing credit. The Los Angeles Times speculates that "The absence of a writing credit indicates that the installment was likely written by McGruder." I'm not sure how the missing writing credit makes it "likely" that McGruder wrote the episode; it seems it could just as easily indicate that the episode was rewritten without his consent and he wanted his name taken off it, or that it was written by committee and nobody could agree on credit (or blame), or that there was some other behind-the-scenes craziness we don't know about. Maybe the Times has inside information it can't attribute for whatever reason?
No matter: The plot, about an abusive, drug-addled, entourage-addicted, Chris Brown–type rapper named Pretty Boy Flizzy, is more leaden and tedious than most Boondocks episodes, and considering how often the show was accused of being "unfunny" (which is often White People code for "too angry" or "too inside" — sometimes both) that's saying quite a bit. During his heyday, McGruder, like South Park's Trey Parker and Matt Stone, pissed off pretty much everybody. But he drew particular ire for his race-centric humor. He was accused of not being positive enough, of using the "n"-word too often, of airing African-American cultural dirty laundry and so forth (the late '80s Spike Lee complaints). Not every episode or every joke landed, but the show had a unique look and feel, with Korean-animated, anime-inspired, often strikingly composed shots. And the somewhat slippery rage animating every episode made it muddled but intriguing, and tough to pin down. The Boondocks and its creator slagged Bill Cosby, BET, Whitney Houston, and Larry Elder (who sarcastically named an award for him, the McGruder). McGruder pissed off Republicans by visiting Fidel Castro and calling former National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice a mass murderer, and Democrats for insinuating that Barack Obama wasn't really black.
But even when McGruder's ire was scattershot and confused, and even when he seemed painfully young, you could sense the man behind the art. It was as personal as a rant by Uncle Ruckus. These two new episodes don't feel personal. In the Pretty Boy Flizzy episode, the singer's lawyer, Thomas Dubois, observes Flizzy's sneering criminal antics and ultimately learns how to be A Man and make women respect him (with his fists, natch). Every joke is driven into the ground with a sledgehammer, the subtext of much of the humor is both racist and sexist, and hip-hop culture itself is depicted as uniformly misogynist, cynical, and dumb. When Flizzy tells Tom that "Women have no self respect," it's clear that we're supposed to take him at his word. There's something unnervingly sock-puppet-ish about the whole thing, like reading a Fox News story online and coming across a comment by somebody who has an African-American avatar but is spewing exactly the same reactionary nonsense as everyone else on the page, in the same words, and in the same tone. Except for Flizzy's montage of apologies — which includes a mea culpa for fighting with Nicki Minaj in the VIP section of a nightclub after mistaking her for a Terminator — it's depressingly flat.
Next week's episode — the one without a writing credit — is a Breaking Bad parody in which Grandpa starts cooking homemade Nap-B-Gone hair straightener in a mobile home, the better to support his habit of taking his "fine bitches" out to eat. It's slightly more tolerable than the Flizzy episode, but long stretches feel less like a freestanding comic episode than a checklist of Breaking Bad jokes, and even at its best, it's no "Thank You for Not Snitching" or "Guess Hoe's Coming to Dinner." I hesitate to declare The Boondocks dead, but minus its creator and his peculiar but striking voice, what other choice is there?
WORD! That shit was wack! They replace McGruder wit dem white folks from Hollywood Shuffle... 'Dey Kill-did Ma Brutha!'
i didn't think it was that bad. The message about the music industry was on point..
not sure what you guys were expecting. if you want to be
most had their minds made up before the show even came on.
Its a comedy, so I expected to laugh at least once... I also expected witty satire on par with previous seasons, but all we got was a stale Chris Brown episode that's 5 years too late...
I came in open minded, but the shit was beyond wack.
yeah i mentioned something similar in the other thread
The episode lost whatever punch it had when they basically implied that the Flizzy character faked most of his criminal behavior. The whole "punch me so your wife will think you're a real man" act was just some Happy Days BS.
No way McGruder writes that.
No way McGruder writes that.
Anyone else notice that the animation / artwork is not as 'crisp' as it has been in the past? Or is it just me?
Too many loose edges & reckless lines. (Where's Drayonis at. Maybe he can see it too.)
Something is off.
Shit is distracting.
They needed Aaron Macgruder to enforce 'quality control' to keep everything tight.
To be honest, the show is barely funny and the animation looks like Jesse is cooking the batches, instead of Heisenberg.
It's decent.
But it's not the same.
Too many loose edges & reckless lines. (Where's Drayonis at. Maybe he can see it too.)
Something is off.
Shit is distracting.
They needed Aaron Macgruder to enforce 'quality control' to keep everything tight.
To be honest, the show is barely funny and the animation looks like Jesse is cooking the batches, instead of Heisenberg.
It's decent.
But it's not the same.
i noticed it.. i thought is was because i had never watched it in high def...Anyone else notice that the animation / artwork is not as 'crisp' as it has been in the past? Or is it just me?
Too many loose edges & reckless lines. (Where's Drayonis at. Maybe he can see it too.)
Something is off.
Shit is distracting.
They needed Aaron Macgruder to enforce 'quality control' to keep everything tight.
To be honest, the show is barely funny and the animation looks like Jesse is cooking the batches, instead of Heisenberg.
It's decent.
But it's not the same.
I didn't want to be the first to bring it up, but yea... the animation looks kind of hazy, and a bit off now for some reason...
Anyone else notice that the animation / artwork is not as 'crisp' as it has been in the past? Or is it just me?
Too many loose edges & reckless lines. (Where's Drayonis at. Maybe he can see it too.)
Something is off.
Shit is distracting.
They needed Aaron Macgruder to enforce 'quality control' to keep everything tight.
To be honest, the show is barely funny and the animation looks like Jesse is cooking the batches, instead of Heisenberg.
It's decent.
But it's not the same.
shit, Jesse had that shit to about 97% by the time Todd and them had his ass tied to that chain.
Maybe that's why McGruder kept putting it off. Maybe he wasn't proud of it and just kept pushing it to the side like "ehh...we'll add some shit to it tomorrow." And before he knew it, like 2-3 years went by and shit.
And then Sony was like "fuck it, just give us what you got...oh this is good enough."
That's what the last two seasons feel like.
And then Sony was like "fuck it, just give us what you got...oh this is good enough."
That's what the last two seasons feel like.
Anyone else notice that the animation / artwork is not as 'crisp' as it has been in the past? Or is it just me?
Too many loose edges & reckless lines. (Where's Drayonis at. Maybe he can see it too.)
Something is off.
Shit is distracting.
They needed Aaron Macgruder to enforce 'quality control' to keep everything tight.
To be honest, the show is barely funny and the animation looks like Jesse is cooking the batches, instead of Heisenberg.
It's decent.
But it's not the same.
I noticed the animation looked sort of different when they showed Ruckus
and Tom is a boring character anyway
This episode is trash too
was watching the game aint even care to put it on
This episode is trash too
C/S
that was worse than the 1st one if thats even possible.
Man...
That was probably one of the worst episodes of the whole series can't front
That was probably one of the worst episodes of the whole series
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