Anyone plan on checking out this series? Interesting premise and the way it's shot ...
Kevin Can F**k Himself is an American
dark comedy television series created by Valerie Armstrong, who also serves as an executive producer. It follows Allison McRoberts, a
sitcom wife played by
Annie Murphy, who escapes her confines and becomes the lead of her own life, using a format which blends both the
multiple-camera setup typical of many mainstream American sitcoms when Allison is with her husband Kevin, and the
single-camera setup more common to contemporary television when she is away from him.
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I watched the pilot episode this afternoon.
It is a interesting series. It is a Dark Comedy that somewhat has a Sci-Fi/ Thriller feel to it.
I will say before going forward, if you are a In-Cell, Woman hating cat, don't bother reading further and do not bother watching the series.
What makes the series interesting is that it is two series in one. One part is filmed like a standard TV Sitcom that is brightly lit that you will see on the major networks. It is filmed like "Home Improvement" and "King From Queens" and other sitcoms like it. The other part is filmed on film and is much darker when viewed similar to dramas like "Sons Of Anarchy" and "Justified".
Those standard TV sitcoms that you are familiar with over the past 40 years, they were male dominated series. The Husband went thru the episodes as a bumbling goof saying stupid shit and there will be the laugh track after his jokes which usually were corny. The husband would always forget their wedding anniversary, the wife's birthday or some special occasion or event earlier in their life. The Wife was always the butt of his jokes. And the husband's relatives, friends and co-workers would joke on the wife at her expense with the standard laugh track.
And that is basically how the series starts and plays out. When you watch, the scenes with the wife, husband, relatives and friends is in sitcom format. When the wife steps out of the room, it changes to the other format and you will see how she is upset with her marriage and life with her dumbass husband. It goes back and forth thru the episode.
The series is from the wife's point of view, not the husband's.
What is not explained at this point is what is the real life and what is the fake life. The pilot episode did have one scene when one relative was seen in the dark version. And there was another scene with the husband/relatives in the dark version (I won't spoil what happens but it's a dark, graphic scene). Both were quick scenes so it was hard to determine what was going on in relation to the sitcom part.
It's also not clear if the wife is going thru severe depression, suicidal or having a mental breakdown. It's also not clear if any of what we are seeing is real or fantasy or what.
Like any series, I suspect clues were in the first episode, but I most likely did not pick them up. I will re-watch the pilot later and then make a decision to watch future episodes.
And this does not seem to be a series to watch weekly. It comes off more as a binge series. So I might have the episodes stack up before I re-watch in the near future.
The series is Executive Produced by Rashida Jones
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