Oh, hey! Kelsey Grammer’s in a new sitcom called “Hank,” everybody! He’s so talented! And ABC has recently created terrific comedies like “Modern Family” and “Better Off Ted,” so this sounds promising. Let’s take a look at the reviews…
- “Lazy, predictable and spectacularly tone-deaf.” [Star-Ledger]
- “Breezily ungrounded… comes across as empty condescension.” [Miami Herald]
- “In “Hank,” pompous comes off as merely pitiful. Or it would, if you could waste even a moment feeling sorry for anyone but the viewers, for whom the laugh track’s likely to serve as a bitter reminder that somewhere, someone else is having a good time.” [Philadelphia Daily News]
- “One of this fall’s absolute worst new shows… the sort of lame, predictable set-up, joke, set-up, joke that nearly killed the traditional sitcom… unbelievably bad. ” [Deseret News]
- They made two versions of the pilot episode of “Hank,” both of which leave unfunny whiffs of doom in their wake. I nevertheless remain clinically fascinated by the show’s lameness… “Hank” is less of a sitcom than a show about sitcom assembly. It belongs in a diagram about sitcoms.” [Washington Post]
- “A moronic and ghastly effort that suffocates under the cloying and annoying blanket of a laugh track so disturbing it should be destroyed. As should the show.” [SF Chronicle]
- “I had to down two Red Bulls to get through the 22 minutes of torturously unfunny dialogue… One of the worst new (or old) comedies of this or many other seasons.” [NY Post]
Doctors have also determined that watching “Hank” gives you brain cancer. And superAIDS. Maybe I’ll just stick to last night’s “Sons of Anarchy” on my DVR. Or, you know, gouging my eyes out.
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But is it any good?
All those papers are pinko commie rags! At least thats what I hear Kelsey Grammer is saying.
That tattoo on Kelsey Grammer’s chest doesn’t say “Die Critics, Die.” It’s German for “The Critics, The.”
Those reviews are recycled reviews for the CW line-up.
Well I thought Hank was gonna be pretty good.
I thought that Hank was on A&E?
/I’m almost done thinking that that is funny. Almost.
All this show gets from me is a dismissive hanking motion.
the laugh track’s likely to serve as a bitter reminder that somewhere, someone else is having a good time
↑That is one of the most clever burns I’ve ever seen. Bravo.↑
Yay, Butters is back.
ABC’s previous outing with Grammar had a scene with him wearing a strap-on backwards. It wasn’t picked up and never aired.
I am not making this up.
Give the critic for the Philadelphia Daily News a show that was fucking hillarious
I’m so glad this is getting panned. I wonder how many episodes it will take to bring on the sweet relief of cancellation.
Note: Last season there was a quickly cancelled show on FOX starring Grammer and Patricia Heaton called “Back To You”. You may of heard of it during the commercials to the 3-4 shows on Fox that people actually watch. ABC proceeds to give each their own sitcoms that air back-to-back (“Hank” and “The Middle”.)
And you give Better Off Ted WAY more praise than it deserves.
I don’t know how you could title your article such, even in jest. I went here because I actually watched the first 20 minutes before I fell asleep and couldn’t believe that anybody – civilian or critic – could have liked this show. I like Kelsey Grammar, generally speaking, but this show stank unlike any I have seen in the last 10 years and I watch a lot of TV being disabled.
The title of your article sounded incredulous and after reading it I found myself a little mad that you got me to come here and read it.
At least the show he did w/Heaton was pretty decent and if it hadn’t come along when the writer’s strike happened it might have made it. It was 20x better than this crap.
You know, if he’s missing his paydays from “Frasier” (1.8 million per episode) than he should get the cast back together and do another 11 years of it. That would be better than this.
At least then my son will have had a kid by then and I could say that 4 generations of my family had seen the show and it could say it was the longest running show in history, barring game shows.