Chuck Lorre's *Mom*

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Chuck Lorre's *Mom*

Postby cmsellers » Sat Nov 17, 2018 1:51 pm

Anyone here watch this show? It's very different, and I would say a lot better, than The Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men. It's a Chuck Lorre show I actually like, one I'm not at all embarrassed to say I watch.

And I think I realized why. The jokes are still hackneyed and unfunny, but if you see them as coping mechanisms from troubled people and not jokes that are supposed to be funny (I've gotten good at tuning out laugh tracks), it works really well as a drama. It is annoyingly preachy about Twelve Step Programs, which are of questionable efficacy at best, but the annoying evangelicalism also represents how the people who make them work often see them.

I can't tell if these are intentional decisions made by Chuck Lorre or if he really believes that the jokes are funny and every addict should be in a Twelve Step program, but the way the show is written, it just kind of works, assuming you can also tune out laugh tracks.
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Re: Chuck Lorre's *Mom*

Postby Australia » Sat Nov 17, 2018 11:42 pm

Sellers just created the backhanded recommendation. What an accomplishment.

If I wasn't going to see the show before, which I wasn't, I'm definitely not now. There are bad shows I enjoy because I can laugh at them but bad comedies don't work that way because the whole problem is you can't laugh at them. Now if they made a show called Bert's Mom, I may be intrigued but I don't think the fiction could get any more nuts than reality.
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Re: Chuck Lorre's *Mom*

Postby cmsellers » Sun Nov 18, 2018 12:33 am

Thing is, it's not a bad comedy, it's just an unfunny comedy. If you watch it as a drama, it works really well.
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Re: Chuck Lorre's *Mom*

Postby ghijkmnop » Sun Nov 18, 2018 4:16 pm

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Re: Chuck Lorre's *Mom*

Postby cmsellers » Sun Nov 18, 2018 5:06 pm

ghijkmnop wrote:Cathy and I have been watching this one since season 2. I enjoy it quite a bit, but its shameless devotion to the 12-step method as the "only true way" is pretty annoying-- the same annoyance applies to Elementary.

That annoyed me a bit too, but given that a lot of people in 12 Step programs are actually like this and Kristy's friends all come from her AA meeting and therefore reinforce such views, it doesn't annoy me as much as it might.
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Re: Chuck Lorre's *Mom*

Postby Australia » Sun Nov 18, 2018 11:58 pm

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