I watched it. It was pretty good.
I’ll take Tim Allen over Carroll O’Connor any day.
Yahoo’s only saying “both are bad” because Last Man’s ratings were great and Murphy Brown’s were terrible.
If it were the reverse, the spin would be talking about that.
It was not deep and biting like VP or any of the other crap on the “premium” networks. But it’s still one of the top 3 sitcoms on TV nowadays.
This moron thinks espousing family values is “banal.” Screw him, her or it, however it chooses to be addressed.
I have to say, though: the new Mandy was cringeworthy in the season premiere.
Last Man Standing was just fine, centered around the eldest daughter and family moving to Canada. Great Canadian jokes.
I just watched it. It was good. The first five minutes were digs at their previous network. They were not kind. Heh.
I do NOT know who this author is. I don’t care who he is.
LMS and Tim Allen more closely represent the voters who put Trump into the Oval Office than any other entertainment out there on TV.
We have had over 40 years of Left Leaning shows, and Madame Secretary, West Wing, and others don’t appeal to us.
The late night ‘comics’ are NOT comical, and Johnny Carson & Jay Leno are sorely missed.
The Left has never understood the working class voters in the USA & they never will. Perhaps when the shooting stops & the landscape has been cleared of all the filth, it won’t matter.
Just saw it. Very good. Hilarious how they watched their own show on TV, theme song and everything! And commented about the network that cancelled their show. I’m noncommittal on the new Mandy, though.
Ken Tucker is certainly no regular family man. LOL The regular family man would recognize a lot of himself in LMS. Amazing, isn’t it? How Ken can be so lacking in his maleness and not even be aware of it.
We watched it and thought Tim hit a home run. Glad Fox had the good sense to air a great comedy show.
I don’t know who the stick in the mud is that wrote the yahoo critique, but he got it all wrong!
This is a great sit-com - the best one on TV. I wish it were an hour long!
The new Mandy will take some getting used to!
Glad the rest of the cast is back - new Boyd will do just fine.
As for Vanessa, she and Mike are just right for each other!
I’ll watch the new show every week, and will keep watching the old shows. By the early evening, Mrs. Taxman and I need an hour or so of great comedy! Last Man Standing is it!
I watched and enjoyed it. Glad the show is back. This Yahoo reviewer is full of BS. LMS had record ratings on Fox with its return. Murphy Brown’s premiered to low ratings on Thursday. The article also stated that LMS was cancelled on ABC because of low ratings. Not true. LMS was second highest ratings show on ABC when they cancelled it. Yahoo is a far left news source.
I watched it and thought it was very good. I’m glad they were able to get almost the entire cast back. The new Mandy will take a while to get use to, but I’m willing to give her a chance (remember, there was a different Kristin in the first season.) I hope they also bring back Jay Leno as Joe the mechanic. I thought the interaction between Leno and Tim Allen was hilarious in the previous seasons.
Several belly laughs! Glad I tuned in. Never had watched it before; but now I’ll make a point.
It was outstanding!!!
I was reading the article thinking, “what show was this guy watching?” I’ve always thought that Vanessa’s character was VERY well fleshed out, from having a doctorate in geology, to trying so hard not to offend minorities, to her love in making cringe-worthy puns, to her move from working for an energy company to becoming a teacher. My guess is the loser-writer simply never watched the show, and decided that he couldn’t get everything he needed to know about her character from a single episode.
Something else though... I really loved LMS, but the show after it, “The Cool Kids,” is really hilarious as well. David Allen Greer, Martin Mull, a miniature southern gay guy - Sorry, the guy is a hoot, I just can’t recall his name, and Vicky Lawrence, who absolutely stole the show. For a first episode, which even for excellent series, are often shaky, it was really very good.
Mark
I liked the way they did it...enough political slaps to show it’s a show for conservatives and also the bit about how so few of us seem to talk anything but politics these days.