Comedy Isn’t Dead, But You’ll Wish These New Sitcoms Were: New at Reason

It’s week two of fall premieres, and television critic Glenn Garvin is not impressed with three new sitcoms: Happy Together, I Feel Bad, and The Neighborhood:

Not all modern television technology has been for the better. I, for one, much preferred the days when sitcoms aired with manufactured laugh tracks rather than the sound of dying pigs screaming in Hell, which is mostly what I hear when watching this week’s new fall comedies.

Some of them are one-note. Some of them are no notes. Some of them have flat lead characters; others have lead characters you’ll want to mount on a spit and roast over open coals before using the toxic carcass to poison your neighbor’s yappy little dog. None of them will tempt you to laugh, though you may feel a sharp desire to send death threats to their producers.

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