Tacoma FD TV-Show Review 2019 Cast Crew
Creators:Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme
Stars:Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Eugene Cordero
For people of a certain age (read: those who were in college when the Super Troopers came out), the Broken Lizard group is a point of reference for silly-friendly comedy movies, a group of friendly humorists, eschatologically happy They excelled in extending the ideas of comedy in film form without requiring too much of their audience in terms of attention capacity. There is a fervent cult for the Super Troopers, even less for its sequel of 17 years, which ossified the charms of the original in lazy callbacks and awkward nostalgia. But for those who are still attracted to the attractiveness of the company's sensibility, there is now Tacoma FD.
Created by the founding lizards Kevin Heffernan and Steve Lemme, the truTV comedy basically transmutes quiet cops to their biggest success in quiet firefighters, though Heffernan replaces his real action character Eric Cartman with a gentler person. The premise is simple: Tacoma, Washington, is the rainiest city in the United States, and it leaves a lot of time for your firefighters team to be crazy, tease and ramble almost in particular for long periods. Sometimes they make jokes; other times, honestly, they just shoot the shit like any group of bored middle-aged men could do it. If this sounds a bit like a curse with a slight compliment, that's pretty accurate: this is a series that spends time with its nice cast, but it rarely does anything memorable enough to deserve more attention.
The program has an appropriate home on truTV, where it closes the gap between the time wasting of Impractical Jokers (somehow its eighth season begins!) And the insightful and insightful wit of I'm Sorry (one of the best comedies) currently on television), although he leans heavily in the direction of the former, in terms of humor, while borrowing the pleasantly homely vibe of the latter to sell his material. There is the fun-loving and kind Boss (Heffernan); the captain who loves fun and good character (Lemme); the foolish lover of fun and good character (Gabriel Hogan); the cynical lover of fun and good humor (Marcus Henderson); and the fun loving and kind boy who is a bit violet (Eugene Cordero). Oh, and after three episodes, we get the boss's daughter, fun loving and goodwill, (Hassie Harrison), to show that these guys, mostly interchangeable, can also have a fake version.
The comedy is presented in a contemporary vernacular, but it is often squeaky to the point of calcification, both for the aesthetics of the show and for the dialogue. Comic rhythms are often emphasized with a score full of skronks and down sounds from an 80s comedy, just so you know when you should laugh. It was filmed in a single camera format but reproduced as a traditional multiple camera, up to most of the scenes that take place in some places, usually inside the fire station. The show is overlit and poorly organized; Heffernan took care of the first two episodes, and probably was not the most accurate choice: his address is pedestrian, to put it mildly, which does not mark a great tone for subsequent deliveries.
The scripts themselves feel quilted in a way that draws a rather thin path. The first episode finds the Boss trying to take strong action against the "fools", and you will not be surprised to hear that it is not going well! The second episode is a series of jokes between the firemen and the police, and you will almost certainly not be surprised to hear the Chief's initial effort to suppress the hijinks that is not working at all!
The third episode finds the Chief's daughter joining the team as the new firefighter on probation, and by this point there is something very wrong with you if you believe that the Boss's efforts to eliminate habitual hazing are going well! Everything is as predictable as the tides, which is probably not the tone for which a show that includes a scene in which a fireman gives mouth to a cat, just to throw a ball of hair in his mouth . The characters choke on the laughter of their own dad jokes and kitschy words, but the line that separates these fragments from the real ones is more drawn than the characters, which really says something.
And yet, despite these failures, there is an indifferent appeal to the whole thing. His rickety pace and his generic riffs in the friend-bro mentality manage to emit a hairy dog charm, largely on the basis of his pleasant cast and easy chemistry.
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