- Network: Netflix
- Series Premiere Date: Jan 12, 2017
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The show is broad, for sure, but it has some distinctions. It’s best strength is the warm ensemble, led by Bates. ... The issues underneath the humor--the threat of corporate takeover, the medicinal applications of pot, the cultural shift from defiance to compliance--pull the show in interesting directions.
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Disjointed is a thoroughly professional, overall pleasant, largely painless piece of work. The cast is good company; the jokes land often enough (only a few in the four episodes available for review felt actively ugly).
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Though many of the show’s jokes center around pot humor (one episode ends with a character sitting in her parked car, convinced she’s driving down the highway), there’s also some depth.
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Some of those moments are humorous, others feel like non sequiturs (perhaps appropriately), but even the weirder, not-so-funny interjections make it seem like somebody's trying. And, perhaps they all make more sense from a heightened state.
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Based on the limited evidence provided by Netflix, Disjointed is also discombobulated and too often dim-witted. There’s some cleverness amid its clutter. But Bates was better served as the bearded lady in American Horror Story: Freak Show.
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Based on what I have seen, Disjointed is a series that takes some minor risks but more often caves into the laziest of sitcom clichés. The degree to which you appreciate it will depend largely on how much you’ve enjoyed other previous Lorre works.
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There really are only spotty suggestions of a situation within each episode. And yet, it’s often funny, and many of the characters are oddly appealing--or just appealingly odd--and the rest are at least have amusing moments.
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Ingesting Disjointed is pretty harmless. You might get a buzz, though. There are a few laughs, but I can pretty much assure you that you won’t get addicted.
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Working to hold together the disparate bits and pieces are a likable cast lead by an easygoing Bates, sporting an inconsistent accent, but landing laughs through the show's genial haze.
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If viewers are high enough to think the laugh-track supported sitcom is just another one of the show’s parodies, rather than its core story, perhaps all these muddled blades will come together for an easy burn. That doesn’t say much for what’s there, though. Remove the joint, and Disjointed falls apart.
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The comedy here consists primarily of jokes that would not have been out of place on one of those old Cheech and Chong comedy records. ... The rest of the time, it’s strictly sitcom writing at its most rote.
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Bates convinces as a hippie trying to resist transforming into a curmudgeon, and her performance would truly soar in a show that endeavored to contrast Ruth's charisma with a sincere exploration of her flaws. But Disjointed refrains from such inquiry, feigning intelligence through vulgarity and unfocused irony.
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If the substance of Disjointed seems straight out of 1972, so does its structure.
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While "The Big Bang Theory" producer Chuck Lorre clearly felt liberated plying his trade for Netflix, the resulting stoner comedy, Disjointed, runs on fumes.
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The result is a mess of a comedy that doesn’t feel as if it belongs anywhere.
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A second-rate multi-camera laugh-in filmed before a live studio audience.
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Disjointed is ultimately trying to do too many things at once, and as a result just feels sloppy.
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Lorre and Javerbaum disguise Disjointed’s monotonous humor with an intrusive laugh track and cutaway spoofs of TV commercials for potato chips and Marlboros that are funnier than the jokes delivered by Bates and company.
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Most of this show is stupid stoner humor. ... There aren’t enough drugs to find the funny in Disjointed.
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Disjointed operates on another plane of altered consciousness, which may begin to explain this genial, harmless misfire.
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Disjointed doesn’t quite offend as much as its unyielding and unfunny flippancy renders each episode null and void as an experience.
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Across the board, Disjointed is marred by very broad, yell-y acting, with the cast straining to sell woeful jokes that range from tired pothead stereotypes (boy, are they forgetful!) to vulgar double-entendres.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 70 out of 98
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Mixed: 4 out of 98
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Negative: 24 out of 98
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Aug 30, 2017
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Aug 30, 2017this series is really disjointed in a way we know right? , and that is all about. if you dont like it is because you dont understand it. I love it. =D
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Sep 1, 2017