- Network: ABC
- Series Premiere Date: Mar 29, 2017
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It seems like a harmless little diversion at this point, with Elfman and Dratch playing well off one another in a fantasy that may have enough winning moments to survive its tough-to-pull-off premise.
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While Dratch infuses Mary with impressive energy, she interacts only with Alice, and the show comes off feeling lopsided as a result. [Mar 31 2017, p.57]
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Elfman is good (as usual), but Alice doesn’t give her a whole lot of room to expand either. ... There’s not much more here, other than those standard sitcom garnishments, and that spunky, chatty fuzzball.
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You don’t need a CGI delusion whose one skill is pratfalls. Elfman is game and charming, and Scarrwener could be the reincarnation of Janeane Garofalo. Imaginary Mary just needs to go away.
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Imaginary Mary would be more generic if it didn’t have Mary, but when she appears on screen with a grating voice that betrays Alice’s independent career woman id, it adds little comedy to the show.
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Yes, it's a fantasy, but it's an oddly off-putting one.
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Elfman’s character brings back her imaginary friend, Mary, from her childhood to help her deal. Mary, voiced by Rachel Dratch, is not funny, just annoying, extremely so.
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Despite going by a well-intentioned recipe, Imaginary Mary fails to stick any sort of landing on what it wants to say about its lead, except that she is being manipulated by a demon yeti with a personality as inconsistent as the show’s script. The entire cast--and the animators--deserve better.
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Proof of how dated and hacky Imaginary Mary is will come from actually watching Imaginary Mary.
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It’s haphazardness that most radiates from the sitcom. Imaginary Mary feels a little hasty and half-baked, with a few ideas that point to interesting concepts without the full force of consideration behind any of them.
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The show feels like it’s made up of pieces from several different jigsaw puzzles, the tabs jammed into the blanks with zero regard for compatibility. The result is a mishmash of tones, styles, and themes that’s about as appealing as Mary’s original, noseless-mini-yeti-with-a-good-dental-plan design.
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The real problem is that even if you buy into the show’s concept, it’s just not very funny or interesting. The only thing imaginary about Mary may well be the notion that it has a future.
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What it really needed, though, was somebody real to suggest they scrap the imaginary part.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 21
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Mixed: 2 out of 21
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Negative: 13 out of 21
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