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Impastor weakens its good work by trying a bit too hard.
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With Buddy's unorthodox ability to solve hid flock's problems, the sitcom flirts with comedy salvation. [10/17 Jul 2015, p.102]
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Buddy is the improbable antihero of a cheerfully improbable comedy. [13-26 Jul 2015, p.12]
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The plot contortions required to keep this going are straight out of a cartoon, and they threaten to take some otherwise nice characters with them.
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Impastor has a stronger point of view [than The Jim Gaffigan Show] but fewer laughs.
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Generally too predictable and slight to merit much attention.
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An occasionally funny new TV Land comedy.
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Rosenbaum has an amusing moment or two, but nothing to make anyone grin with the stereotypical wideness of the church’s gay staffer. The marginally funnier stuff occurs away from the parish.
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Impastor’s cleverest lines and riffs on religiosity are somewhat overwhelmed when the show gives in to temptation and becomes a zany caper
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It’s mildly amusing.
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The bits of writing with real teeth are crowded out by a generally broader and more winking comedy style and pacing that seems to be anticipating more laughter than the material could reasonably expect.
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Impastor plays right into the stereotypes. Impastor has an edgy veneer--but once it rubs off, you're left with an entirely ordinary show.
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In keeping with the TV Land niche, this is a throwback series, but a throwback to a lot of things that should have been left, well, back. It also reaches too readily for gross-out jokes.
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Ultimately, it feels like one joke stretched far too thin, with the added complication that its jokey approach to religion is likely to offend some people without compensating for that with thoughtful satire.
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Impastor’s comedy strands [Rosenbaum] in a tonal mess.
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Sara Rue shines, as usual, as the new pastor's secretary, Dora, but it's hard to see even Rue keeping this one from collapsing under its own stupidity.
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Rosenbaum is charming, and so is Sara Rue, as his assistant at the church. But pretty soon, the dumbness begins to settle in.
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Nothing is at all believable in the script, and nothing’s very funny, either. On top of that, the charm and abilities of Rosenbaum and Sara Rue, who plays the church secretary, are wasted with bad writing.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 24 out of 35
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Mixed: 6 out of 35
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Negative: 5 out of 35
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