- Network: FOX
- Series Premiere Date: Mar 5, 2017
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This one doesn’t bother teaching any great lessons. It looks for the laughs, makes its points and gets out.
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Making History may get a D in real history but is passably funny in a hit-or-miss cartoonish way.
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It’s a messy, feather-light romp that establishes early on that, among other things, the past smelled pretty bad.
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The humor is low-brow and juvenile.
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What matters is the reliable humor of modern characters trying to pass for old-fashioned ones, and the old-fashioned ones acting modern.
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In short, Making History is supposed to revolve around the character with the least at stake, which isn’t terribly interesting, and in every episode it has to find ways to get around that problem. Pally’s a very funny guy, and Dan would make a fine supporting character. But as written, he’s not dynamic enough to carry the show.
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Fox's Making History at least has the decency to be a spoof.
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Making History doesn’t get everything right. But the series’ principal trio commit themselves fully, with Meester particularly fresh and appealing as a transplanted colonial having the time of her life as a newly liberated woman.
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Whenever Making History strings together a little momentum (as in the second episode, where it tries to appropriate the absurdist tones of Monty Python), the gains are offset minutes later by more and more dumb jokes.
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Making History loses a bit of steam after its near-perfect pilot, but the four episodes made available for review illustrate an infectious playfulness and creative spirit.
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Bouncy, wholehearted and totally flighty, in ways both good and bad, it might just have the stamina to keeping this past-traveling series continuing for the foreseeable future.
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So, yeah, poop and pee jokes. Not funny. Not clever. Not worth watching.
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It’s all very silly, but there’s bite beneath some of the yuks.
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The humor of Making History, created by a writer for “Family Guy” and “Dads,” is broad, sometimes borderline gross and pop-culture inflected. ... The jokes are also, with some regularity, funny and endearing, especially when delivered by Mr. Lester or Ms. Meester, whose portrayal of an earnest proto-feminist is the show’s best weapon.
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The show is fresh and amiable throughout, and Pally, Meester and Lester make for excellent time-traveling companions.
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As the lone comedy of the bunch, Making History feels like the more expansive concept, with the latitude to drop its central trio into a variety of settings. That's especially true if it can continue wryly using the past to effectively comment on the present.
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A likable but largely forgettable comedy.
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This newest Fox comedy isn't quite at the Brooklyn Nine Nine's level, but Making History is incredibly fun.
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The pilot has its intermittently amusing moments, but episode two, where the trio foments the American Revolution using 2016-era NRA tactics, proves stronger. A third episode involving travel to Al Capone’s Chicago, circa 1919, is fairly lackluster.
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Like all good time-travel stories, Making History is smarter when it acknowledges the divide between the way things were than versus the way things are now, or, sometimes, the ways in which things haven’t progressed at all.
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Created by Julius Sharpe, the sheer silliness of the show is infectious and the performances by Pally, Meester and especially Lester are terrific. John Gemberling and Neil Casey are great goofy fun as those good-time boys, John Hancock and Sam Adams.
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Ultimately, Making History feels like an awkward combination of “Family Guy” and “Timeless,” and it doesn’t quite fit into either mold.
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History won’t save the world or anything, but it’s a pleasantly goofy romp through the history books.
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The show spurts onto the air like ketchup spewed from an oversqueezed bottle, plopping frenzied mayhem all over everything.
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A bright dumb comedy for stupid-gloomy times. [24 Feb/3 Mar 2017, p.93]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 16 out of 31
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Mixed: 6 out of 31
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Negative: 9 out of 31
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