- Network: NBC
- Series Premiere Date: Aug 5, 2015
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Where Robinson excels are in the scenes with him leading his funk band.... The series, however, sticks too much to the sitcom formula, telling 22-minute stories that are all too predictable.
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Likable, if sometimes flat.
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Mr. Robinson is not great, not bad; it’s just okay.
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A rote sitcom and an embarrassment for all concerned.
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[A] dreary show that has all the edge of a doughnut hole and comes slathered with an astonishing amount of sexual innuendo for a network sitcom.
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It's rarely funny (at least intentionally), never affecting, and has the narrative cohesion of a Dick and Jane reader minus the cute drawings of Puff the Cat. It is, however, weirdly interesting.
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Writers (and co-executive producers, among others) Mark Cullen and Robb Cullen have an uneven and not 100% original touch here. But sitcom magic is difficult to make, and at least Mr. Robinson has a few tricks in its bag.
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[Robinson] is funny, and there are fleeting reminders of that.... Then it all goes sour, and flat.
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The few worthwhile themes are subverted by absurd, borderline-racist characterizations and ribald pop-culture-referencing dialogue that tries way too hard.
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Mr. Robinson has an appealing star in Craig Robinson, but the show itself is gratingly forced and formulaic.
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For every charming and genuinely funny moment--and there is a fair amount--there is a lazy sitcom trope that stunts Mr. Robinson and depletes it of its promise.
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Mr. Robinson is not horrible; or when it is, it is only in passing. (The cast is good, there are some laughs.) It just feels weak and fatally retrograde.
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Nothing in the episodes sent out for review suggests that Mr. Robinson will be much more than your typical summer burn-off series--quickly aired, quickly forgotten.
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Robinson obviously has some fun riffing at the keyboards (Brandon T. Jackson plays his brother and bandmate), but everything about the show has an exhausted, late-’80s vibe.
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Robinson is still appealing, but he’s surrounded by a gaggle of sitcom stereotypes.
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There’s hardly a line from Mr. Robinson’s six-episode run that doesn’t provoke cringing rather than laughs, with Robinson himself left to inject a little of his comic personality where he can.
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This is one of those shows with some promise in some of the characters--and even potential chuckles at the better, weirder jokes--but so clearly emits the sad stench of yet another comedy that that’s been cooked too long in a network oven.
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Incompetence, of course, can be funny, but only if served with some originality. Nothing about Mr. Robinson is fresh or imaginative. Even Mr. Robinson, who has said the show is based on his life, looks bored.
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The plotlines of the various episodes have been repurposed from shows so old, they were broadcast in black and white.
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Everything about this show is more of a mis-fire. [27 Jul - 9 Aug 2015, p.12]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 20
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Mixed: 5 out of 20
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Negative: 11 out of 20
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