- Network: IFC , IFC - Independent Film Channel
- Series Premiere Date: Oct 1, 2010
Watch Now
Where To Watch
| Buy on |
|
Critic Reviews
- Critic score
- Publication
- By date
-
Although every second of this comedy is far from genius, the disturbed mood and unique mean-spirited flavor of it all points to what the network comedies are so often lacking: bold choices that border on the absurd.
-
Cross wrings laughs from his clueless character, but the fish-(and chips)-out-of-water story isn't as consistent. Luckily, there is plenty of potential for Increasingly Poor to become increasingly good.
-
Proceed with caution into this foul but funny cauldron of catastrophe.
-
It's surprising that he's [Cross] written a sitcom so reliant on physical comedy, and cast himself in the rather one-dimensional, repetitive main role. The show's best lines possess a crackling absurdity.
-
As long as you're OK with comedy-of-the-uncomfortable, then IFC's The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret is by far the funnier of the two David Cross-Will Arnett series airing this fall (the other being Fox's "Running Wilde").
-
It isn't until the glimmer of a plot finally emerges, after Todd stumbles into a Middle Eastern market with a can of Thunder Muscle, eliciting sudden mysterious interest--that the series inches past mere mockery to the promise of more muscular misadventure.
-
Though it has moments of sublime satire and a typically memorable performance from Mr. Cross's "Arrested Development" colleague Will Arnett, it still has the feel of a dish that has been sitting on the table well past the point of cooling.
-
Told in flashback that implies things have gone terribly, terribly wrong, the ensuing gags are either lame or (for a U.S. audience, anyway) or culturally confusing--frequently falling back on blue language in lieu of being genuinely clever. A more fundamental problem lies with Cross, whose mixture of wide-eyed innocent/ugly American/myopic moron has no nuance to engender even a trace of sympathy for his plight.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
-
Positive: 18 out of 27
-
Mixed: 4 out of 27
-
Negative: 5 out of 27
-
Sep 8, 2011
-
Sep 29, 2010
-
Jul 30, 2014