- Network: FOX
- Series Premiere Date: Mar 31, 2015
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The principals are all good.... And there are funny lines.... At the same time, the show feels something shy of essential.
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Weird Loners is not so fresh as its title might presume. Its protagonists are more familiar than strange, and their stories are clichéd.
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It has an appealing cast (here's hoping, in particular, that this is not the last we've seen of Kumbhani), and there are moments when actors and material mesh, as in a gleeful group attempt to lip-read a wedding. But then those moments pass, and the show falls back on jokes that are either creaky (could we please have an overweight character who isn't bitter or blissfully stupid?) or cruel.
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Weird Loners wants to be a cheeky howl on behalf of the unloved, but it does little to elicit sympathy or laughter from its familiar, humorless, formulations of weirdness and lonesomeness. [3 Apr 2015, p.58]
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The sitcom starts with one of the best introductions to a group of losers. By the end of the third episode Fox provided for review, I was yawning and daydreaming about buying nail fungus remover.
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Weird Loners instead re-shuffles the aimless singles deck before falling well short of coming up aces.
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As is, the series spends an inordinate amount of time concerned with matters below the belt--including Stosh’s complaint that with Eric hanging around, he won’t be able to “choke the sheriff”--and delivers less charm or laughs than something like “New Girl,” itself a show whose most “adorkable” days appear to be behind it.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 14 out of 23
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Mixed: 7 out of 23
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Negative: 2 out of 23
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