Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Konterr Brilliant and touching

Sharkflei Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

dandbone So, I'll start off with the pluses. It's actually a period soap. Each character is well developed. Many of the jokes are built up in previous episodes, so there isn't much discontinuity.The story is about a rich family living with their servants in a mansion. Unlike in other period movies, the servants are treated as subhumans, in a way that reminds me of Mary Antoinette and her "Let them eat cake!" comment. Lots of jokes are derived from this class distinction. The thing I love most about this series is that they joke about many taboo subjects: rape, incest, child and spouse abuse, class, racism, animal violence, homosexuality, religion, abortion and American icons like Eleanor Roosenvelt and Mark Twain.Unfortunately, they felt like exaggerating with the sex and bodily fluids jokes, which is probably necessary to attract the dumb audience.

Scott-101 To say the show is rich with talent is an understatement. David Koechner is the family patriarch, underrated character actress Natasha Leggero lends her talents in a rare staring role as one of the two sisters (Riki Lindhome is also OK, although I feel she's better suited to be partnered with Kate Micucci), and Hamish Blake, Michael Ian Black, Brian Huskey, Paget Brewster and Brett Gelman are all excellently cast in character roles. Christina Hendricks (who's mostly known for period drama) dives into her role as a scheming servant with an unexpected amount of enthusiasm. Michael Ian Black is also one of those characters who sticks out (even in poor episodes) as a character who really puts the "serve" in "subservient" with the character of Peepers.Peepers is a rich character and fully-formed but seeing him on screen only serves to remind about how deficient all the other characters. Peepers' desire to serve the other characters in the story make little sense because pretty much everyone else is an extreme caricature. Either that or they're the most inhumane collection of people in history. It would be like watching Peter O'Toole act opposite third graders.The main drawing point of the show (and what keeps it watchable) is that it's a fun historical piece. Although Another Period doesn't have the production values of a period piece, the show has fun with history on a superficial level. Matt Besser plays Leon Trotsky, Kate Flannery plays Annie Sullivan, Ben Stiller plays Charles Ponzi and Chris Parnell plays Sigmund Freud in clever historical twists although it's fairly clear that these historical figures aren't researched beyond what will earn an easy laugh. Similarly, the show also presents us with a hyperactive Gandhi and though Clone High already went down that road a dozen years ago, it's good enough for a chuckle. The show is too sloppy to be taken as much of a satire and its characters are too cruel to be taken sympathetically or even seriously. Despite the negative tone of the review, it's still watchable and worthy of a laugh here and there.

Paul Bb Ummm is this so bad its good? or so good its bad????? I don't know ... What I do know is your either going to love it or hate it OR like me who knows he should hate it but oddly love's it ... well i keep watching it ... and laughing ... so that means I like it doesn't it? OK OK so some are going to be really offended by some of the content so if you have suffered from any sort of abuse in the past its best you give this a miss So the question is do I recommend you watch it NO! and YES! hope you found this helpful..... Oh seems I haven't rabbited on enough to post this ... so this is just like Dooo Dow Duto oh Something or the other whatever Abbey ... NOT REALLY just waferling to fill up space.... I DON'T CARE IF YOU THINK THERE IS A SPELLING MISTAKE JUST LET ME POST IT ..... PLEASE!!!!

Ben Smith I really love the cast for this, most of them are returning from the less well known web series "burning love" which was a spoof of the bachelorette type shows, also very good if you like shows like this. This one so far is not quite as spot on with its critique of reality TV but promises even more surreal wackiness, more in the vein of NTSF:SD:SUV or Children's Hospital, much of which the cast are also involved in. So its no surprise that this is already batshit crazy and full of eccentricities, i basically just watch everything they make recently because its bound to be hilarious. I wish June Diane Raphael played the part of the bitchy older girl, and the crazy blond one is a crackup but other than that the supporting cast are definitely a show stealer. David Wain is once again killing it as a foppish not-so closet homosexual. My favorite line so far is "your new name is chair". The persistent and creative abuse of their servants makes for delightful comedy. Indubitably.Also, cocaine wine. Nuff said.