Note: this is a spoiler-free advance review of the first episode of FOX's Cooper Barrett's Guide To Surviving Life, which will premiere on Sunday, January 3rd at 8:30/7:30c.
The spirit of 1986's Ferris Bueller's Day Off - and the Ferris-inspired 90s series Parker Lewis Can't Lose - limply lives on in FOX's new under-the-radar "meh" comedy Cooper Barrett's Guide To Surviving Life. A series that follows the hectic, whacky exploits of cocky, underachieving recent college grad Cooper (Jack Cutmore-Scott) and the ragtag, zany group of friends and family who orbit him.
Has the premise of "clever, smirking young men who break the fourth wall" already had its day? Perhaps. There's a chance Cooper Barrett could get funnier as it goes along, but the fundamental issue here - based on this first episode - is that the lead is the dreariest, least-formed element of the show. Cooper himself is a bland mess of textbook sitcom tropes and Gen X hair. More interesting are the people in his life - namely the ensemble of James Earl, Charlie Saxton, Meaghan Rath, and The Hangover's Justin Bartha. Bartha, who's probably the funniest part of this pilot despite the introductory story feeling very Hangover-esque (raging party, blackouts, kidnappings, etc).
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