The Big Show Show: Season 1 Review

The latest game news from IGN - one of my fave channels ever - check it out "Welllll...it's a sit-com!" Despite many folks online, about a month back, thinking Netflix's The Big Show Show was some type of goof/prank, it's very very real. Quasi-retired WWE Superstar Paul "Big Show" Wight is the lead of a new family comedy where he plays a fictionalized version of himself as an ex-wrestler attempting to start the second (or third) act of his life as stay-at-home dad and husband in Tampa. Naturally, this project has the potential to be either wholly terrible or fully great. The truth, overall, lies somewhere in between as Big Show proves himself to be an amiable, glowing, towering "family man" capable of carrying multi-cam sitcom shenanigans. Of course, the caveat here is that The Big Show Show is a broad and earnest family comedy. It's not meant to be shrewd or biting; it's warm and cuddly - something parents can watch with their young kids and not utterly despise. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=the-big-show-show-season-1-gallery&captions=true"] Younger-skewing sitcoms can be done well, obviously. Whether we're talking '80s greats like Different Strokes or Growing Pains or more recent basic cable fare like Nick's iCarly and Victorious, or Disney's Wizards of Waverly Place or Suite Life of Zack & Cody. The Big Show Show is nestled somewhere in the middle, as '80s comedies tended to traipse into the darkened theater of "Very Special Episodes" where they'd tackle drugs, sexual assault, and even serial killers (yes, I'm looking at you, Punky Brewster). Latter day teen/family shows got serious too, but not like they did decades ago. The Big Show Show lightly touches on conflict and challenge, but it's too saccharine to do anything more with it than provide traditional sitcom beats. That's not an awful thing, it just is what it is. It's a show that won't drive parents crazy, though it's also not one of the truly great family shows to binge. Also, keep in mind that wrestling fans (like myself) will engage with this in a different way and curiosity will drive a ton of viewing. And then those who only know Big Show as a cursory pop-culture character might still get a kick out of the fact that - well - the mean's huge. Yes, there's a wee bit of joy to be derived from seeing someone so big interact with others who only come up to his navel. It's just a dichotomy that works, and helps to separate this particular show from the rabble. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/03/26/new-to-netflix-for-april-2020"] Story-wise, Show (he's referred to as "Show" by his family on the series, as he is in real life) struggles to come to terms with his retirement from WWE while his strong-willed teen daughter, Lola (Reylynn Caster), from a previous marriage, and colder climate, comes to live with him and his wife and kids in Tampa. While Show bounces around from autograph gigs to attempts at a new career, Lola tries to adjust to her new setting and sisters. Show's other two daughters, dramatic Mandy (Lily Brooks O'Briant) and scheming J.J. (Juliet Donenfeld), don't work quite as well as the Show/Lola relationship because they're both bigger and wackier sitcom personalities. They're good, but their heightened nature is more meant to color the Lola arc. Show's wife, Cassy (Allison Munn), comes very close to becoming a typical "mom of four when you count the husband as an extra child" type, but The Big Show Show wisely gives her some foibles and fumbles of her own so that she's not the cliched bad cop. In fact, the most mature character on the show is Lola, which makes sense given her gently-broken home circumstances. I'd be remiss if I didn't mention Jaleel White, Family Matters' esteemed Urkel, in a recurring role here as Terrence Malick (a nod to...the director?), Show's perky pal and local health club owner. White's a fun partner in crime for a few of Show's off-book antics and he's giving an admirably anti-Urkel performance as a fast-talking fool. In a strange way, even given Show's mammoth size, White lends some weight to the proceedings.

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