“One of the worst series of the year” – critics criticized the new star comedy Netflix
God’s Favorite Idiot, the new Netflix comedy from Melissa McCarthy and her husband Ben Falcone, has been heavily panned by critics.
Told in eight episodes, the comedy centers on Clark from The Falcon, an unremarkable tech support worker who, after being struck by a special lightning bolt, somehow turns out to be an unsuspecting messenger of God.
Suddenly endowed with an angelic glow, All Might tasks Clark with saving humanity from the apocalypse. McCarthy plays his colleague and love Emily, while Leslie Bibb and Kevin Dunn play supporting roles. Falcone wrote all eight episodes and the series was directed by stand-up comedian Michael McDonald.
The show’s concept, which is fairly close to the hit comedy Evan Almighty, is one of many things that reviewers of the show, which debuted on Netflix last Wednesday (June 15), mentioned in their reviews. of which were kind.
The show currently holds a 22% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, down 3% from Mike Myers on the Netflix platform The Pentaverate, another show that has received omnipotent critical acclaim.
John Doyle of Globe and Mail (will open in a new tab) called the show “one of the worst shows of the year”, adding that “…the 30-second commercials on network TV have more sass and imagination than this bunch of God-centered nonsense.”
William Hughes of The A.V. Club (will open in a new tab) lamented the show’s “sometimes endless willingness to get bogged down in the puns of office life”, while Daniel D’Addario of Variety (will open in a new tab) ran straight into McCarthy and called the show “…a waste of precious time in the career of a talented performer whose fans will follow her anywhere and who rewards them with so little of what she can do.”
Maria E. Gates of The Playlist (will open in a new tab) said that “God’s Favorite Idiot” was cluttered with “too-simple and overly convoluted storytelling, underdeveloped characters, and cheap design.” FROMhe was kinder than Anita Singh of the Daily Telegraph (will open in a new tab)who accused Falcone of giving McCarthy “… carte blanche to make her chip loud, rude and generally unbearable, mistakenly believing that everything she says or does is hilarious.”
Only Lucy Mangan of The Guardian (will open in a new tab) had something nice to say, but even she added in her three-star review that God’s Favorite Idiot “isn’t going to bother any awards commissions.”
Analysis: Will it care about Netflix?
Depends on how many people watch the show. Considering it currently ranks third in the top ten most watched Netflix shows, it seems like a lot of Netflix subscribers love the show, even if the critics don’t.
McCarthy and Falcone previously filmed Thunder Force for Netflix and worked together many times on films such as The Boss and Superintelligence, which were commercially successful.
Interestingly, Netflix originally ordered 16 episodes of God’s Favorite Idiot, but lowered that order to eight to judge audience reaction. Judging by the reviews, this will only be the eighth and eighth releases, but Netflix does not make a show for critics, and if it did, it would not release another part of the brain-killing erotic thriller 365 Days …
