![]() It’s 30 pancakes, but as with everything else in Forrest MacNeil’s life, it’s so much more than that. Don’t you want to see what the second installment of pancakes could possibly be? Watch that one, and, hell, you’ve already watched him eat 15 pancakes. Anyone should be able to enjoy Andy Daly dressed as Batman trying to get his son back, though (“Being Batman”). I was deeply in love with it from the start, but bits like a misunderstanding of language that causes Forrest to commit himself to serious mental care (“There All Is Aching”) really require you to take a few steps as a viewer. It’s a wonder the show worked with so many people. ![]() That gives the whole thing a meta feel to it that layers over the darkness you feel genuinely bad for Andy Daly while you also feel that Forrest MacNeil deserves what he gets. He makes bad choices and stands to gain nothing from them beyond fodder for a show. He ruins his own life to make these “reviews” for his show, but even the show itself doesn’t matter. Forrest is a character that’s alternatively really depressing and really infuriating. They can eat garbage or mail people their hair or whatever they are beyond simple changes now. If you’re on board for what Sunny has to say about the world - that nothing really matters as long as you’re totally oblivious - then you’re on board for everything else they do to their characters. Dennis on Sunny is likely a murderer at this point, so the show can play around with him being “just an asshole” for a little while with no real fear of those little slights making him unlikable in that moment. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia works while other shows about terrible people don’t because the characters in Sunny are getting worse in really slow, specific ways. He’s game for anything - anything - because he has to have the first-hand experience to “review” it on his show. He believes that by experiencing divorce in a happy marriage he can impart wisdom to the world. It’s that Forrest truly believes he’s making something that matters. It’s not the divorce itself, that part’s not funny. It’s no spoiler to tell you that “Pancakes, Divorce, Pancakes” gets a little dark, but the it’s all more interesting than most shows that get labelled “dark.” His character is defined by the lengths he’ll go to for the “perfect” review. I normally don’t think “you’ve just gotta see it” is an important component of criticism, but there’s only so much I can tell you about Review without you having some basic experience with it. It’s Andy Daly (who you may know from Eastbound & Down or various podcasts ) playing Forrest MacNeil, a “life reviewer.” He hosts a show within a show, which sounds more complicated than it is.įorrest is the most interesting kind of madman in that he truly believes he has insight the world needs. FIrst, I’m gonna need you to watch him eat 15 pancakes. We’re gonna talk about Andy Daly’s extremely strange, extremely dark glance at humanity in a second. This week: the downward spiral of Andy Daly on Review. In What I Did With My Summer Vacation we explore shows you should catch up on during TV’s slowest season.
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