Kevin Can F**k Himself (TV Series) We're Selling Washing Machines (2021) User Reviews

A different kind of Dark Comedy

[robnero · 9/10 · 7 July 2021]

A very different way to tell a story! It's a drama with sit-com inserts versions, that lighten.

A young woman that desires much more out of her life, struggles to escape her obnoxious husband and his bro-club buddies.

Everyone has a part to play. The neighbor, old boyfriend... it's very creative and funny in the absurdity of the situations she gets herself into trying to get out. (Kinda Lucy-esque) It is divided by us seeing her life through a sitcom lense vs. The truth of her actual life.

Imagine shows like I Love Lucy, King of Queens or Married With Children with an "real" actual version being told with it.

This ain't Married with Kids

[safenoe · 8/10 · 8 May 2023]

I only learned about Kevin Can F Himself only last week, and it's a shame it hasn't got the publicity it deserves. I think that's one of the downsides of Peak TV, there's so much Peak TV and not enough to watch the quality ones of which there are many. No wonder most streaming series are short run series, like the British model.

Anyway, Kevin Can F Himself is incredibly subversive and then some. It plays on and pokes at the tropes in sitcoms (e.g. Simpsons, Family Guy, All in the Family, Everybody Loves Raymond, and of course Kevin Can Wait) and turns it on its head to give a more realistic and darker side. Annie Murphy is superb as Allison McRoberts, as is Raymond Lee as Sam Park.

In this episode there's a Breaking Bad feel to it with illegal substances.

Also, Eric Petersen's portrayal has a Rodney Dangerfield feel to it. I sometimes wonder what the atmosphere was like on set, especially being filmed during the pandemic.

Kevin Can F Himself ain't for everyone but then again not everyone was a fan of Kevin Can Wait.

Geico Commercial of AMC

[WarrenPiecz · 4/10 · 28 June 2021]

Geico commercials are considered the worst advertising dreck ever created. There is no originality, no creativity, and absolutely no thought put into any of their commercials; take two opposite things, like a cow and a coal mine, put them together and that's supposed to be creative. A 6th grader could write them, and maybe they did.

Now on to "K. C. F. H." I've watched all three. I get it; I mean, it's not rocket surgery. Whilst the "off-set" story is somewhat interesting, my main criticism is with the "Sit-Com" segments. Mainly, it's just inexcusably lazy writing. Yes, unfunny, formulaic, one-dimensional, by-the-numbers gruel truly does write itself, believe it or not.

I can write the "Sit-Com" segments. YOU can write the sit-com segments. Even Geico advertising executives can write the sit-com segments, and that's terrifying. It's fill-in-the-blanks. Now, if over time, they slowly phased out the "sit-com" segments (the premise is established, no need to keep bludgeoning the audience with a bad idea, like the "Cavemen"), then it might work, as the "off-set" story does have the potential to stand on its' own. However, tonight's "sit-com" seemed to go on longer than the first two. Or maybe it just felt that way.

If I were to guess, the writers spend 5% of the time mindlessly filling in the "sit-com" blanks (or they hand it off to one, like, "intern") and 95% of the time on the "off-set" material. May I suggest having the running time of the two segments reflect that.