A contractor’s wife is back on the job, and he now has to take care of the kids. His life completely changes as he has to be a full on dad looking after his kids, and not just a playful dad to his three kids a while ago, which makes his realise that parenting is extremely difficult.
Man with a Plan just makes you wish he'd take his sincere befuddlement elsewhere, someplace that mattered. Simply put, Matt LeBlanc is too good to be this irrelevant.
As the series settles into itself hopefully the writing will switch gears... There's plenty of comedy to be mined... Until it does, it's hard to say why this is worth your time.
There are opportunities here for something more interesting than what develops, which is laced with needlessly crass jokes and (no real humor), but the show clearly has no plans to explore that.
LeBlanc does what he can with the role, but the writing is so far below the bar set by Friends, it's almost unfair of Man With a Plan to beg a comparison.
Seeing LeBlanc in Man With a Plan hurts more than when he tried to take Joey out on his own. At least that spinoff focused on a likable guy who knew he was a dumb-dumb.
