A critic takes aim at intense real-life experiences in lieu of food or cinema. Fair game includes divorce, anonymous sex and all manner of criminal activity.
This all might be particularly delicious territory for us pathetic creatures known as critics, but, being as objective as one can be in a review, I happen to think Review is one of Comedy Central's most effortless and truly funny new shows in a while.
There's an underlying social commentary in the fundamental premise, but it's one that never gets even remotely explained.... There's a nagging sense that Review represents a squandered opportunity.
Review does hover on the edge of shamelessness at all times, as if creating a more buttoned-down, scripted equivalent of a humiliation-based reality series: Think Jackass in pleats. But there's more going on here than kamikaze foolishness.
