Though "The Oblongs" is supposed to be "edgy," a word that has come to mean tasteless more often than not, the half-hour's social satire is buried under a pile of toxic jokes and an obsession with all things disgusting and vile.
"The Oblongs" wants to offer salient social commentary on the haves and the have nots, but it's so busy stereotyping the two groups, it says nothing at all.
When you strip away the too-deliberate attempts to be politically incorrect, there's not much left here but figurative (and literal) dwarf-tossing and lame rich folk-poor folk jokes. Ugh.
Everything here reeks of "Simpsons" mimicry, even the basic rhythm with which the jokes unfold. To stand out and break out, a show like this needs to offer a genuinely original voice.
