Brockmire

Funny, sometimes raunchy. All the characters are pleasantly dysfunctional. Captures the essence of small-town Rust Belt Pennsylvania in an amusingly accurate portrait. I'm enjoying this show immensely. :)

How much that is on TV today surprises you? I love Modern Family, but do you ever think it isn't going to work out for Phil in the end? Brockmire surprises me constantly, and is appointment TV for that reason! How about a Brockmire movie?😁

Brockmire is ridiculously funny, recklessly irreverent, and pulls comedy out of pathos, bad behavior, and worse decisions. There's also an element of redemption that events seem to forever tease just out of reach. I have not seen Azaria in his previous work, but he's certainly much more than just 'a voice' in this. Make no mistake, this is HIS show. Peet and Williams get opportunities to shine and even steal the occasional scene, but Azaria holds it all together with consistent skill, even avoiding the bear trap of overdoing the central gag of the series, which is the announcer's voice that was the genesis of the whole shebang. As a baseball fan, I thought this might be inaccessible to sports neophytes, but I was wrong. My baseball-free adult son cackled through the first five episodes next to me on a road trip. Azaria may have had to go through a cable channel I'd never heard of to get this made, but my guess is that he'll have his pick next time out.