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When a show advertises itself as 'Family Guy for women' that statement carries an
equal amount of weight and baggage.
What exactly does 'Family Guy but for women' look like?
Heck, I wasn't even aware Family Guy was only for men.
I mean sure the name has 'Guy' in it, but the show focuses fairly equally on the
rest of the cast.
Not JUST Peter.
The baggage that comes from such a comparison is that if you fail, you look all the more
ridiculous.
Imagine if someone filmed a movie and called it Game of Thrones meets Pokemon.
If it works, whoa awesome.
If it doesn't, then you get laughed at.
So where does Mother Up stand?
What IS Mother Up?
According to Wikipedia, "The show chronicles the misguided attempts at parenthood of a
disgraced music executive who transitions from the big city to suburbia.
After she resigns from her job and her husband leaves her, Rudi Wilson becomes a single mother
raising her two children, Apple and Dick, and must learn mothering duties."
Now that doesn't sound too awful a plot.
It's rife with storytelling and comedy potential.
I've only watched the first episode, but I was rather surprised.
Surprised because I fully expected to be cringing and rolling my eyes throughout the entire
episode.
Instead, after getting past an incredibly rough opening, I warmed up to it a little.
Initially my thoughts were that the main character is way to unlikable to root for.
She's an awful mother, she's very crude, and Eva Longoria's voice kills me.
But slowly the pieces came together and it somehow works, for what the series is trying
to be.
Whether this is like Family Guy and none of the progress continues into subsequent episodes
is beyond me.
As for the comparisons to Family Guy, besides just being an adult comedy I don't really
see it.
The comedy in the pilot isn't as wacky as in Family Guy, the characters are less cartoon-y
(if that makes sense) and there are certainly no cutaways.
It's just your standard adult comedy.
That for some reason looks more like Archie.
The dynamic between the mother and her kids (Dick and Apple) is what probably sold me,
especially after she tries to calm Apple down about swimming by telling her a more terrifying
pool story to…expected results.
Rudy doesn't know how to be a mother and that seems like where most of the humor will
come from.
That and her trying to climb the suburban mother ladder.
It's not laugh out loud funny like you might get out of the better Family Guy episodes,
but it may get you to crack a smile or chuckle softly.
I don't know if the show gets worse or becomes an underrated gem cancelled long before its
time.
I don't have plans to review this weekly, like I may have done in the past, but if there's
enough interest I wouldn't say no to watching the remaining episodes and doing a final review
on this show.
If you're interested in watching this, you can probably find it on any number of websites
that host cartoons.
It may even still be up on Hulu.
So yeah, I'd at least recommend checking out the pilot.
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