![]() ![]() She is really in love with her husband, Jack, and a devoted mother too. Duncan is either doing too much or too little. She is always worried he’s going to screw up or not try and so she is constantly battling with her son. Annie is very afraid for Duncan’s future. ![]() If that’s the gist, though, I’d at least like to be led by an actual bully.What Amy says: “Annie is Duncan’s mother, she is in parking enforcement and is the boss of the family. (Do cafeterias even serve salisbury steak anymore or is that just a long-ago memory of a middle-aged writing staff?) There’s something particularly ’90s about this sitcom that might be intended to feel nostalgic, but really comes off as retrograde. I can’t help but imagine how my ambivalence about this show would shift if, for once, a cartoon about kids actually included kids’ voices.ĭuncanville is another family-friendly comedy that seems about as connected to today’s youth as its Groupon jokes seem relevant to 2020. ![]() Lindhome’s performance, on the other hand, seems forced, as Kimberly’s exasperated intonations sound too modern-day Valley Girl. (I’d also like to know why its Asian-heritage characters are literally yellow? Yikes.)Ĭast standouts include Poehler in dual and dichotomous roles, Sodaro as buoyant Bex and Cherry, who plays Wolf with desert-dry wit. The design is fairly pedestrian, looking like a cousin of Family Guy, and the talents of the voice actors vary. Each episode feels like a jumbled attic full of too many plots and ideas and settings and hyper-specific pop culture references - you can barely keep up with the emotional arcs when you’re constantly jumping from scene to scene. ![]() The show’s aesthetics don’t naturally invite your attention. (She’s cute AND she cares!) The kids crash cars, feud with stay-at-home dads and generally scheme for attention. Duncan also has a sometimes-crush on Manic Pixie Dream Activist Mia, voiced by Rashida Jones. (Not shown onscreen, however.) Yangzi is a future tech bro, and Wolf is a classic monotone dirtbag. Bex, who’s drawn to look just like Sodaro, including the comedienne’s signature wild ponytail, is a delightful chaos agent who’s out-and-proud about her love of nakedness. I once saw Mike Scully confess on a panel that Simpsons writers have jokingly proposed storylines in which Bart and Lisa fall in love with each other, so I’m not at all surprised to see a couple of weirdo incest jokes in these two episodes.ĭuncan’s flanked by his fellow outsider buddies Bex (Betsy Sodaro), Yangzi (Yassir Lester) and Wolf (Zach Cherry). Who’s the audience for this show, exactly?) His little sisters are far more engrossing: Brutal middle schooler Kimberly (Riki Lindhome) challenges him and doofy-cute 6-year-old Jing (Joy Osmanski) wants to marry him. (Complete with swiftly-expiring pop culture references, like a fantasy sequence featuring Alex Honnold of Free Solo or a wink-wink joke about character actor Kyle Bornheimer. The show supposes his “vast imagination” is his selling point, but it’s merely the show’s opportunity to mimic the choppy cutaway style of Family Guy. Annie, unfortunately, is a flawless nagwife, constantly haranguing her husband and children to get in line.Īmy Poehler Animated Comedy 'Duncanville' Nabs Fox Series Order (Exclusive)ĭuncan (also voiced by Poehler) is their gawkward carrot-top son, another adolescent slacker protagonist who’s the least interesting thing onscreen. ( Simpsons legend Mike Scully later left his legacy on Parks and Recreation, where he helped give Pawnee its deranged, Springfield-esque cultural life.) Gulf War veteran and plumber Jack ( Ty Burrell, playing another desperate-to-be-liked dad) sees himself as the “fun” parent compared to anxiety-prone squawker Annie (Amy Poehler). I show no mercy and must kill to survive.” This girl shouldn’t be a side dish, but the whole damn meal.ĭuncanville, like a glut of other Fox animated comedies, zeroes in on a stereotypical white nuclear TV family that includes a bumbling patriarch, a harridan matriarch, two warring kids and an adorable baby. There’s no name I haven’t been called, no taunt I haven’t endured, no body part that hasn’t been shamed. Why should we care about Duncan, a kid so intent on floating through life that his father has to beg to teach him to drive, when we could instead follow his ferocious, purple-hair tween sister? While Duncan whines about how Kimberly bested him at his own MMORPG because she decided to slaughter a peaceful race of elves instead of befriending them, the girl heaves with righteous anger: “You stay out of my bullying or I swear I will doxx you, swat you, and catfish you so hard you’ll believe you’re in love.” As she reminds him earlier in the episode, “I’m something you’ll never be. ![]()
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