I've reviewed each individual run of "Young Rock" and you can find those lodged against the final episode of each season, but now that the show has been cancelled I thought I'd put something here.
Dwayne Johnson (Dwayne Johnson) is running for President and has agreed to a series of interviews with Randall Park (Randall Park) to explain his philosophies on things. The interviews involve stories recounted from various points in his younger life. Aged 10, Dewey (Adrian Groulx) idolises his father, Rocky Johnson (Joseph Lee Anderson) but often has to stay with his mother Ata (Stacey Leilua), daughter of Hawaii based Wrestling promotor Lia (Ana Tuisila), widow of the "High Chief" Peter Maivia. Aged 15, Dwayne (Bradley Constant) is acutely aware of his family's lowly station, as his father struggles for matches and they make ends meet however they can. Finally, as a college Student Dwayne (Uli Latukefu) tries desperately to get minutes for the Miami Hurricanes in the hope of gaining an NFL career that can end his family's financial worries once and for all.
I won't argue with you, if you want to accuse "Young Rock" of being a docile bit of network comedy. It very much is that, lessons are learned, people are generally nice and friendly and it's all very earnest. There's no biting political satire or edgy black comedy. But as an example of a network sitcom, I thought it was reasonably successful. I generally laughed a few times in each episode and the rest of the time was amused or entertained enough by the story of it to keep going.
What I particularly liked about the second season was the movement that the older Dwayne makes into professional wrestling. There are even more wrestlers appearing in this season and I was watching in the early attitude era, so they are all familiar to me. A nice highlight was seeing Colt Cabana playing The Brooklyn Brawler, Steve Lombardi - who walked Dwayne through his first match. As with Colt Cobana, a current wrestler gets to play a role in the third run too, as Becky Lynch gets a couple of opportunities to play Cindi Lauper, a role she pulls off well and I wonder if she might follow Sasha Banks into more might profile acting roles in the future. The episode dedicated to dissing Shawn Michaels is one of the more interesting ones of this run too.
I'm not massively disappointed that the show has ended at this stage it has. The WWE run is reaching its climax, his youngest version has probably aged out of the stories and, though a couple of future storylines are teased, I can't imagine that his filming experiences have been anything like as noteworthy as his WWE one.
Again, nice and occasionally funny sitcom.
Dwayne Johnson (Dwayne Johnson) is running for President and has agreed to a series of interviews with Randall Park (Randall Park) to explain his philosophies on things. The interviews involve stories recounted from various points in his younger life. Aged 10, Dewey (Adrian Groulx) idolises his father, Rocky Johnson (Joseph Lee Anderson) but often has to stay with his mother Ata (Stacey Leilua), daughter of Hawaii based Wrestling promotor Lia (Ana Tuisila), widow of the "High Chief" Peter Maivia. Aged 15, Dwayne (Bradley Constant) is acutely aware of his family's lowly station, as his father struggles for matches and they make ends meet however they can. Finally, as a college Student Dwayne (Uli Latukefu) tries desperately to get minutes for the Miami Hurricanes in the hope of gaining an NFL career that can end his family's financial worries once and for all.
I won't argue with you, if you want to accuse "Young Rock" of being a docile bit of network comedy. It very much is that, lessons are learned, people are generally nice and friendly and it's all very earnest. There's no biting political satire or edgy black comedy. But as an example of a network sitcom, I thought it was reasonably successful. I generally laughed a few times in each episode and the rest of the time was amused or entertained enough by the story of it to keep going.
What I particularly liked about the second season was the movement that the older Dwayne makes into professional wrestling. There are even more wrestlers appearing in this season and I was watching in the early attitude era, so they are all familiar to me. A nice highlight was seeing Colt Cabana playing The Brooklyn Brawler, Steve Lombardi - who walked Dwayne through his first match. As with Colt Cobana, a current wrestler gets to play a role in the third run too, as Becky Lynch gets a couple of opportunities to play Cindi Lauper, a role she pulls off well and I wonder if she might follow Sasha Banks into more might profile acting roles in the future. The episode dedicated to dissing Shawn Michaels is one of the more interesting ones of this run too.
I'm not massively disappointed that the show has ended at this stage it has. The WWE run is reaching its climax, his youngest version has probably aged out of the stories and, though a couple of future storylines are teased, I can't imagine that his filming experiences have been anything like as noteworthy as his WWE one.
Again, nice and occasionally funny sitcom.