I LOVE this show so much but I felt the season opener was a little underwhelming. :-( I have faith the cast will find their footing again soon.
5 Reviews
Not the best
joanmatthews-813595 January 2021
Good season premiere
jakerl-435044 January 2021
I enjoyed this season opener. It gave us a hopeful glimpse at a future without a pandemic. I hope it doesn't take a few years like the episode indicates, however. The family is doing well. Mike has two new grandkids. I look forward to the rest of this season
Still one off the best shows around
pwtaphoorn4 January 2021
Time Flies
studioAT10 October 2022
Warning: Spoilers
This was a very bumpy and jarring start to the ninth and final series of 'Last Man Standing'.
It felt as though they had a plot prearranged and then decided to be topical and lump a lot of Covid 19/pandemic jokes at the start for no other reason than to be topical. The problem with doing so is that it dates your episode. I watched this in 2022 and the jokes felt very creaky/done better elsewhere.
It does settle down into being a nice episode after this though, with the standard gentle comedy that this show has mined for the previous eight series.
I do feel that it had perhaps run its course though by this point, and the lack of a normal sized studio audience is telling too.
It felt as though they had a plot prearranged and then decided to be topical and lump a lot of Covid 19/pandemic jokes at the start for no other reason than to be topical. The problem with doing so is that it dates your episode. I watched this in 2022 and the jokes felt very creaky/done better elsewhere.
It does settle down into being a nice episode after this though, with the standard gentle comedy that this show has mined for the previous eight series.
I do feel that it had perhaps run its course though by this point, and the lack of a normal sized studio audience is telling too.
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