Reviews

I really did want this to be a good show. I really wanted some metal based hilarity coming thick and fast for half an hour slots but it just wasn't to be.

I have been a metal fan for a good while now, more so a fan of the more extreme sub-genres i.e. Death and Black metal. I can safely say that I went in to watching this show with high hopes. I love extreme metal and I love comedy and I am more than willing to mix the two as I enjoy a good laugh about the things that mean a lot to me. So don't take this review as me slagging this off because I was upset and offended that they had dared to poke fun at my favourite genre of music.

Metalocalypse is just not a good show. It's crude, it's dumb but it's just not funny.

Perhaps I was hoping for a Spinal Tap-esquire spoof which would offer similar ridiculous but still plausible and laughable representations but instead I got predictable, dull and formulaic jokes that were pretty easy to digest but pretty boring to behold. This series runs out of steam very quickly as you realise that the only metal "jokes" are just countless metal stereotypes either being flipped on their head or shoved down your throat. Sure it would be silly to have a death metal band to shout out "RELEASE THE KITTIES" whilst live on stage but its not really anything new. If you ever have had a conversation about metal with anyone who knows about it you have probably come up which much funnier metal based anecdotes than that. And random attempts to incorporate actual band names into scenes just to get are laugh are just lame.

And this I feel is what the underlining problem with the whole show is. It's not doing anything that a metal fan couldn't think of by themselves. And I personally feel that it's only popular because its the only comedy based on this premise out there right now, I mean lets face it its not hard to be best metal based comedy show when you are the only one. This is a show that is dull at it's best and awful at it's worst.

For a show that centres itself around death metal, a genre I find to have a great sense of humour about itself and the world in general I just don't understand how and why this show went so wrong. It's just uninspired shite to be honest.

This show is atrocious. From the choppy script writing to the predictable and tedious plot lines. Not one redeeming feature lay present with this horrid sitcom. It is everything that has been wrong with American comedy for the last 10 - 15 years and by that I mean this sitcom is the same as most of the others. The jokes are obvious, immature and annoying because you know the punchlines before the jokes are said and you know the outcome before the situation begins.

The horrid tedium that normally ends up making these shows mediocre at worst and average at best is present on The Big Bang Theory but for some reason with this show it makes it offensively bad instead of averagely mediocre. The show is childish and unoriginal on almost every level and for some reason other comments are saying this is smart and well written. Well written? ARE YOU JOKING?

The "hilarious" situations the characters find themselves in are always surrounding the one idea that these guys are geeks and although yes it can be done well to have a show about socially awkward people(see Peep Show) the idea alone of them being geeks is not enough to make a show funny.

WE GET IT THEY ARE GEEKS WHO AREN'T GOOD WITH LADIES!!! But do you have any other jokes? Any at all? No of course not, just more "HA hes so nerdy scenes" Everything about the sitcom elements of The Big Bang Theory has been done a million times before and a million times better. Something this bland wouldn't even feel original if it was shown twenty years ago. This canned laughter bullsh*t is old and its done so please just let it die.

Also I am confused to why some people think this show is made better by the fact they have science researchers on board the production staff. So what the silly experiments the characters get into could actually be done? Right well that doesn't make what is supposedly a sitcom funny. If I wanted stupid but real science I would watch Brainiac NOT A F*CKING SITCOM ITS SIMPLE!

Look how ever much I rate this down and rant angrily about how terrible show you have probably made your mind up about the show but here is how I see it.

If you like your comedy predictable, dull and with a million quotable and "Hilarious" catchphrases then get this as soon as possible because you will certainly love this.

IF HOWEVER YOU ARE NOT A COMPLETE AND UTTER DRIBBLING INVALID THEN STAY WELL AWAY. Try an original American sitcom like Arrested Development or a brilliantly observant British comedy like Peep Show.