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Time up review11/18/2023 This is the show’s MO: Put the characters in a place where they can do horrifying things, then contrast them with everybody else, until even scummy folks seem a little better in comparison.īut what’s notable about “Time’s Up” is the way it takes an already threadbare comedic premise - dummies don’t understand that, for instance, looking at a woman’s breasts is harassment and not a “compliment” - and rolls it through the 12 previous seasons of Sunny. They and the staffers of the other bars on the list are made to go to sexual harassment training - it’s not clear by whom - and the bulk of the episode takes place in hotel conference rooms, as the characters struggle to prove that they’re not sexual harassers, as everybody else involved in the training becomes progressively more horrified by them. “Time’s Up for the Gang,” written by Megan Ganz, takes the past year of #MeToo and Time’s Up activism, meant to point out the horrors women face in day-to-day life, and throws it into a blender after the gang from Paddy’s Pub learns they have been placed on a “shitty bar” list, which is reminiscent of the instantly infamous “Shitty Media Men” list. It was a comedy informed by antihero dramas more than other “best friends who hang out at a bar” shows.Īnd rarely has that been more evident than in the series’ latest episode, the extremely funny, unexpectedly timely “Time’s Up for the Gang.” Sending the Sunny gang into sexual harassment training is an almost perfect comedic premise And eventually Frank ends up in a robe. The show debuted in 2005 at the tail end of a wave of comedies that reveled in raunchy “political incorrectness,” but what set it apart was how much it understood that the people hurt by its main characters’ actions often had a point. Some of that can be ascribed to how it never makes too many episodes in a given season (most seasons of the show have been just 10 episodes long), and some of it can be ascribed to how experienced everyone involved in the show is at performing this delicate balancing act.īut I think almost as much has to be ascribed to the way the world itself has changed around Sunny, and how all involved have proved uniquely well-suited to feeling out those changes, sometimes before they’re even evident. That the show has succeeded at this task for 13 seasons - and arguably gotten better at it over those 13 seasons - feels like a minor miracle. FXX’s venerable comedy of miscreants and the horrible things they do has to honor the fact that its characters are dirtbags, but it also has to pull back just enough to wink at the audience. The path It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia has to walk is an extremely narrow one. ![]() The episode of the week for September 23 through 29 is “Time’s Up for the Gang” the fourth episode of the 13th season of FXX’s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. ![]() Every week, we pick a new episode of the week.
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