I watched an episode last night and it seemed good.

So my question to you is: is it worth it to continue to watch more episodes or should I stop now?

Keep watching.

Last Man Standing and Dr. Ken Reviewed: "The Road Less Driven" (#5.05) and "Dr. Wendi: Coming to LA!" (#1.04) (http://nickanddisneyreviewed.blogspot.com/2015/10/last-man-standing-and-dr-ken-reviewed.html)

If you think it's good, watch a few more. By then, you'll be hooked!

Its not as funny as Home Improvement, but it is most definitely worth the watch. The episode that was shown this past Friday night was really good. I loved the story line between Mike and his oldest daughter Kristyn. :) :) :)

God bless you always!!! :) :) :)

Holly

Its not as funny as Home Improvement, but it is most definitely worth the watch. The episode that was shown this past Friday night was really good. I loved the story line between Mike and his oldest daughter Kristyn. :) :) :)

God bless you always!!! :) :) :)

Holly
I like it.

Totally worth the watch.
If you can, watch from episode one.
It's a fun ride.

It has that classic sitcom feel you cannot really find these days. CBS' multicams are too explicit and the singlecams always felt too forced to be different and special to me...

I think this should be a good time to replace Tim with a new actor, since Tim should be returning to the movies permanently for the rest of his life.

With the world being the way that it is now, the more that I watch this show, the more that I am glad that it has been made and put out there for us to watch at all. Its one of the few shows that doesn't hesitate to tell it like it should be.

God bless you and everyone of the show always!!! :) :) :)

Holly

Tim Allen by Season 2 onward, seemed to want to do a 21st century version of All in the Family. However, what he didn't seem to truly grasp is that what made Archie Bunker work was that his ideas were portrayed as buffoonish and from a perspective of ignorance. It's a much different matter entirely when you portray an "Archie" as a common man of keen insight, who conveys his wisdom through clever one-liners. Therefore, it made it sound like what Mike Baxter was saying was in effect, "truth to power" and everybody who disagreed with him was more or less, in the wrong.

Another thing to take note, is that although Archie Bunker more or less, became a right-wing hero, the truth of the matter is that Carroll O'Connor was in essence, trying to make fun of those type of people. In other words, he was meant to be sort of a caricature.

I think Lear anticipated that the script every week, which would be heavily slanted towards Lear's views, would be influential. I think, though, he missed that Archie could only fall so far in the eyes of the audience because the basis of the story was that Archie was taking care of everybody, including Mike. When you look at Maude, the next step down the line for Lear, you see that he very carefully makes the conservative an older, white, professional guy who is nearly always in a suit - a target designed to get no sympathy from a mass audience.

I think one thing that really killed LMS at the end of the day (and not necessarily just because if at all it was getting "too conservative" per se for ABC's liking) was too much retooling. After the first season they replaced the oldest daughter with a new actress and the oldest daughter was then dating Kyle. They broke them up so the daughter could go back to a relationship with her son's biological dad. Then Kyle started dating the middle daughter, who then married him. Like I said, there was too much retooling and not enough character development.

I think Lear anticipated that the script every week, which would be heavily slanted towards Lear's views, would be influential. I think, though, he missed that Archie could only fall so far in the eyes of the audience because the basis of the story was that Archie was taking care of everybody, including Mike. When you look at Maude, the next step down the line for Lear, you see that he very carefully makes the conservative an older, white, professional guy who is nearly always in a suit - a target designed to get no sympathy from a mass audience.

Another thing to take not regarding the supposed similarities between AITF and LMS is that All in the Family was a satire of racial, religious, and economic bigotry, acted by a cast who fought against them. Also, in spite of it being so over the top, there was a lot of nuance to the show. On the other hand, Tim Allen the man himself, apparently truly believes in conservatism (or more specifically the "pull yourself by your boot straps" kind).

Last Man Standing: 7 high points of Tim Allen's canceled series (http://ew.com/tv/2017/05/17/last-man-standing-best-moments/)

Regardless of politics, I like the show.

Regardless of politics, I like the show.

Tim Allen tried to make a TV show in a format that is on it's way out (or more specifically, he tried to use the same old sitcom formula that worked in the '90s with some political edge mixed in), then fractured his would be audience by interjecting his personal politics (and in essence, pigeonholing your show for pissed off baby boomers) in the mix. It's not as if he was on the cutting edge of entertainment.

Also, that particular framework that I mentioned earlier, will only get you so far because what audiences think makes an enduring sitcom has changed in the last 20 years and there is only so many times you can go back to the political controversy well. Maybe it was OK for what it did, but the concept behind the show could only go so far.