ABC Mid-Season Pilot Review: Bless This Mess - Premieres April 16 - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

TJ · 04-16-2019, 01:06 PM

Bless This Mess - Tuesdays at 9:30PM ET/PT on ABC
Premieres Tuesday, April 16, 2019 at 9:30PM ET/PT

Bless This Mess follows newlyweds Rio and Mike as they make the decision to move from big city New York to rural Nebraska. After dropping everything (including their jobs and overbearing mother-in-law) to make the move from skyscrapers to farmhouses, they soon realize that the simpler life isn't as easy as they planned. Rio and Mike must now learn how to weather the storm as they are faced with unexpected challenges in their new life as farmers.

Read our review here:
http://blog.sitcomsonline.com/2019/0...less-this.html

TMC · 04-17-2019, 03:13 AM

ABC's Bless This Mess features likable stars in a cliche-heavy pilot

The comedy about a New York hipster couple, played by Lake Bell and Dax Shepard, who move into a Nebraska farmhouse has been done before. (Bell and New Girl's Liz Meriwether originally created Bless This Mess for Fox.) "You'll have to let me know if any part of that scenario sounds fresh or revelatory to you, because the first 22 minutes of Bless This Mess rely too heavily on, 'Man, I can't believe we're still doing that joke in 2019' tropes and hackneyed beats," says Daniel Fienberg. "Guess what? It turns out that the yuppies have every bit as much to learn from the bumpkins as vice versa, which would seem like it was subverting the genre, except that that's exactly what the conventions of the genre have always been. Nothing in how Bless This Mess initially approaches Nebraska suggests any regionally specific or time-period-specific authenticity."

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04-16-2019, 01:06 PM	#1
TJ Site Owner Administrator Forum Star Join Date: Feb 03, 2000 Location: Marietta, GA Posts: 10,660	ABC Mid-Season Pilot Review: Bless This Mess - Premieres April 16 Bless This Mess - Tuesdays at 9:30PM ET/PT on ABC Premieres Tuesday, April 16, 2019 at 9:30PM ET/PT Bless This Mess follows newlyweds Rio and Mike as they make the decision to move from big city New York to rural Nebraska. After dropping everything (including their jobs and overbearing mother-in-law) to make the move from skyscrapers to farmhouses, they soon realize that the simpler life isn't as easy as they planned. Rio and Mike must now learn how to weather the storm as they are faced with unexpected challenges in their new life as farmers. Read our review here: http://blog.sitcomsonline.com/2019/0...less-this.html

04-17-2019, 03:13 AM	#2
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 125,090	ABC's Bless This Mess features likable stars in a cliche-heavy pilot The comedy about a New York hipster couple, played by Lake Bell and Dax Shepard, who move into a Nebraska farmhouse has been done before. (Bell and New Girl's Liz Meriwether originally created Bless This Mess for Fox.) "You'll have to let me know if any part of that scenario sounds fresh or revelatory to you, because the first 22 minutes of Bless This Mess rely too heavily on, 'Man, I can't believe we're still doing that joke in 2019' tropes and hackneyed beats," says Daniel Fienberg. "Guess what? It turns out that the yuppies have every bit as much to learn from the bumpkins as vice versa, which would seem like it was subverting the genre, except that that's exactly what the conventions of the genre have always been. Nothing in how Bless This Mess initially approaches Nebraska suggests any regionally specific or time-period-specific authenticity." ALSO: Bless This Mess is too polished to make its gentrification comedy work It's hard to reinvent the "fish out of water" story in 2019 How Lake Bell recruited Pam Grier for Bless This Mess