FX's The Comedians: "It wants to be edgy, but it just has nothing much to say"

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http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/t...tionalize.html

The Billy Crystal-Josh Gad vehicle is the "celebrities-fictionalize-their-own-lives genre at its clunkiest," says Joe Reid. "The world of The Comedians never feels all that outrageous," he says.. "The sketches that Crystal and Gad perform in are all solid B-minus to C-plus. Their stop-and-start friendship is utterly unremarkable. Nobody seems willing to go anywhere remotely risky. In the first episode, Steven Weber shows up as the program's director who has recently transitioned (in some vaguely defined way) to a transgender woman. I was so ready for something offensive to transpire that I nearly grabbed the arms of my chair." PLUS: There are glimmers of hope that this could eventually be a good show, it is sadly ill-conceived, and The Comedians comes across as the most-cutting showbiz satire of 1991.

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