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Review with Forrest MacNeil - Season 3 |OT| These pancakes couldn't kill me.

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ian roberts as the rival inmate was awesome. Forrest's dad's monologue was heartbreaking. Clovers' death even more so.
Not a perfect episode though tbh, mainly because the pillowfight review was so predictable--still worth it for forrest being tased.

interview with Megan Stevenson (AJ) is decent, not having any idea what tomorrow has in store I like the idea of season 3 opening with that idea she and Daly say was floated for season 1 and 2 of AJ reviewing.
 
Interesting interview. I like the bit about AJ's ambitions as star of the show. I actually thought she was the one picking the reviews.
 
Great season. Five stars.


- Onion A|V Club review
- Sepinwall Interview with Andy Daly: How Comedy Central's 'Review' became the most wonderfully dark show on TV
Did you ever have pause about whether this season was perhaps too dark, given all of the death and destruction? Or was this the only direction the story could go after last year?

Andy Daly: I don't recall any pause about too much darkness! Either from us or the network who were, I must mention, phenomenally supportive of everything we wanted to do this season. Honestly, I only remember people laughing at dark suggestions. I don’t know what’s wrong with us but I think our creative team was totally united in the belief that it’s hilarious to watch bad things happen to this dope. The worse the better! Jeff Blitz and I - he runs the show with me - did occasionally wonder if Forrest was too unsympathetic or bordering on psychopathic or if the show was too sad in places, but we were always able to address those concerns, to our own satisfaction anyway. I can tell you that we did occasionally worry that we were going too far too soon with the "Cult, Perfect Body" episode. It's so insane and so catastrophic and it's only four episodes into the season! But I love that all that death and destruction and insanity represents a crescendo in Forrest's failure to start a new life, one that leads naturally into the renewed pursuit of Suzanne. I think it works well and is one of our funnest episodes.

In the finale, Forrest comes to blame Grant for all his troubles, while Suzanne points out that he has only himself to blame for his devotion to the show. We saw in the murder episode and at times in this one that Grant certainly doesn't mind pushing Forrest to do awful things; how much should we blame him for what's become of our hero?

Andy Daly: I think a fun thing about the season finale is that we, the audience, are left with some questions. Forrest seems like he might be on the right trail before the fear and the lack of sleep and his total unwillingness to accept the blame that Suzanne lays at his feet cause him to lose the thread and hatch his dimwitted Gretchen theory. He posed some pretty good questions along the way though. Are the review requests really randomly generated? Does Grant like putting Forrest in jeopardy? Grant is clearly manipulative and malevolent, but how far does that go? Those may be things to keep playing with in the future. But for now, I think it's safe to say that Suzanne is right. Forrest signed on to an insane show and keeps putting it ahead of everything else. Regardless of whatever Grant is doing, to paraphrase from our season 1 Get Rich Quick segment, Forrest did this to himself.
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I've only seen 2 episodes of the first season so far but wow..Ab So Lutely knock it out of the park again.

Nathan For You was already one of my favorite running tv shows at the moment but I can see this quickly becoming one as well.
 
Forrest has a real knack for getting sooooo close to acknowledging the truth and then gliding right on by. He just can't admit that he's the central problem in all these disasters.

Him diving down the rabbit hole was really fun to watch tonight. That was a helluva season.

metsallica said:
What a fantastic season of TV. I need a bluray... and a third season.
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They haven't even done DVDs for the first season, don't hold out hope for Blu-rays.
 
The show is so great, and this season was bleak as hell. It's amazing how the weight of the reviews both holds and fades at the same time. Like Forrest
gets shot, or lost at sea
, and a 15minute show segment actually represents several months of his life. They communicate that heft in really funny ways.
 
Dan said:
They haven't even done DVDs for the first season, don't hold out hope for Blu-rays.
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I know! If this is the end maybe they'll put out something on physical media. I'll take what I can get; beggars can't be choosers. If what I can get is nothing, I will just quietly sulk and post in random GAF threads about how I wish it would release. So... the usual.
 
- Fienberg @ THR: Critic's Notebook: 'Review' is the Best Show You're Not Watching
Grant protested, "People are constantly asking you to review dangerous things, because they already know what the easy stuff is like. They can do that themselves."

That sounds plausible. Do we believe it? Does that put the viewer at the heart of the real conspiracy? When we watch a Survivor or Big Brother, how much are we putting real people, people who we come to view as fictional characters, into unpleasant circumstances as a placebo for experiencing those things ourselves?
Is there a line between staging moments for televisual advantage and staging moments to Forrest's disadvantage? And why the heck would Grant ever have wanted that last confrontation to take place on a bridge over roaring rapids?

For the second straight season, we were left with Forrest's preternaturally chipper co-host A.J. Gibbs (the magnificent Megan Stevenson) alone on-camera and guessing at Forrest's rating in lieu of her missing co-host and producer. But if Grant's not there, who's producing the show? And what is A.J.'s agenda here? How does she remain so giddy in the midst of Forrest's descent? Why was she so excited about the veto added to the show this season? Why was she so eager to assist Forrest in reviewing Getting Kicked in the Balls? I simultaneously don't want to destroy the mystique of A.J. Gibbs and yet need to learn more about her.

We're still a couple months from me needing to decide where Review will fit into my end-of-the-year top 10, but it will surely be high. It also remains to be seen if a fanatical, but tiny, fan base is enough to earn the show a third season. Just as I didn't know where Review could go after its last finale, I don't know how this one can be topped, but Daly and Blitz and company have proven that things can always get worse for Forrest MacNeil and better for viewers.
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- Warming Glow: Comedy Central’s ‘Review’ Might Be The Darkest Show On TV (And The Funniest, Too)
A big part of the secret here — the misdirection in the magic trick, if we want to keep going with that analogy — is Daly himself. As anyone who has listened to his podcast or his appearances on Comedy Bang Bang can attest, he takes no small amount of joy out of creating perfectly nice characters and then taking a hard left turn into chaos. Couple that with the glasses and Forrest’s very beige wardrobe and Daly being beyond pleasant in interviews and non-character appearances, and it works like a sneak attack. “He… seems… so… nice. Why… is… he…?” It almost short circuits your brain a little, this sweet-seeming guy causing all this destruction.
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I always had a theory that there was no TV show and that Forrest was just a normal guy going through some kind of nervous breakdown. I guess the season finale ruins that theory.
 
I hope the series doesn't end on that note. I need closure!! Or Grant and Forrest are going down the river reconciling and we give being hunted a rating of six stars as stated by AJ. That works too.

But seriously, I really hope this is renewed.
 
Wow. Just wow.

The "Conspiracy?" "Bridge." reference pointed out in the AV Club review is some clever setup.

need Poehler and Walsh cameos next season (please let there be a next season) to complete UCB founder bingo
 
Griegite said:
I said the same thing to myself when I saw that Nathan For You was renewed and not Review. Nothing against Nathan For You, just a timing concern.
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Yeah. The timing is concerning as I feel like they share a certain sensibility, but Review goes deep. I wonder how many people get put off because the show actually heavily relies on continuity, but the format would make it seem that you can jump in at any point.
 
- THR: Andy Daly's 'Review' to End With Abbreviated Final Season on Comedy Central.
The Viacom-owned cable network is poised to pick up Andy Daly vehicle Review for a limited third season, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

Sources say the decision to wrap the comedy series in which Daly stars as Forrest MacNeil, a professional critic who reviews real-life experiences was a joint one between the actor-creator-producer and the network. The move will allow Daly — and his Forrest — to properly provide closure for the series. The decision comes as Daly is currently fielding comedy pilot offers from the broadcast networks.
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Glad we get an ending at least, should be a crazy few episodes. They did a hell of a lot with S2, so I am sure they will make the most of their time.

I wonder what the final review will be?
 
A bit conflicted on the news, but at least this would mean that the show gets a proper ending. I honestly think Review will go down as a cult classic, people will be discovering it in years to come and proclaiming it as one of the greats. It's a masterpiece IMO.
 
Well, at least we're getting more. I hope Daly gets the amount of time he wants.
 
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