I give this 2 stars solely for Rosie's performance. She's always great. However, I cannot enjoy this show. I am in the right age, demographic, from a similar upbringing, urban environment with a poor, messed up family, I'm not a prude, I even look a bit like the female lead (minus the 50lbs of makeup she wears to go work out). However, I can't watch this show without feeling incredibly annoyed and repulsed. Not by language, sex, or any of the other "bad" things that typically get uptight people to turn off a program like this. The characters are simply terrible people. They are rude, compulsive liars and cheaters who are intrusive and self-absorbed for no reason other than to cause shock for the tv show. I would not want to be stuck pumping gas at the same station as any of these people. There isn't any comedy in the show other than laughing at what a mess and how awful these people are - similar to watching MTV reality stars embarrass themselves on TV - which results in more eye rolls, cringing, and me exclaiming out loud to the tv, "What the f is wrong with you?!" I thought I was perhaps too rough on the first season and should give season 2 a chance. I was cringing and rolling my eyes 5 min into season 2. Reminds me of how I felt watching Girls. Yet another show about how terrible and messed up young women are, how none have any redeemable qualities or compassion for anyone but themselves. No life lessons. No moral to the story. Little to no entertainment in any of the 30 min episodes. Just more overly sexual young women wearing too much makeup and bad clothes running around causing chaos and misery everywhere they go. Definitely a big part of being a young dumb-dumb, though one I haven't seen many people over the age of 25 partake in, especially not parents.
With representations of young women like this, it's no wonder the world hates them. Hollywood clearly has a thing for green lighting programs that make the world hate women more.
In a show like Shameless, which is the only similar one that comes to mind I enjoy, the terrible, messed up kids grow up and become better people, they actually come off as though they care about people other than themselves. The stories grow and change. Characters have redeemable qualities. SMILF is merely a narcissistic exercise in vulgarity, and there is nothing in the story that compels me to watch another episode.
With representations of young women like this, it's no wonder the world hates them. Hollywood clearly has a thing for green lighting programs that make the world hate women more.
In a show like Shameless, which is the only similar one that comes to mind I enjoy, the terrible, messed up kids grow up and become better people, they actually come off as though they care about people other than themselves. The stories grow and change. Characters have redeemable qualities. SMILF is merely a narcissistic exercise in vulgarity, and there is nothing in the story that compels me to watch another episode.