This was a very bumpy and jarring start to the ninth and final series of 'Last Man Standing'.
It felt as though they had a plot prearranged and then decided to be topical and lump a lot of Covid 19/pandemic jokes at the start for no other reason than to be topical. The problem with doing so is that it dates your episode. I watched this in 2022 and the jokes felt very creaky/done better elsewhere.
It does settle down into being a nice episode after this though, with the standard gentle comedy that this show has mined for the previous eight series.
I do feel that it had perhaps run its course though by this point, and the lack of a normal sized studio audience is telling too.
It felt as though they had a plot prearranged and then decided to be topical and lump a lot of Covid 19/pandemic jokes at the start for no other reason than to be topical. The problem with doing so is that it dates your episode. I watched this in 2022 and the jokes felt very creaky/done better elsewhere.
It does settle down into being a nice episode after this though, with the standard gentle comedy that this show has mined for the previous eight series.
I do feel that it had perhaps run its course though by this point, and the lack of a normal sized studio audience is telling too.