The Great Indoors 

An adventure reporter must adapt to the times when he becomes the boss to a group of millennials in the digital department of the magazine.

Creator:

Mike Gibbons

Stars:

Joel McHale, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Chris Williams

1 win & 1 nomination.

Cast

Series cast summary:
Joel McHale	...	Jack 22 episodes, 2016-2017
Christopher Mintz-Plasse	...	Clark 22 episodes, 2016-2017
Chris Williams	...	Eddie 22 episodes, 2016-2017
Susannah Fielding	...	Brooke 22 episodes, 2016-2017
Christine Ko	...	Emma 22 episodes, 2016-2017
Shaun J. Brown	...	Mason 22 episodes, 2016-2017
Deborah Baker Jr.	...	Esther 22 episodes, 2016-2017
Stephen Fry	...	Roland 13 episodes, 2016-2017

Storyline

An adventure reporter must adapt to the times when he becomes the boss to a group of millennials in the digital department of the magazine.

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Plot Keywords:

reporter | 

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Genres:

Comedy

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Did You Know?

Trivia

Caught up in a minor cancellation sweep by CBS, which included "2 Broke Girls" after 6 seasons, and "The Odd Couple" after 3 seasons.

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Connections

Referenced in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Jessica Biel/Ricky Martin/Robert Irwin/Rag 'n' Bone Man (2017)

User Reviews

Goes for the easy laugh every time

There are certain comedic concepts that lazy joke writers love. These involve things like mothers-in-law warring with daughters-in-law or residents of Alabama trailer parks marrying their sisters. They require no cleverness or originality, just a knowledge of how such jokes are structured and the ability to recall previous jokes and change them around a little.

The Great Indoors is a show that always goes for the easy, obvious laugh. It's the sort of show that, even when you do laugh - which happens rarely - you don't enjoy the laugh that much, because you've already laughed at that joke hundreds of times before.

The premise is simple. A macho, outdoorsy writer is forced to take an office job amongst callow millennials. He teaches them something about "real life" and they teach himself about the "modern world."

The first thing I find odd about this series is that the clueless old guy is a Gen-Xer. I know a lot of Gen-Xers, and many live on their iPhones, texting and tweeting and posting selfies on Instagram. I feel the character is more like a Baby Boomer; it would make a lot more sense if the part was played by Robert DeNiro. Although I'm a Baby Boomer and look, I'm using the Internet!

The portrayal of Millenials makes me think of elderly comedians on stage going, "man, these kids today with their podcasts and their hip-hop, what's up with them?" It's as though the series is written by aliens who have simply read some joke books but have never actually met any humans.

This is not to say that there aren't young people are technologically adept but a little clueless, or that there aren't fortysomethings who lives have not intersected much with technology. The problem is not showing such characters, but in acting as though these characters aren't individuals but are rather generational archetypes.

I was ready to give up after one episode, but then I happened to see that a couple of people on the IMDb message board for this series said that episode 2 was so much better. This turned out to be untrue; perhaps it was the writers trying to save their show. If so, they put more work into IMDb than they did in writing their jokes.

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

27 October 2016 (USA)

Also Known As:

Lajinsa viimeinen

Filming Locations:

Stage 21, CBS Studio Center - 4024 Radford Avenue, Studio City, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Gibbons Brothers, Shiny Brass Lamp Productions, CBS Television Studios

Technical Specs

Runtime:

30 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

16:9 HD