This made me laugh a couple of times including Moe's 'he's choking' line, but as others say, it felt like an advertisement, mainly due to Lisa's song. After watching it I thought it would've been something Disney asked The Simpson's production team to do, but apparently it was the other way around. Disappointing after the engaging few minutes of opening where Homer and Goofy seemed like they'd make a good comedy pairing for a longer film/episode.

First two songs are crap. 'Break Stuff' and 'Re-Arranged' are much more likeable . 'I'm Broke' is weak and there is nothing again decent until the Premier produced and Method Man featured 'N 2 Gether Now'. Nothing amazing with too many songs that sound the same. The general consensus is that they got worse from here, but 'Results May Vary' has a number of tracks with more variety that I enjoy a lot more than anything here.

A decent first series about an Irish crime family that hit its peak around the middle. I found the last few episodes less thrilling. From memory, the 6th was the most lackluster. There is one absolutely ridiculous moment in this that I must mention. After the family get into a war with another mobb, when they are given police protection around their house and everything, one of the brothers actually goes to meet his estranged daughter. If he loved her as much as the show pushes, to put her in such danger was hard to fathom and was poor writing. The music that plays throughout most dramatic moments is meh...

Two episodes in, this is engaging enough to make me stick with the series, but coming from Merchant, I expected more laughs. Don't go in expecting the laughs-a-minute ratio to be as high as much of his past work. It's a crime/thriller first and foremost before a comedy. One of the biggest issues with this, that some other reviewers have pointed out, is the left wing vs right wing BS between a couple of the characters, or how it's framed in the 1st episode, the right winged 'blowhard' and left winged militant... I mean, this is the same 'militant' who actually pulls someone up for saying coloured person instead of person of colour. Insufferable! Coming from Merchant, who on his amazing XFM radio shows and podcasts with Gervais and Karl, was as un-PC as it got at times, it is surprising. Some of the characters are cliched on the surface, like the Indian young female with helicopter parents and the 'person of colour' being entangled in gang life, but they are varied and each have their own story. And then, there is Christopher Walken who is great in anything.

"The story takes place in an alternative America where the blacks are members of social elite, and whites are inhabitants of inner city ghettos." This premise pique my interest but unfortunately it doesn't amount to much. I don't know what the writer, Desmond Nakano, was exactly trying to do here, but it doesn't work. Disregarding that failed attempt at social commentary, and just looking at this as a poor family guy taking a wealthy man hostage, I didn't find this to be a complete mess or bore, but it has issues. The major one is that he takes his hostage everywhere in public, even on a trip with his son. It's fairly ridiculous. I found Louis' wife fairly unsupportive as well once things turned sour.