EPISODE
Mulaney - Season 1
It is a series of comedies by John, a young comedian. John tries to take his career to the next level, friends and those around him. It seems that these people are going to lift him up or maybe block him and push him. During a short while, John gets a job in writing comedy, where he tries to fulfill his dream.
31 July 1966, Mt. Clemens, Michigan, USA
9 July 1956, Concord, California, USA
15 October 1943, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
26 March 1950, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
20 June 1999, New York City, New York, USA
September 17, 2014
The series soars when it takes a broader view by pitting the self-promoting narcissism of the roommates against the smug windbaggery of the older generation. And it is, slowly but surely, finding its legs.
October 02, 2014
This one is excruciatingly unfunny, despite the good-natured young talent at the center.
October 02, 2014
In practice, Mulaney is fairly dire. It's an unfortunate reminder that the multi-cam format is an unforgiving beast that can swallow you whole if you aren't constantly feeding it jokes.
October 03, 2014
Mulaney... finds Mulaney surrounded by quirk, some of it good - Martin Short as his boss, Nasim Pedrad as one of his roommates - and some of it just annoying.
October 02, 2014
There are jokes that don't just hit the floor, they feel almost like a sitcom within a funnier film designed to parody bad TV writing.
October 01, 2014
Mulaney's standup work and his Saturday Night Live resume reveal that he's a very funny guy, but this contrived, airless comedy is not a good vehicle for him.
October 02, 2014
So the show seems either a subversive deconstruction of the laugh-track sitcom blueprint or a stupefying misfire built around the blandest star ever.
September 22, 2014
John Mulaney is a great standup comic and former writer for Saturday Night Live. But he's created a humorless sitcom that feels like a bad Seinfeld ripoff.
October 03, 2014
Mulaney is a comic, but he is not an actor. He could in theory grow into one, but he seems very, very ill-suited to it in the early episodes, awkward and stiff reading lines instead of talking to an audience. This is not his wheelhouse.
October 03, 2014
Think it's easy to clone Seinfeld? Fox's dreadful, embarrassing misfire Mulaney proves otherwise.