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Saturday, April 16, 2016

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

I generally work online seven days a week 8-10 hours a day. Most of my time working online is spent working on art, be it making designs or putting designs on products on the sites. Working on art, especially putting designs on products on sites, can be awfully boring, so I watch TV while I do it. As you can imagine I watch a lot of TV! I prefer to binge watch shows and watch full seasons in a row. I like to download the shows I watch and keep them, on an external hard drive (The external hard drives is hooked to the Raspberry Pi computer, which is hooked to the TV to play the shows) so I can rewatch them a few years from now if I want.

Generally I have a sitcom and a drama/action show going at any one time. I watch a couple of episodes of one then watch a couple episodes of the other. The sitcom I am watching right now is: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is about: " a group of five depraved underachievers: twins Dennis Reynolds (Glenn Howerton) and Deandra "Sweet Dee" Reynolds (Kaitlin Olson), their friends Charlie Kelly (Charlie Day) and Ronald "Mac" McDonald (Rob McElhenney), and (from season 2 onward) Frank Reynolds (Danny DeVito), the man who raised Dennis and Dee. The Gang runs the dilapidated Paddy's Pub, an Irish bar in South Philadelphia.

Each member of the gang shows varying degrees of dishonesty, egotism, selfishness, greed, pettiness, ignorance, laziness, and unethical behavior; they are often engaged in controversial activities. Episodes usually find them hatching elaborate schemes and conspiring against one another and others for personal gain, vengeance, or simply the entertainment of watching another's downfall. They habitually inflict mental, emotional, and physical pain on each other and anyone who crosses their path. They also regularly use blackmail to manipulate one another and others outside of the group.

The Gang's unity is never solid, and any of them would quickly dump any of the others for quick profit or personal gain, regardless of the consequences. Everything they do results in contention among themselves, and much of the show's dialogue involves the characters arguing or yelling at one another. Despite their lack of success or achievements, they maintain high opinions of themselves and display an obsessive interest in their own reputations and public images.

The Gang has no sense of shame when attempting to get what they want and often engage in activities that others would find humiliating, disgusting, or preposterous. These include smoking crack cocaine and pretending to be mentally challenged in order to qualify for welfare, eating cereal while driving, hiding naked inside a leather couch in order to eavesdrop on someone, coercing people into sleeping with them, forcing each other to eat inedible items, huffing paint, foraging in the sewers for valuables, sleeping with each other's romantic interests, seducing a priest, plugging their open wounds with trash, and stalking their crushes."

(the above show premise came from Wikipedia)

I'd give the show a 3 out of 5 star rating, while my son gives it a 4 out of 5 rating.

I find the humour a little too ridiculous and crass at times.

All in all, not a bad sit-com, definitely for people who do not get offended easily. Its not a show for my mother that's for sure!

The show airs on FXX and has 11 seasons so far (Only 10 episodes per season)




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