No - this first episode wasn't really a 9 - maybe closer to a 7 but seeing all the spoiled whiny slam ratings from others here I had to do something to pull up the average! I couldn't in good conscience give it a 10 but it did NOT deserve the ratings it got from a bunch of close minded people!
No this show will likely not be one of the great all time sitcoms. It won't be a Frasier or a Mork and Mindy. More likely it will be a Joey or a Grown-ish or Different World. The fact is very few shows spun off from great sitcoms have gone on to live up to the show that spawned them. But that doesn't mean that it has no potential as a stand alone comedy unto itself.
This show suffers from what sadly too many popular shows do - a tendency of fans to circle the wagons and protest any perceived threat to their beloved familiar existing show. Their method for doing this is by putting down the spinoff in the hopes that that will lengthen the original. However that's not going to happen. The Goldbergs won't last indefinitely and to the extent it does not in its present form. Adam's going to get less innocent. Once Barry goes off to college or elsewhere like Erica the family environment is going to be pulled even further apart. It hasn't happened yet but we are coming to the end of an era.
This show is clearly NOT trying to follow the Goldberg formula (beyond the style of narration). It's a different show with mostly different characters. Would I love to see more Goldbergs? Sure. But that's no reason not to enjoy this show for what it is which is a reasonably decent comedy. It's NOT the Goldbergs folks - it's going to be a separate series. The Goldbergs will go on separately - this is just an introductory episode!
No this show will likely not be one of the great all time sitcoms. It won't be a Frasier or a Mork and Mindy. More likely it will be a Joey or a Grown-ish or Different World. The fact is very few shows spun off from great sitcoms have gone on to live up to the show that spawned them. But that doesn't mean that it has no potential as a stand alone comedy unto itself.
This show suffers from what sadly too many popular shows do - a tendency of fans to circle the wagons and protest any perceived threat to their beloved familiar existing show. Their method for doing this is by putting down the spinoff in the hopes that that will lengthen the original. However that's not going to happen. The Goldbergs won't last indefinitely and to the extent it does not in its present form. Adam's going to get less innocent. Once Barry goes off to college or elsewhere like Erica the family environment is going to be pulled even further apart. It hasn't happened yet but we are coming to the end of an era.
This show is clearly NOT trying to follow the Goldberg formula (beyond the style of narration). It's a different show with mostly different characters. Would I love to see more Goldbergs? Sure. But that's no reason not to enjoy this show for what it is which is a reasonably decent comedy. It's NOT the Goldbergs folks - it's going to be a separate series. The Goldbergs will go on separately - this is just an introductory episode!