The series started a little slow, but it gets better each week. It's finding it's groove. This week's was funny. I really want this show to do well. Glad it's on it's way.
7 Reviews
Finding it's groove
jimbutler1516 January 2021
Everything Gets Better
taramikaelauy15 January 2021
Keeps Getting Worse
EntropyFashion15 January 2021
Most new shows get better as they progress in their initial season but. Not Kat. It remains tone deaf with terrible attempts at humor and still resembles a group of children doing a skit for their parents.
The only positive is that this show made me try Miranda and that show is absolutely delightful. Watch Miranda instead...it's truly funny and wonderful.
Dear God make it stop
fabfrenchy-2534210 February 2021
Bad show promoting bad stereotypes
josemorales-4791130 January 2021
Not only this is a bad show. But it also depicts puerto Rico as a stereotype drug empire that guts people. Not funny... Seriously Biyalik, shame on you for doing that to us. I thought you were better than that and used to be a person i looked up for. Im disappointed in you and this show.
Utter Garbage
igtfblast15 January 2021
May not be THE worst series ever--but it's amongst 'em
FlushingCaps15 January 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Thought I'd give this new series a try before the weekly episode of Last Man Standing. As I understand it, Kat is 39 years old, single (of course) and has just opened up a cafe as the series begins.
In this third episode, Kat comes out like a standup comedian talking directly to the TV audience. OK, she thinks she can be another George Burns. She is wearing some sort of dress with a large cartoonish-like picture of a woman in a ridiculously skimpy bikini. A picture that shows the backside of said woman when she turns around. She starts explaining that she will "catch us up" on what's been happening, starting with her cash register not working, so she got a new one that she gave a name to. I am not kidding.
Then we see her and two friends/co-workers with Kat being told by (apparently a radio DJ) that she is the fifth caller so she wins a trip for two to Puerto Rico. Now we aren't given any indication of just when she had to take this trip-normally you'd have up to a year. Here, she appears to have only had a few days.
The problem was that she couldn't get anyone to go with her-until she asked someone-sorry, I can't provide names but the IMDB list of the "Full Cast and Crew" for this episode is not functioning properly-it shows only three characters, none of whom is the star of the show. There were far more than 3 characters with speaking lines on this episode.
The morning Kat is to leave, the friend who was going with her called to say she had to take someone to the emergency room and cannot go. Kat decides to go by herself, despite a warning from her mother about it being dangerous to travel alone.
Next scene, she is being welcomed by a hotel clerk to Louisville-which is where the show is set. Apparently Kat decided not to go alone on her big free trip, but instead of just going back home and being honest with her friends and mother-as Robin Williams would say, "Honesty, what a concept." It certainly is a rarity on most sitcoms the past 30 years-she plans to lie to them, make them think she went.
So instead of being alone in a big resort hotel for free, she is going to spend several days paying for a fancy hotel in her home city, where she'll be every bit as alone and vulnerable as she would have been in Puerto Rico. I know-it makes no sense whatsoever.
She then learns the hotel is hosting a bourbon tasting (well, they are in Kentucky) event so she lies to the receptionist, picking out a name on a tag on a table saying she is that person, and goes in to have a big crab meal (for free) before someone asks if she'd go to the next room for the tasting event. Here we see that there are, I think they said 18, different glasses with a few ounces of bourbon-all locally distilled-and the person Kat is posing as, is the sole taster in the group. Everyone else is there just to watch her sip the bourbon and give some sort of witty comment about its flavor. Instead of the expected sip and spit, Kat downs the entire glass for each one, then spewing out some ridiculous nonsensical descriptions that the rest of the people think are brilliant.
Other scenes back at the café gives us that nobody knows how to open the new cash register-the code that was written down is missing, so they are having each customer just put money into a jar-whatever they want. Two of this group go off to get something and because in TV land, all towns that aren't New York of Los Angeles are tiny towns so it was inevitable that they would wind up in the same hotel as Kat AND in this large hotel find her.
As she explains what happened to the one guy, they overhear the person Kat posed as, arriving. So they duck out and go to Kat's spacious room. She decides to host a big party-don't know just who was invited but we later saw well over a dozen people in the room-a huge hotel room, bigger than many real-life suites. But she forgot to pack her mouthpiece for her medical condition to keep her jaw in place. So she's going back home to get it.
She slips in and gets it, but finds out her mother is staying in her room and has to hide while her mother goes around the room talking to herself, and we are supposed to be touched as Kat overhears her mother saying how she has worried about her daughter every day of her life.
We finish with Kat and that one guy she was talking to earlier, abandoning their party and going onto the roof of the hotel, where they lay on a blanket and talk. At this point, I haven't seen anything suggesting they are more than friends or co-workers. Kat goes over to the edge of the roof and shouts out something or other, then tells her friend to try the same. We see him going over to the edge and saying something about a rooftop being a cool place for a proposal, and that he loves her and wants to get married. Suddenly he is back on the blanket and we are given to understand that Kat only imagined that scene.
Until now I've avoided mentioning that not only does Kat do a Burns-like standup routine at the beginning, but in almost every scene, sometimes more than once, she looks away from the character she is speaking with and looks right at the TV audience and says things-breaking the fourth wall. Burns did it better 65 years ago, because he would only talk to the audience when he was away from everyone else on the set. Kat is standing right next to a character and suddenly is loudly talking to the audience. I don't know if that character is supposed to hear her or not. What really hurts is nothing she says is funny.
Frankly, nothing on the whole show is funny in the least. From Kat's lying to the last person she thought she could ask to go on the trip with her-saying she was the only person she wanted to go with-through her decision to lie to her mother and friends/co-workers about where she went, and then lying to the bourbon people about who she was, it appears her entire life is based on lies. No wonder she is single. Didn't see anything about any of the other characters to get to like or dislike them. The one I remember is the mother, played by Swoosie Kurtz, who co-starred in a Tony Randall series called Love, Sidney 40 years ago. I see she has appeared in many shows since, but nothing I ever made a habit of viewing.
Since I have a DVD player and thousands of episodes of dozens of good series to view whenever I want, I cannot imagine any reason I will ever give this show another chance. It was that bad. If it was simply unfunny and uninteresting, I would give it a 2 out of 10, but I found Kat's constant lying about everything to everyone to be offensive, so it gets only a 1 from me. It may not be the worst sitcom I've ever viewed, but I have no doubt it will be off the air so soon that it will be as forgotten as the other worst shows I've ever seen.
In this third episode, Kat comes out like a standup comedian talking directly to the TV audience. OK, she thinks she can be another George Burns. She is wearing some sort of dress with a large cartoonish-like picture of a woman in a ridiculously skimpy bikini. A picture that shows the backside of said woman when she turns around. She starts explaining that she will "catch us up" on what's been happening, starting with her cash register not working, so she got a new one that she gave a name to. I am not kidding.
Then we see her and two friends/co-workers with Kat being told by (apparently a radio DJ) that she is the fifth caller so she wins a trip for two to Puerto Rico. Now we aren't given any indication of just when she had to take this trip-normally you'd have up to a year. Here, she appears to have only had a few days.
The problem was that she couldn't get anyone to go with her-until she asked someone-sorry, I can't provide names but the IMDB list of the "Full Cast and Crew" for this episode is not functioning properly-it shows only three characters, none of whom is the star of the show. There were far more than 3 characters with speaking lines on this episode.
The morning Kat is to leave, the friend who was going with her called to say she had to take someone to the emergency room and cannot go. Kat decides to go by herself, despite a warning from her mother about it being dangerous to travel alone.
Next scene, she is being welcomed by a hotel clerk to Louisville-which is where the show is set. Apparently Kat decided not to go alone on her big free trip, but instead of just going back home and being honest with her friends and mother-as Robin Williams would say, "Honesty, what a concept." It certainly is a rarity on most sitcoms the past 30 years-she plans to lie to them, make them think she went.
So instead of being alone in a big resort hotel for free, she is going to spend several days paying for a fancy hotel in her home city, where she'll be every bit as alone and vulnerable as she would have been in Puerto Rico. I know-it makes no sense whatsoever.
She then learns the hotel is hosting a bourbon tasting (well, they are in Kentucky) event so she lies to the receptionist, picking out a name on a tag on a table saying she is that person, and goes in to have a big crab meal (for free) before someone asks if she'd go to the next room for the tasting event. Here we see that there are, I think they said 18, different glasses with a few ounces of bourbon-all locally distilled-and the person Kat is posing as, is the sole taster in the group. Everyone else is there just to watch her sip the bourbon and give some sort of witty comment about its flavor. Instead of the expected sip and spit, Kat downs the entire glass for each one, then spewing out some ridiculous nonsensical descriptions that the rest of the people think are brilliant.
Other scenes back at the café gives us that nobody knows how to open the new cash register-the code that was written down is missing, so they are having each customer just put money into a jar-whatever they want. Two of this group go off to get something and because in TV land, all towns that aren't New York of Los Angeles are tiny towns so it was inevitable that they would wind up in the same hotel as Kat AND in this large hotel find her.
As she explains what happened to the one guy, they overhear the person Kat posed as, arriving. So they duck out and go to Kat's spacious room. She decides to host a big party-don't know just who was invited but we later saw well over a dozen people in the room-a huge hotel room, bigger than many real-life suites. But she forgot to pack her mouthpiece for her medical condition to keep her jaw in place. So she's going back home to get it.
She slips in and gets it, but finds out her mother is staying in her room and has to hide while her mother goes around the room talking to herself, and we are supposed to be touched as Kat overhears her mother saying how she has worried about her daughter every day of her life.
We finish with Kat and that one guy she was talking to earlier, abandoning their party and going onto the roof of the hotel, where they lay on a blanket and talk. At this point, I haven't seen anything suggesting they are more than friends or co-workers. Kat goes over to the edge of the roof and shouts out something or other, then tells her friend to try the same. We see him going over to the edge and saying something about a rooftop being a cool place for a proposal, and that he loves her and wants to get married. Suddenly he is back on the blanket and we are given to understand that Kat only imagined that scene.
Until now I've avoided mentioning that not only does Kat do a Burns-like standup routine at the beginning, but in almost every scene, sometimes more than once, she looks away from the character she is speaking with and looks right at the TV audience and says things-breaking the fourth wall. Burns did it better 65 years ago, because he would only talk to the audience when he was away from everyone else on the set. Kat is standing right next to a character and suddenly is loudly talking to the audience. I don't know if that character is supposed to hear her or not. What really hurts is nothing she says is funny.
Frankly, nothing on the whole show is funny in the least. From Kat's lying to the last person she thought she could ask to go on the trip with her-saying she was the only person she wanted to go with-through her decision to lie to her mother and friends/co-workers about where she went, and then lying to the bourbon people about who she was, it appears her entire life is based on lies. No wonder she is single. Didn't see anything about any of the other characters to get to like or dislike them. The one I remember is the mother, played by Swoosie Kurtz, who co-starred in a Tony Randall series called Love, Sidney 40 years ago. I see she has appeared in many shows since, but nothing I ever made a habit of viewing.
Since I have a DVD player and thousands of episodes of dozens of good series to view whenever I want, I cannot imagine any reason I will ever give this show another chance. It was that bad. If it was simply unfunny and uninteresting, I would give it a 2 out of 10, but I found Kat's constant lying about everything to everyone to be offensive, so it gets only a 1 from me. It may not be the worst sitcom I've ever viewed, but I have no doubt it will be off the air so soon that it will be as forgotten as the other worst shows I've ever seen.
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