Welcome to Flatch (2022)

Watchseries; It's produced by "BBC Studios" as evidenced by the credit at the end of each episode.

It is, however, a much inferior knockoff of HBO's "Somebody Somewhere" which literally had the exact same introduction scene of the farm, all the way down to the silo shown. That show actually turned out to be cute and funny with likeable characters. This show, not so much.

It's produced by "BBC Studios" as evidenced by the credit at the end of each episode.

It is, however, a much inferior knockoff of HBO's "Somebody Somewhere" which literally had the exact same introduction scene of the farm, all the way down to the silo shown. That show actually turned out to be cute and funny with likeable characters. This show, not so much.

Welcome to Flatch watchseries. Flatch is one of those shows where people have betting pools on how soon it will be cancelled. I have 4 episodes, which is the Fox record set by the woefully bad Sons of Tucson. It will probably go longer but it really doesn't deserve to, why?

Here's my take. The cast is passable. Sam Straley and Seann William Scott are quite good actors with good comic timing. The rest of the cast fall into the average to mediocre range, not bad, just there. Put them in a good vehicle with funny and clever writing and you might have a decent show. Sadly, the writing is neither.

Shrub (Straley) is offensive on so many levels he is difficult to even watch. He is terminally clueless as to how society works and how people interact and he is also quite stupid. I simultaneously want to protect him and beat some common sense into him.

Kelly on the other hand is savvy enough to want to improve her life, just not quite smart enough to pull it off. She comes off as mean, arrogant, and abusive and again, quite stupid.

On a good day Shrub is likeable. Kelly is a horrible person full-time, she is never likeable.

We are supposed to blame the pair's shortcomings on the town of Flatch. This is a throwback to the bad old days of American fiction, TV and movies, that portray every small town (usually Southern or Midwestern) as being populated by idiots, scoundrels, bigots, hicks, and morons. So please forgive the shortcomings of Shrub and Kelly, they live in a small town after all, may god have mercy on their souls.

Flatch tries to hide its basic incompetency and badness by pretending to appeal to hipsters. They are telling us that if we don't get it, we're just not cool or hip enough to understand.

Please. This is just a good old fashioned dog of a TV show with zero redeeming qualities.

Sean William Scott and the ensemble cast are funny and sweet in this mockumentary. The only character I'm not 'in-like' with is Kelly. Better in the second episode.

Yet another fake documentary format comedy. Can we stop doing this? It is not funny AT ALL. I mean AT ALL. It's not even semi-amusing with likable characters, like so many other shows out there.

Network television is getting worse and worse every year.

That's it.

FOX is broken.

Scott is the straight man, go figure.

They demand 150 words minimum to submit a review, blah, blah, blah-blah, blah.

Enough yet?

I stared at the TV for 30 minutes wondering where the funny parts were. It just seems like such a forced show. I don't understand these shows like "The Office" where a TV crew interviews mediocre people in a mediocre town. This show comes off as one that was filmed a while ago and the test screening wasn't positive but the network had nothing else to put on so this show squeezed through.