Grandfathered Season 1 Episode 3 Review: “Guy’s Night”
Unlike last week’s rehashing of the pilot, Grandfathered begins to develop Jimmy and Gerald’s father-son relationship in “Guy’s Night.” By separating the two characters from the rest of the show’s core...
View ArticleGrandfathered Season 1 Episode 4 Review: “Deadbeat”
Four episodes in, Grandfathered continues to be quite the uneven freshman sitcom. It’s a comedy that isn’t all that funny, with many of its big punchlines or physical comedy bits falling flat (at least...
View ArticleGrandfathered Gets Full Season Order at FOX
Looks like John Stamos’ Jimmy is going to have plenty of time to learn how to be the best grandparent possible. FOX has ordered a full season of its freshman sitcom Grandfathered. “Grandfathered had...
View ArticleGrandfathered Season 1 Episode 5 Review: “Edie’s Two Dads”
I really want to love Grandfathered. All the pieces are in place for a great sitcom: a charming premise, a solid structure, and a terrific cast; however, five episodes into Grandfathered‘s first...
View ArticleGrandfathered Season 1 Episode 6 Review: “My Amal”
Grandfathered is a series that I’ve had a lot of mixed feelings about over the course of its first five episodes. While the show had never been bad, per se, it also never produced an episode that I...
View ArticleGrandfathered Season 1 Episode 7 Review: “Sexy Guardian Angel”
What’s worked so well about these past two episodes of Grandfathered, last week’s wonderful “My Amal” and last night’s “Sexy Guardian Angel,” is that the series continues to develop and progress...
View ArticleGrandfathered Season 1 Episode 8 Review: “Gerald’s Two Dads”
Although it pushes some of the character development we saw from Jimmy in last week’s episode of Grandfathered aside, “Gerald’s Two Dads” is another fine installment of FOX’s freshman comedy, as it...
View ArticleGrandfathered Season 1 Episode 9 Review: “Jimmy & Son”
After some initial growing pains in its early episodes, Grandfathered has settled into a nice groove over the past couple of weeks. Is the series “TV’s next great comedy”? No, but with a superb cast, a...
View ArticleGrandfathered Season 1 Episode 10 Review: “Perfect Physical Specimen”
In Grandfathered‘s final few episodes of 2015, it appeared as if the show had upped its game and started to become the sitcom it always had the potential of being. The series knew how to best utilize...
View ArticleGrandfathered Season 1 Episode 11 Review: “The Sat Pack”
I’m starting to wonder if those final few episodes that Grandfathered aired in 2015 were a fluke, because the show’s first two installments of the new year have been incredibly lackluster. While last...
View ArticleGrandfathered Season 1 Episode 12 Review: “Baby Model”
“Baby Model” is a perfectly fine episode of Grandfathered. However, tonight’s “perfectly fine” installment is actually a disappointment because of how much promise the half hour initially had. There’s...
View ArticleGrandfathered: Jimmy, Sara, and Gerald Travel Back to the ’80s in Tonight’s...
Grandfathered has given viewers little glimpses into the ’80s, with the many references to Jimmy and Sara’s past relationship. However, tonight’s all-new episode of the FOX sitcom will take all of its...
View ArticleGrandfathered Season 1 Episode 13 Review: “Tableside Guacamole”
Although comedies have proven that they can be so much more than simply joke delivery machines, sometimes, all you need a sitcom to do is make you smile and laugh. That’s exactly what last night’s...
View ArticleGrandfathered: Jimmy and Gerald Visit a Spa, Sarah and Vanessa Have a Girls’...
Does Jimmy Martino always need validation from women? He certainly doesn’t think so, and he’ll be trying to prove that to Sarah in tonight’s episode of Grandfathered. In the all-new installment, titled...
View ArticleGrandfathered Season 1 Episode 14 Review: “Budget Spa”
Although the characters on Grandfathered have acknowledged Jimmy’s womanizing behavior in the show’s brief time on the air, it’s pretty much been accepted by all of them, thrown around as more of a...
View ArticleGrandfathered: A Drake & Josh Reunion, Jimmy and Sara Visit Edie’s School
If you were a fan of the Nickelodeon show Drake & Josh and wished that Drake Bell and Josh Peck could reunite, then be sure to tune in to tonight’s episode of Grandfathered. The all-new...
View ArticleGrandfathered Season 1 Episode 15 Review: “The Biter”
Since returning from its brief winter hiatus in January, Grandfathered has been very hit-or-miss, with episodes ranging from decent to downright terrible. However, last night’s installment of the FOX...
View ArticleGrandfathered Season 1 Episode 16 Review: “Gerald Fierce”
Nothing is better than when a show surprises you, and that’s exactly what Grandfathered did last night. It would have been so easy for the show to have Jimmy be a fighter, a “tough guy” that was able...
View ArticleGrandfathered: Will Jimmy and Sara Reconnect When He Poses as Her Boyfriend?
One of the very best parts of Grandfathered‘s first season has been the relationship between Jimmy and Sara. As anyone who watches the show knows, the exes were brought together after Jimmy discovered...
View ArticleGrandfathered Season 1 Episode 17 Review: “The Boyfriend Experience”
As someone who has stated on multiple occasions that Jimmy and Sara’s relationship is the best part of Grandfathered, I was incredibly excited when I read the description for “The Boyfriend...
View ArticleGrandfathered Season 1 Episode 18 Review: “Catherine Sanders”
Grandfathered has been on a roll lately with some truly stellar episodes that have fully lived up to all the promise the series had when it debuted back in the fall. Unfortunately, “Catherine Sanders”...
View ArticleGrandfathered Season 1 Episode 19 Review: “Some Guy I’m Seeing”
Even though he’s obsessed with being the perfect everything to everyone, Jimmy Martino is rarely ever the flawless father, grandfather, or, in this case, boyfriend, and he learns one of the main...
View ArticleGrandfathered Season 1 Episode 20 Review: “Jimmy’s 50th, Again”
It’s been nearly two months since Grandfathered aired its last new episode, and while “Some Guy I’m Seeing” wasn’t a bad installment, per se, it continued a mediocre streak that the freshman sitcom had...
View ArticleGrandfathered Season 1 Episode 21 Review: “The Memorial”
Despite the ups and downs Grandfathered has had throughout its first season, the series has always been consistently great when dealing with its two main relationships between Jimmy and Gerald and...
View ArticleGrandfathered Season 1 Episode 22 Review: “The Cure”
TV writers love to end season finales on cliffhangers; not only do these twists and surprises shock the audiences, but they supposedly leave fans wanting more, ensuring they have to tune back in during...
View ArticleGrandfathered and The Grinder End on FOX after 1 Season
Grandfathered and The Grinder looked like they would both be successful on FOX when they premiered last September. The first had veteran sitcom star John Stamos while the latter had two great actors...
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