2015 Pilot First Impressions: FOX’s Grandfathered
To clarify, this article and the ones similar to it are not reviews of this fall/midseason’s pilots (because pilots can change a lot between now and when they broadcast). These are just my first...
View ArticleGrandfathered Taps The Astronaut Wives Club’s Joanna Garcia Swisher to Guest...
Looks like John Stamos’ Jimmy Martino may have a thing for redheads. The Astronaut Wives Club‘s Joanna Garcia Swisher is set to guest star on Stamos’ upcoming FOX comedy Grandfathered. EW.com first...
View ArticleGrandfathered Stages Another Full House Reunion: Dave Coulier to Guest Star
Looks like Grandfathered is bringing in Uncle Joey to help out. The new FOX comedy, which stars John Stamos as a 50-year-old, womanizing restaurateur, has booked the actor’s former Full House costar...
View ArticleGrandfathered Season 1 Episode 1 Review: “Pilot”
In what has been quite a dire fall for new network series, sometimes all a show needs to be is charming, and “charming” is exactly the word I would use to describe Grandfathered. There’s nothing...
View ArticleGrandfathered and The Grinder Get Off to Decent Starts, Agents of...
John Stamos and Rob Lowe helped FOX garner decent ratings on Tuesday night with the premieres of their new shows Grandfathered and The Grinder. As part of the network’s new Tuesday comedy block,...
View ArticleGrandfathered Season 1 Episode 2 Review: “Dad Face”
Second episodes for any series, especially comedies, are difficult, and Grandfathered wasn’t able to rise above those challenges this week. After a wonderfully charming series premiere, the FOX sitcom...
View ArticleGrandfathered 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...
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