Unscripted and Relaxing
I can easily say that I have managed to not watch a lot of TV recently, not from choice as I’ve just been doing plenty of other things that I probably should’ve always been doing instead of being lazy all day. Today I got a little time to sit down and just turn on my TV, I also made the strange decision to not turn on the Winter Olympics as my excitement for that is slowly dying down. I sat there and remembered that Joel McHale’s new show is out on Netflix today and maybe I should give it a shot. If there is one thing that is missing from my regular schedule, not that I actually have one, it’s a weekly show that I can watch to catch up on everything. The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale (my god that annoying to type, well done) is that weekly show for me, not because it covers everything I need to know about Donald Trump from this last week but because it’s all the useless junk I’d rather see and now it’s all the useless junk I’d rather see Joel McHale make fun of.
The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale is a weekly show on Netflix where the host, Joel McHale obviously, stands in front of a green screen and a live studio audience and well he basically makes fun of pop culture from both America and all around the world. That is all of it really, I would usually spend this part of my reviews explaining the plot without trying to spoil it but I wouldn’t normally review something like this but after watching this I realised that more people need to see the show and do what I did and just relax a little.
The show gained positive praise from me by simply not wasting my time, right from the start Joel McHale is hilarious and the content written by himself and his team is fantastic too. The whole show has a low budget “we can do what we want” attitude to it and it’s a fresh new thing to see from Netflix as I feel like as a service this is the type of show they were missing. The normal ridiculously named segments are simplified down to segments called ‘Sports Segment’ and ‘Joel’s international Corner’ where even the names of the segments are jokes that anyone else could do but this show has a ‘Nah screw that we’ll do it our way’ attitude which then turns into jokes that do a great job at making fun of people whilst also entertaining those same people at the same time.
What I’m trying to say, but probably doing it poorly because how do you actually review a show that is just 27 minutes of quality jokes, is that The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale is a simple show for everyone (not for children) and at first you might think about why you’re watching it at all but as the little dot on the timebar slowly moves towards the end you find yourself not caring about what every other weekly show host is talking about but instead pushing yourself further and further into the couch with every joke. Although I would like the show to have a little bit more of what you might call a production budget, what they’re doing with what they have is still really good. Welcome back Joel McHale and well done Netflix…the only bad part of the show was the part where I found out that they only ordered thirteen episodes.