Ready for TV's second comedic series depiction of the build-up to a dysfunctional family Christmas in less than a week?
A Very Anna Karenina Christmas
— he would be forced to acknowledge that while happy families are all alike and each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, every dysfunctional family at Christmastime is, apparently, oddly alike. That's my critical takeaway after spending much of the past two weeks watching eight episodes of Netflix's. The Christmas event series comedy is an idea whose time has come, but creative excitement is not the same as creative achievement, and watched in near-tandem, there's a lot of repetitiveness and sameness between the two early entries in the format.
It's striking how many of the storylines are either predictable messes or rushed messes that only work if the cast sells them hard enough. There's an obligatory cancer plotline, an obligatory infidelity plotline, strange and poorly developed professional subplots and something icky and misconceived with a homeless couple. Attempts to bring in snark to balance the Christmas-y sweetness almost invariably come across as sour or ill-considered at best and shamelessly manipulative at worst.
I'm not sure that I've seen any real evidence that the limited comedy series built around Christmas traditions needs to become a Christmas tradition on its own.Creators: Bob Fisher, Rob Greenberg and Tad Quill from the Australian series
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