Tuesday, March 11, 2008

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia - Season 3



The third and longest season yet is more of the same, that being an edgy, humorous half hour of television. There are a couple of off episodes, which usually occur when the show shifts from being slightly out there to over-the-top silly. This can usually be connected with the McPoyle family. I don't find them funny at all, and season three featured them more than any other. The show is good when the main characters are just taking advantage of people around them and shouting at each other about inane things.

There were a lot of really good episodes along those lines though. The inside jokes and returning characters are becoming more ingrained into the fabric of the show, but they still are able to come up with new ideas and new topics to tackle. Abandoned babies, sexual predators, mental handicaps, nothing is off limits and it's usually funny. There's a running joke during the season where Dennis seems to always find a new reason each episode to take his shirt off, and lots of little things like that that make it entertaining on more than one level. I don't know how long they can keep it up, but I'm hoping it's a while longer.

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