PodBill
Just what I expected
FuzzyTagz
If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.
Deanna
There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.
Kayden
This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama
kbest-48970
This show just isn't funny. Some of the topics have been interesting but the jokes just fall. I swear if I hear about the girlfriend being biracial one more time. Who cares????!!!! It's just stupid the thing where the brother lives with the boyfriend and ex. Is he just a plain stupid black man. I must be missing something because I don't know what kind of job the main "actor" has. Actor is in quotes because I WISH HE WOULD TAKE ACTING LESSONS. HE IS AWFUL. I don't even remember his name..... oh the Carmichael or whatever guy. I do like the mom but she's too loud. and the Dad is just dumb but funny. The Dad is saving the show.
warnd
Warning this review contains a spoiler.They resorted to using Dale Earnhardts death as the brunt of their comedy I was truly disturbed by this and will not support further production of this show in anyway, shape or form.I hope others agree with me and boycott this show as I will. I am very disappointed NBC would even endorse this ignorance and insult to every racing fan that watched a legend die on Feb 18, 2001.To learn more about what happened and my feelings on this episode and to discuss it please visit my message board on this site titled the same as above. Thank you.
sydw
I absolutely love this show. I love the content. It is very up to date and accurate to the African American life in the south. Please continue with this show. David Alan Grier and Loretta Devine are awesome together. I love the relationship they have. It reminds me of the love that I have seen within my parents and other Black relationships that have stood the test of time. I pray that the station keeps this show and give it more advertisement. The comedian Jerrod Carmichael is great, how I myself may have a hard time relating to my siblings on current event. This show is so on point.Tiffany Hoddish is a bit much, but there are some family members that I have are exactly like that.
Charles Herold (cherold)
For me, watching The Carmichael Show was like watching a stand-up comic do a routine about how they grow up that has the audience in stitches but doesn't get as many laughs out of you because that's just not how you grew up. I feel the humor is reliant on a middle-class black cultural experience that I haven't had, so a lot of jokes go right over my head. I'm not saying that as a criticism, I'm just saying I can tell I'm missing a lot of jokes, so take my thoughts on the show with a grain of salt.Overall, the first episode is a cute, fairly standard family comedy in which a fairly sane young couple deals with his less down-to-earth family. There were some good moments, although I felt the jokes weren't as organic as they might be; it felt the show knew what joke it wanted to tell but didn't always have a natural path to it. Which of course is pretty common in sitcoms.The acting seemed rather weak. Certainly there have been worse actors on sitcoms (Jerry Seinfeld springs to mind) but in this case I thought pretty much *all* the acting was weak. It felt like everyone was a comedian but no one was an actor (except perhaps the brother, who seemed relatively solid).The pilot seems a bit unsure of itself, but I could see this show developing into something pretty good, within the limits of this sort of family sitcom, which is not my favorite form of comedy.I wouldn't try and dissuade anyone from checking this out, but for me, it doesn't quite work.
