Nayan Gough
A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
Ella-May O'Brien
Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.
Geraldine
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
bandito
I liked it.
too bad only 2 seasons.
main actress funny and physical.
the Spanish servant make a great duo for the physical comedy.
recommended.
kdelmo
I am gravely concerned about the messages being echoed in this Sitcom.First of all, the plot of this Sitcom is based on the care of three minors by a dysfunctional and sexually promiscuous Aunt who is "living in sin" with her boyfriend who she has now brought under the same roof as the minors in her care. Do we all not see the immorality in this?Secondly, all the characters in this Sitcom are all living off the ill-gotten wealth of a convicted criminal accused of defrauding his clients and investors. Do we all not see the wrong in this?Thirdly, the "maid" is portrayed as an lazy, obese Hispanic woman. Really!!! Is this the way the Hispanic community would like to be represented on a major Network Syndicated Sitcom?Do you find the answers to these questions troubling? I do.So my final question is....Why is this program still being broadcasted?
chrisdye-76282
I have been watching this from the beginning and after the second season opener its official miss mickey is a mother of all mothers shes hilarious and the situations she goes threw to get some love from her family is a good example of what a mother who loves her kids does please don't watch this expecting good morals cause your gonna be disappointed however if you watch for a laugh you will for sure be glad you watched
julesfdelorme
The Mick I was trying to explain to a friend once why I loved the series My Name Is Earl and Raising Hope but didn't like Trailer Park Boys. All three series are dealing with similar characters and situations: white trash characters interacting with the world. The answer that I came up with is that I felt that My Name Is Earl and Raising Hope were not mean. In fact they seemed to love their characters. These are good people who just happen to be poor and poorly educated, while Trailer Park Boys, to me at least, is mean. Those characters are bad people and the show operates on a kind of premise that poor people are stupid, alcoholic and nasty. I actually grew up underneath the white trash labels. Being native meant I wasn't even good enough to be white trash. So I know a little bit about the people in those worlds. Yes, some of them are nasty alcoholic and/or drug addicted idiots. So are a lot of middle class and wealthy people. Many of the people that I grew up with were criminals because they knew nothing else and had no other real options. Many of them were poorly educated and had some misguided ideas, but underneath all of that, many of them also wanted to be good. They just didn't know how. I'm not saying all of them are like this. I'm saying that there is another side to that world that is not obvious if you have not lived in it. Its not easy to find a balance between not romanticising this kind of character and just being mean and judgemental. Its even harder to do that in a comedy setting. It is built into the nature of comedy that you are making fun of someone and something. What I loved about My Name Is Earl and Raising Hope was their exquisite ability to make fun of these people and love them at exactly the same time. You see something similar in the brilliant adjustment The Simpson's made from underground cartoon to TV short to long running series, particularly when Conan O'Brian was at the helm. It is also part of the basic differences between Jon Stewart and Bill Maher's approach to comedy. There is an attitudinal gap between pointing a finger and laughing at others and being willing to include yourself as part of the comedy, in treating your subject as a familiar rather than a removed object of comedy. One recognises that we are all just a funny bunch of monkeys and the other says that monkeys are funny but we are not. The great advantage to the former approach to comedy is that it leads to guilt free laughter. We can laugh at Homer and Earl because we recognise ourselves in their absurd behaviour, but it feels like we are laughing at Randy and Bubbles, just as Bill Maher wants us to laugh at Donald Trump but not Bill Maher while Jon Stewart welcomed us to laugh at both Donald Trump and himself. There doesn't seem to be any obvious connection between the people who brought us My Name is Earl or Raising Hope and those that bring us The Mick, but the feeling is very much the same. I have no idea why they'd insist on calling this show The Mick, which makes me think of some kind of Irish gangster, Guy Ritchie type of show. I mean I get that the lead character name is Mickie, and some of the other characters call her Mick, but the title seems to have been poorly thought out for the associations potential audiences might make. Still, The Mick is a truly funny show. There are moments when it is actually hilarious and truly laugh out loud funny. Kaitlin Olson, who you might recognise from It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, shows off a capacity for Carol Burnett-like physical comedy and timing as a white trash woman who is forced to care for her sister's wealthy and spoiled children when the sister and the sister's husband flee the law. It doesn't sound like all that funny a premise but the writing and the performances, particularly by Olson, Carla Jimenez as the suddenly liberated maid, Scott MacArthur as the trashy untitled boyfriend and Jack Stanton as youngest boy, Ben, who somehow manages to be sweet and innocent while also matching the adults in comedic timing, make everything work in surprising and and often truly howling out loud funny ways. There is a sweetness underneath all the stereotyping that makes The Mick a show filled with guilt free laughter just as it did with My Name Is Earl or The Simpsons at their best. The humour is never just mean and the actors manage to lift their characters enough above caricature that the comedy it rarely feels stale or forced. The Mick isn't breaking new ground. It isn't like nothing else you've ever seen. But it is genuinely funny. And how many network sitcoms can you say that about today?
