Sadly Over-hyped

Don't Believe the Hype

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

This show is pretty terrible. I've watched it because it comes on between The Simpsons and Family Guy, which are two of my favorite shows, and also because I liked Corrdry's work on The Daily Show and I really wanted this to be good, for him. I gave it a serious chance- actually got through four episodes (while doing other things, of course, but I was listening). But it was like watching (or listening to) paint dry. I kept thinking to myself "Are they serious? Have any of the producers or writers or Fox or ANYONE remotely involved with making this show available to the public actually watched it? And they still thought it was fit for TV?" Needless to say, it's pretty awful. I won't say it won't get better- Seinfeld wasn't funny to me when it first started (though it was MUCH better than this horrible crap)- but I don't see the light at the end of that tunnel- I mean, even the laugh track sounded like it had trouble. I feel like Fox was slapping me in the face every time they made a "joke". "The Winner" is a total loser... (I know, horribly corny pun on words, but I had to...)

This show is terrible. I love the Daily Show, I love Family Guy. This is NEITHER. What this is, is terrible acting, horrible plot lines, shallow jokes that are only driven by the laugh track and insults. I tried to laugh, I really did, but Lenny Clark is one of the most annoying people on the planet (how does this guy keep getting work?!?) and the Mom of the show (who I'd never heard of before, and probably rightfully so), seemed so insincere about her lines I was waiting for her to look at the camera and say "I quit!" (and I totally wouldn't blame her!) The rest of the characters were so forgettable, it would be unfair to judge them as I have no idea what their point was, let alone who they were! Terrible show, I will never waste another second on this.

To the guy who couldn't believe they would air this show after the simpsons and family guy, as if it's disgracing those two programs, you gotta be kidding me. The simpsons and family guy are sooooo over the hill. It's been years since I've laughed out loud at a new episode of simpsons or family guy, and I used to be one of the biggest fans around of those two shows. Rob Cordry, while his acting at times was a little ridiculous, was hilarious nonetheless and delivered most of his lines fantastically. And I love how he interacts with the 14 year old kid- some of the stuff they said to each other was priceless. To snuggy bear, based on the name you chose for yourself, I'm not surprised you were offended by this show. If it's too edgy for you, try switching over to Nick, Jr.

I am usually tolerant of things that are on television these days...you kind of have to be with the kind of moral-less fodder networks present for the most part (there are exceptions, but that doesn't apply here right now), but the debasing trash of the Winner has reached a new low in comedy. The subject matter (putting down Down Syndrome kids, references to antisemitism, pedophiles, O.J, molestation, and other topics that are sick, and more so that they are used in the context of comedy), the use of profanity, racism (c'mon, you've got to have heard that line about not dating black people like they were a disease), and the obvious sexual innuendos around the kids, like when at the end of the pilot he comes in and says he touched the teen girl's breast (sick) are all contributions to a decay of society to think that it's alright to laugh at that. It shows lack of talent in writing, a total absence of any creativity and more. The fact that Fox airs shows like this is an indication that they are run by baboons (no offense to real baboons) and the network's only redemption is that the Simpsons are still on the air.