March Roundup, 2017

"I caught up on all my shows and my entire life is fully manageable now!" ...He said on April 1st. Y'all, I still got shit from January waiting for me to watch it. But, as always, I made sure to check out all the premieres of the month that sounded good enough to watch and the run-down of said premieres are below.

Watch this shit:

• The Comedy Jam

  I am so incredibly about this, that it's ridiculous. Especially considering the fact that I fucking can't stand it when a comedian just whips out a guitar in the middle of a show. But they do that shit right over at The Comedy Jam. Demetri Martin can suck it. Tiffany Haddish for the win.

• Harlots

  I'm not sure how to feel about this one, honestly. It's not poorly made. And I'm all for women power. And the decriminalization of sex workers. But the women vs. women angle of the series is throwing me off. Worth a watch, though.

• Iron Fist

  Apparently (from what I've seen online) this show gets real silly and the fight scenes are a mess, but just based on the first episode... I'm not super mad at it. It's definitely not at the top of the great Marvel shows list, but it's at about the same caliber you'd expect.

• Making History

  Good shit. Funny, interesting, and intriguing good shit. Professor's got a time machine which he uses to visit his girlfriend in way-back-in-the-day-Boston. He pulls a co-worker into the mix and wackiness ensues.

• Nobodies

  Mean Groundlings with guest stars galore. Watch it.

• Snatch

  Wiley British boxing/heist fun. Plus sexy-ass shirtless tattooed men with accents. What more could you want? (I'll be honest, I haven't seen the original movie. But now that I've seen this pilot, I want to.)

Meh:

• Imaginary Mary

  I was fully prepared to hate this show. Crazy Scientology actress + ridiculous concept = no thank you. What literally ALL of the series previews fail to show you is that the dude whom Scientology freak falls for and his three kids are the real stars of the show. And Rachel Dratch, of course. Kinda sucks that she's never gonna get to actually interact with the other great parts of the show (since she voices an imaginary friend that only Dharma can see). Still ends up in "Meh" rather than "Don't watch," though. So, not a hard pass.

• Kicking & Screaming

  I'm on the fence with this one. A bit more on the "don't watch" side, if I'm being honest. A wildlife competition show featuring people who know what the fuck they're doing teamed up with people who have absolutely no idea what in the hell they're doing. There's always a risk in designing a show around annoying people (i.e. no one wanting to watch annoying people). It works for the Kardashians, though, so who knows. (Not that I watch that fucking mess, mind you.)

• Trial & Error

  Another one I'm a little more on the "watch this" side of the fence about. Mockumentary, in the vein of The Office and Parks & Rec, that tries way harder than its predecessors which makes it lose a little bit of the magic. Props for making sexuality being fluid about literal fluids, though. Also #brothercousin.

Don't watch this shit:

• Shots Fired

  Note to creatives and, especially, network execs: You don't need to switch up the facts to be edgy. Were this show about a white cop shooting an unarmed black teenager to death, it might be true to the life and times we all live in today. The cop being black and the unarmed teenager being white makes this police propaganda. And it means a whole hell of a lot that when we get this story told, it doesn't look like the real life stories we witness.