I think I hate this show. It thinks it's funny and it's so damn smug. And it's really toilet-obsessed.
The source material is full of potty humour of course, before Dav Pilkey's combination of childish jokes and concerns with outsiderism and creativity received its proper maturity with Dogman and the Cat Kid Comic Club; but somehow in the books this gets by, perhaps because they're more focussed on the main adventure narrative. In the Netflix show the obvious jokes are relentless and wearisome. And for a show taken from source material which is so concerned with retribution against bullies and the nature of the outsider, it just seems wrong that here the George and Harold characters so frequently exclude, isolate and vicitimise in their comics Melvin Sneedly, who if he had his just deserts as presented would be recognised as a boy genius. George and Harold are the bullies in this show.
The movie managed the same material with a bit more depth, showing the underlying sadness of the Krupp character. In this television show, he's some kind of sub-normal whose permanent mental and character inadequacies are nothing but an object of mockery. As presented, the character should be in a home for assisted living, not principal of a school.
What can I say, my kids giggle at it. It's a real toss-up which I less like to watch with my kids, this or the absolutely worthless Paw Patrol.
The source material is full of potty humour of course, before Dav Pilkey's combination of childish jokes and concerns with outsiderism and creativity received its proper maturity with Dogman and the Cat Kid Comic Club; but somehow in the books this gets by, perhaps because they're more focussed on the main adventure narrative. In the Netflix show the obvious jokes are relentless and wearisome. And for a show taken from source material which is so concerned with retribution against bullies and the nature of the outsider, it just seems wrong that here the George and Harold characters so frequently exclude, isolate and vicitimise in their comics Melvin Sneedly, who if he had his just deserts as presented would be recognised as a boy genius. George and Harold are the bullies in this show.
The movie managed the same material with a bit more depth, showing the underlying sadness of the Krupp character. In this television show, he's some kind of sub-normal whose permanent mental and character inadequacies are nothing but an object of mockery. As presented, the character should be in a home for assisted living, not principal of a school.
What can I say, my kids giggle at it. It's a real toss-up which I less like to watch with my kids, this or the absolutely worthless Paw Patrol.