Review!

Review returns for a second season tonight at 10 PM on Comedy Central.

Andy Daly plays straightlaced “life reviewer” Forrest MacNeil – that is, instead of reviewing films or books or restaurants, Forrest reviews user-submitted life experiences – like divorce, or drug addiction, or eating thirty pancakes.

The “on-camera” review segments are funny on their own – but the real draw of the show is the (faux-)”reality” darkness, as the cumulative damage to Forrest’s real life, from his insane dedication to seeing each review through to the end, continually piles up in sometimes-disturbing, always-hilarious ways.

A commenter at the AVClub noted that the basic story setup was reminiscent of the Biblical story of Abraham and Isaac, wherein God commanded a righteous man to do the unthinkable and sacrifice his son; only here in the twenty-first century, we too often take our marching orders from the Almighty Twitter instead.

Expected S2 Grade (I haven’t seen it yet, but the DVR is set and I can’t wait): Five Stars.