Review

Forrest MacNeil reviews life as it is; are you curious to know what it’s like to be a racist, a junkie, to participate in an orgy, to be a registered FilmBooster user, to be Batman or even an Irishman, for god’s sake? Forrest undergoes all these trials for you, reviews it and so you find out if any of it would be worth trying... Veiled in the format used by real shows with a similar focus, it slams American values from top to bottom. And what else can you expect from a show from Comedy Central, who poke fun at political correctness as a matter of course? Each episode consists of two or three “reviews" and so it’s fairly clear that all of them maintain the same level of quality; it doesn’t start getting going (if you can say that about this type of format) until episode three. Luckily every episode contains at least (more than) one segment that squeezes all it can out of the chosen concept. And that is the main difference from the Australian original, which has good ideas, but doesn’t take them quite so far (although I only saw two episodes, so it’s possible that it got better after a while). The problem in many cases lies in Andrew Daly who is answerable for the whole thing. Because his demeanor so unusual that his spontaneity will either infuriate you or infinitely entertain you. (31/08/2014)