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Review of "Outmatched"
1/24/20 by
Eva Diaz
airs Wednesdays, 8:30/7:30c on FOX
I saw the commercial for this show, and it looked funny.
I wasn't disappointed - it is very funny! Jason Biggs and
Maggie Lawson play Kay and Mike, two working class parants
trying hard to raise their four children. What makes their
lives different than your average family is that three out
of four of their children are genuises. Mike and Kay feel
ill-equpped to raise their kids, who are smarter than they
are. They want to give them some sense of a normal life.
They struggle to get their kids to do normal kid activities,
but they're also happy to have at least one normal IQ
daughter, whom they can relate to more. Jason Biggs and
Maggie Lawson have great chemistry and are very funny as the
put-upon parants who try their best not to show to their
kids that most of the time they don't understand the
complicated things that they tell them.
I think this
show is great, and with Last Man Standing on before it, the
show should do very well... it's very fun to watch. I give
it a 5 out of 5 stars. I think you will enjoy it.
MORE INFORMATION:
From writer/executive producer Lon Zimmet
(“LA to Vegas”) comes OUTMATCHED, a multi-camera family
comedy about a blue-collar couple in Atlantic City trying to
raise four kids – three of whom just happen to be certified
geniuses.
For most parents, parenting is hard. But
for KAY (Maggie Lawson, “Lethal Weapon,” “Psych”), a
caustic, take-no-prisoners casino pit boss, and husband MIKE
(Jason Biggs, “Orange Is the New Black,” the “American Pie”
franchise), a handyman and uncultivated guy’s guy, parenting
may as well be advanced calculus. Dealing with the demands
and egos of three high-IQ children would be tricky for any
parent, but it’s especially hazardous for two working stiffs
who barely got through high school. Mike and Kay are
committed to bringing some normalcy to their kids’ hectic,
unconventional childhoods, but these geniuses don’t make it
easy.
Leading the charge is BRIAN (Connor
Kalopsis, “The Grinder”), a condescending and pretentious
16-year-old math whiz, who thinks he already knows more
about the world than Mike and Kay ever will, even though
he’s never actually been out of New Jersey. His 15-year-old
sister, NICOLE (Ashley Boettcher, “Lost in Oz”), is a
deceptive and fiercely competitive language prodigy who can
manipulate her parents into getting anything she wants. The
youngest and most recently anointed child prodigy is MARC
(Jack Stanton, “The Mick”), a 10-year-old music savant.
Introverted and idiosyncratic, he just wants everyone to
leave him alone, so he can become the next Beethoven in
peace.
The only child not driving their parents
crazy is eight-year-old LEILA (Oakley Bull, “Beautiful
Boy”), who is decidedly not a genius. In fact, she might be
kind of dumb. She’s the only kid Mike and Kay even remotely
understand. Additionally, the couple’s childhood friends,
RITA (Tisha Campbell, “Martin,” EMPIRE) and IRWIN (Finesse
Mitchell, “Saturday Night Live”), provide a sounding board
for their daily parenting struggles.
OUTMATCHED takes an honest and heightened
look at every parent’s worst fear – that they’re “ruining”
their kids. When you have children with the type of gifts
that can change the world, the pressure is really on. Raise
them right, and these kids could cure cancer, stop global
warming or invent time travel. But screw it up, and you
could unleash three new super villains into the universe –
good luck!
OUTMATCHED is produced by 20th Century
Fox Television and FOX Entertainment. Lon Zimmet is the
executive producer.
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