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Outmatched's Biggs and Lawson

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.

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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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