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Dad Stop Embarrassing Me - Season 1
A single dad and cosmetics brand owner figures out fatherhood on the fly when his strong-minded teen daughter moves in with him.
30 June 1956, Detroit, Michigan, USA
14 February 1961, Edcouch, Texas, USA
10 July 1988, USA
10 February 1984, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
12 March 1983, Oahu, Hawaii, USA
12 July 1985, Van Nuys, California, USA
April 14, 2021
The show has a warmth that accrues with each episode, making the densely packed gags almost incidental.
April 15, 2021
Has more than enough going for it to recommend.
April 16, 2021
Impressions and tasteless jokes get in the way of building the father-daughter relationship...
April 14, 2021
With Jamie Foxx surfacing more than one character, this feels like a fun project for him rather than the audience.
April 15, 2021
The series occasionally wrestles with this uncomfortable truth, but more often prefers to put Brian in ridiculous situations that all but require Sasha to regularly utter some variation on the title.
April 15, 2021
Even a pair of legends can't quite shake the dust out of this - dust, in fact, that's time-travelled all the way from 1990s TV.
April 15, 2021
Playing the sitcom dad in Netflix's new series, though? This might be the one thing that Jamie Foxx is properly rubbish at.
April 15, 2021
Brian and Sasha take turns talking to the camera, sharing their perspectives with the viewer, but DSEM! never doesn't feel like The Jamie Foxx Show 2, with the showboating actor sucking up all the energy in the room.
April 14, 2021
There's almost something soothing about how predictable it is, right down to the dusty punchlines threaded throughout every scene.
April 15, 2021
Jamie Foxx is a funny guy. You'd just never know it from "Dad Stop Embarrassing Me!"
April 14, 2021
As sitcoms go, 'Dad Stop Embarrassing Me' traffics in broad stereotypes, caricatured characters, and familiar setups to try and make some comedy happen. The results sadly fail to materialise.
