EPISODE
Mulaney - Season 1
The comedy series follows the story of a young man named John. John is an ambitious young man who tries to become a comedian. John tries to elevate his career to a good path through his friends and mentors who elevate him and hinder him and push him a lot. John gets his first job in the comedy field where his life trajectories change.
1 July 1980, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
29 April 1952, Chicago, Illinois, USA
20 June 1999, New York City, New York, USA
7 January 1992, London, Ontario, Canada
6 February 1980, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
October 03, 2014
Think it's easy to clone Seinfeld? Fox's dreadful, embarrassing misfire Mulaney proves otherwise.
October 02, 2014
In practice, Mulaney is fairly dire. It's an unfortunate reminder that the multi-cam format is an unforgiving beast that can swallow you whole if you aren't constantly feeding it jokes.
October 02, 2014
So the show seems either a subversive deconstruction of the laugh-track sitcom blueprint or a stupefying misfire built around the blandest star ever.
September 22, 2014
John Mulaney is a great standup comic and former writer for Saturday Night Live. But he's created a humorless sitcom that feels like a bad Seinfeld ripoff.
October 02, 2014
There are jokes that don't just hit the floor, they feel almost like a sitcom within a funnier film designed to parody bad TV writing.
September 17, 2014
The series soars when it takes a broader view by pitting the self-promoting narcissism of the roommates against the smug windbaggery of the older generation. And it is, slowly but surely, finding its legs.
October 02, 2014
This one is excruciatingly unfunny, despite the good-natured young talent at the center.
October 03, 2014
Mulaney... finds Mulaney surrounded by quirk, some of it good - Martin Short as his boss, Nasim Pedrad as one of his roommates - and some of it just annoying.
October 03, 2014
Mulaney is a comic, but he is not an actor. He could in theory grow into one, but he seems very, very ill-suited to it in the early episodes, awkward and stiff reading lines instead of talking to an audience. This is not his wheelhouse.
October 01, 2014
Mulaney's standup work and his Saturday Night Live resume reveal that he's a very funny guy, but this contrived, airless comedy is not a good vehicle for him.
