Kevin Can F Himself Season 1 Review 

I actually like that we've jumped to the time-to-kill-the-husband storyline rather than see all of Kevin's horribleness leading up to it. I think we're familiar with this guy that we as the audience can fill in the gaps the writers left. I think the way they've weaved in Kevin's abuse is a good way of keeping the show moving. IMO, Kevin isn't just an obnoxious self absorbed guy like Doug Heffernan-King of Queens. Kevin is a manipulative liar and emotionally abusive. He spent their savings without telling Allison; he called the police on her because she wouldn't answer her phone; he inserted himself in Patty's relationship, he went to her OBGYN to do God only knows. We can literally see Allyson suffocating and although I think divorce is a better option, I can see why she hates him so much that she would want to kill him. Allyson is an anti-hero and I am rooting for her because I want her to be free. However, I know as a viewer that killing her husband will not give her the freedom she think it will. I enjoyed seeing your perspective and I liked the video.

I think the show is really saying more about power of casual misogyny. Kevin is rewarded fro being an idiot and his action are never realistically questioned. He shot someone with an illegally obtained firearm and the police just let him go. Kevin has Batman level plot armor. Alison calls him out on his stupidity and she the villain. As long as Kevin exist she will be the villain. Thats why in this crazy world leaving him is not enough. He has to die for her to be something other than the villain.

While the show did have merits being a clever satire full of sitcom tropes, I think what makes it great is actually how it sheds light on the insidiousness of domestic violence/abuse (we see signs of controlling behaviour throughout the season but they are subtle enough to laugh off). I liked that for most of the show the two parts didn't really come together, and then in the end Neil is sort of dragged into Allison's reality, it would be interesting to see him as a bridge between the two realities in season 2

This review is so weird. Because, I loved the show, while kind having the opposite attitude on so many fronts. Because the Sitcom sections don’t work on their own for me, they only served the dramatic purpose of helping Kevin feel even more absurd and obnoxious, as the world is suddenly forced to revolve around him and distort whenever he or his idiot friends are around. I couldn’t help but darkly root for Alison to kill him. It’s her “breaking bad” that gave the show its compelling hook. I binged the show because I wanted to see if she could pull it off or get away with it. And it is interesting how the final episode makes it seem like in her own way, she’s become as self-centered and manipulative as Kevin, and like Kevin, she is so laser focused on her schemes that she doesn’t see how her agendas affect the people in her life

I think the sitcom sections are in many ways the darkest part of the show. The way that Kevin treats Allison is quite horrible, the way he talks down to her, the gaslighting, the manipulation and slowly breaking her down, is scary accurate to abusive relationships in real life.. and then they add a laugh track on top of that. Which is somewhat true to real life as well as this form of abuse is often hidden and something that people choose not to see; often making excuses like its only harmless jokes, you are overacting and so on. I don't think this show could or should make Kevin more sympathetic, he is an abusive husband, which makes is both difficult and problematic to go down that road. My biggest question is if Kevin if perhaps more insidious than he has been shown thus far. At best he is a narcissistic man child who view his wife as his property.

Kevin can’t become more sympathetic because he’s a narcissist. The purpose of the show is to shine a light on how some people live life without consequences & how sitcoms have used that premise (in the male character lead) as comedy. The person doing this review doesn’t see the consequences or reality of Kevin’s abusive behaviour. Which is fascinating because that is the point the show is making…that we’ve become numb to this type of behaviour & sitcoms have normalised it.

Kevin is terrible. He’s controlling and selfish. Allison’s coping with this reality by creating a sitcom version of her life.

I appreciate the review cause not enough people are watching this great show but I disagree on a lot. I don't think the show should symaothize with Kevin. First, sO many sitcoms in the past have made the audience sympathize with the male character over the wife. Seconnd but more important, Kevin is an abusive husband. He's not just the husband sitcom trope (which should tell you a lot about the husband sitcom trope). He's like any abuser, male or female. But yeah, he's abusive. He CONTROLS the money she makes AND he lost it. Thats economic violence. Not to mention that he got her fired because he thought she was cheating on him. His jealousy, although not outwardly violent, is abusive and controlling. He constantly belittles her to the point that she believes it (the whole im bad at driving mini monologue where she doesnt know if shes ACTUALLY bad at driving or if he has told her so many times that she just think shes is, when she mentions shes just bad with money also gave me vibes that it was something she thiught of herself because Kevin had told her, at one point she has another line thats like 'i didnt finish college and Kevin says its because I never finish things'). The fact that she casually and often puts herself down just show the extent to which this man has emptionally abused her. He reported the car as STOLEN because she didnt answer her phone and he called her like 15 times. That's how an aggressor behave, specially the reporting the car as stolen because it instills fear into the victim (the whole dont do it again) and its manipulative ( I only did this cause you didnt answer). So yeah, I dont want to watch another show in which an abusive man gets more screen time so we can sympathize. Kevin isn't an amalgamation of sitcom husbands (although, a lot of his behavior is part of the trope which 👀); he's a very real image of an aggressor/abusive partner. And yeah, abusers are usually charming and funny and loveable and will not feel like abusers until you're too close to easily pull apart.

The evolution of the narrative is genius. The real show takes place around the sitcom parts. The show was great and the darkest parts were the best parts. The sitcom sections of the show were very cleverly shallow and predictable. It heightened the contrast, and so you needed to read between the lines and conclude yourself why they did the show this way. It forced you to try to imagine what the sitcom parts would look like with that sitcom lens removed. I thought it was pretty brilliant and I was unaware of everything about this show before watching it. It shows a great range in Annie Murphys talent, and for her and her co stars along with the creators of the shown, what that they pulled off was ....like I say, to me, brilliant. I loved it. Darkly funny and original.

Um, weird review. I think you're missing some of the key subtext (and actual point) of the show, because maybe you identify more with Kevin?

I don't agree with you at all. The sitcom parts are not well written. Annie is the star of this show and the only reason to watch.

You obviously missed the entire point. The show is about Narcissistic Abuse. Of course Allison is disconnected. After 16 years of lies, put- downs, manipulations, and being unloved, she has been dying slowly the entire time. The sitcom represents Kevin World. If he's in the room, you are forced to be in his world. Complete with flying monkeys and endless supply of attention to sustain Kevin. Please rewatch this show with this in mind. I understand that Narcissistic Abuse is hard to understand if you haven't lived it. But Allison has.

The first episode made the show seem much more promising than the show actually turned out to be. With the characters compared from Kevin world and Allison world, and the random bits of, what could be argued "slap-stick", I was thinking the show would eventually unfold to reveal that Allison IS actually a part of a sitcom but can't stand it. Sorta a sequel to The Truman Show in a conceptual sense

I'm glad you explained your tastes in great detail at the beginning of the video so I would know right away to not to trust your opinion. I was right, unfortunately, as I disagreed with almost everything you said on the topic. Opinions are opinions afterall.

Thanks for mansplaining a series about the inner life of a woman stuck in her husband’s reality.

3 minutes in and you are reviewing Wandavision.

Spoiler alert: he doesn’t get any more sympathetic

I wonder, if they built 2 sets for this or of everything is lighting and different lenses.

you really nailed this review

>_< Was really hoping for a bit more explanation and more than just the same 5 or 6 clips being played back. But this kinda gives me some perspective I guess

Three minutes. IT took one hundred and eighty seconds to get to point

Fear the walking dead seasons 1-3. Love this format..F kevin

I really enjoyed this show.

Nothing funny about the show, almost fell asleep waiting for something to happen other than the unfunny gags. Couldn't finish ep one.

SUCKS into the 4th show couldn't finish it DONE...COULD BE A GOOD SHOW OUT THE FLASH BACKS..

Show is awful they didnt kill kevin n that sucked, obnoxious character could not watch anymore

Honest review... Truth is only feminists will love this kinda sitcoms,