Anyone watch It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia?

[krtek a houby]

For me it was the COVID era Ireland episodes of season 15. Surely season 16 can't be any worse than that?

Haven't reached them yet. Without massive spoilers, what was bad about them? Did they fall into the stock clichés about Ireland?

 

[DaveCinzano]

I mean, sure, but they were just not Philly funny. Plus the characters were on various quests that made them semi-sympathetic, which is not what you want from your IASIP assholes.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Finished watching the new series, and still think it's fallen off a fair bit. Maybe it's just that I've lost some of the goodwill I had for it but even though the new series wasn't terrible, I still struggle to think of any moments that produced a single actual laugh out loud. Feels like the manic energy that used to be there is pretty much gone.

I was really into it the first time round, but am finding quite a lot of it a bit tedious on a rewatch.
Interestingly, I wasn't originally enamoured by the the first pre Davito stuff, but on rewatching I enjoyed that more than the rest. It wasn't so over the top and Charlie wasn't out and out insane.
There are definitely some fantastic ideas and episodes, but yeah, it feels like it has gone off the boil. Are the new episodes worse, or have we just got bored with the formula?

Ireland was a self contained cringe laden season. Can that even be counted? I assume they were under some pressure to produce something, and somehow took the entire cast including Al to the beach.