F is For Family Season 1 TV Review

F is For Family Season 1 (2015-)
Created by: Bill Burr, Michael Price
Starring: Bill Burr, Laura Dern, Justin Long. Debi Derryberry, Sam Rockwell

F is for Family - One season was enough for me.

Plot:
This Netflix original animated series portrays the middle class Murphy family in the '70s. Frank is the short tempered patriarch, a Korean war veteran working in the baggage department at an airline. His wife Sue is a stay at home mom. They have three kids Kevin, Bill, and Maureen.

Verdict:
The show feels like the authentic childhood back in my day tales I often heard growing up. Sometimes families yell at and antagonize each other, but when it comes down to it they love each other. This series is based on comedian Bill Burr's childhood, growing up in the '70s.

This is an R rated sit-com cartoon. It shares some family sensibilities with Married...With Children and That '70s Show, but with the crassness prevalent in shows today. I can't call the gross out or shock jokes this show revels in funny because it's not. It's not clever, and it doesn't take any thought.
 Each episode tries to gross you out in various ways by depicting a child pulling up to a crowded row of urinals in a nasty restroom, an adolescent jamming fiberglass insulation down the front of the diaper he is inexplicably wearing, or a scrotum in mid coitus. It always feels unnecessary, and it overshadows the story the show is trying to tell.

The credits sequence that opens each episode shows that the creators can tell a good story. In just a minute and a half, Frank the father's story is revealed. Without any dialog we know that he got his girlfriend pregnant, got married, went to Korea, then had to get a job. I wish the rest of the episodes were as deft at crafting a story. The show has a few moments. but I'm not left wanting more or wanting to revisit season one.
Skip it.

Recap
The show captures ubiquitous moments, like getting a call during dinner. Franks vows not to answer it, but of course finally relents and is enraged when it's a solicitation. The situations feel familiar,  and most are well told. The cartoon style makes it feel like an exaggerated, distorted memory, as childhood stories often are.

The Murphy family preparing to unify and beat up another family.

When the oldest Kevin helps his little brother, he of course punches him afterwards. After the family gets a new color television, because Frank lied and said he had one, Bill damages it with a magnet. Though the store won't replace it, Bill ultimately triumphs and gets it replaced.

When Frank takes Kevin to work with him, as a method to motivate him at school, Kevin ends up doing drugs with the baggage handlers.
Frank is working class and has to deal with being shunned at work when he becomes the manager. He has a slovenly boss he hates, and now he's a boss employees don't like based on title alone.
He's also displeased that his wife is looking for a job. Frank is distraught when she leaves him to do all the house work

Bill gets suspended for fighting, despite his little sister Maureen intervening and ending the fight. Frank tries to get concert tickets for Kevin in a new parenting method he and Sue are trying.
If you want to avoid an animated scotum. It happens in episode five while Bill is trapped under his parents bed. What's the point of it? Why do so many comedies rely on shock value? Is that the method employed when you can't implement a truly funny or clever joke? I can't call it humor, it's not.

Frank stops the strike, unifies the airline but loses his job all on Christmas Eve. The family pulls together to beat up a bully and his dad who are after Bill