Disjointed Season 1 Netflix Series Review

Disjointed (2017-)
Season 1 - episodes (2017)

Watch Disjointed Season 1 on Netflix
Created by: David Javerbaum, Chuck Lorre
Starring: Kathy Bates, Aaron Moten, Tone Bell, Dougie Baldwin, Elizabeth Alderfer, Elizabeth Ho
Rating: TV-MA

Plot
Ruth (Kathy Bates), a lifelong advocate for marijuana legalization, is finally living her dream as the owner of an Los Angeles cannabis dispensary.
Joining her at Ruth's Alternative Caring are three "budtenders" that include her entrepreneurial twenty-something son and a very troubled security guard.

Verdict
In a world where television has gotten impressively ambitious, this stoner comedy is directionless. It invokes the typical and uninspiring stoner jokes, employing a laugh track just in case you forget to laugh. It's network television in design with R-rated language. After two episodes I had seen more than enough of this filler.
Skip it.

Review
This is a typical network sitcom that revolves around Ruth opening a marijuana store. The jokes are tired and obvious, fully relying on stereotypes. Ruth's son Travis is black, apparently just for the jokes. "Butterscotch babies" is a terrible joke that the show refused to leave behind. The laugh track is annoying. It's a shallow, network type comedy. It doesn't attempt genuine comedy, it's just a string of weed jokes.

This isn't without promise. The security guard and his PTSD were a potentially interesting plot. With this upstart business, we get a glimpse of Travis treating it like a start up and trying to market the store, but the show has no interest in that reality. The episodes are cut with a daily weed moment, a promotional video uploaded to an application like Youtube. These short segments are an attempt to be funny, but it doesn't play, much like the show.

I know what's funny, and the laugh track telling me jokes are funny when they aren't becomes obnoxious. The cast delivers lines geared to the laugh track, often pausing. This takes advantage of being on Netflix with R-rated language. I don't have a problem with language, but it's out of place on what is basically a network comedy.

Netflix is going wide instead of deep. I don't blame them for attempting to house a show for anyone and everyone, but this is filler at best and unwatchable at worst.