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maybe
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briefly

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brand
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comment
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briefly
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number
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The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com

TV REVIEW
‘Grandfathered’ 
ages John Stamos

Little potential for 
FOX comedy past 

its premise

By BENJAMIN ROSENSTOCK

Daily Arts Writer

“Grandfathered” might be a sin-

gle-camera comedy on FOX, but it 
has the feel of a CBS sitcom with-
out 
the 

live studio 
audience. 
There 
are broad 
jokes occa-
sionally 
based 
on 

race 
and 

sex, 
with 

simplistic characterizations and 
saccharine 
bonding 
moments. 

Based on the series premiere, it’s 
difficult to tell whether the show 
will go the way of “How I Met Your 
Mother” or “The McCarthys.” 
There are some promising ele-
ments, like the focus on family and 
age, but it’s also hard to see where 
the show can go past its pilot.

John Stamos (“Full House”) 

stars as Jimmy Martino, a restau-
rant owner who discovers that 
his ex-wife Sara (Paget Brewster, 
“Criminal Minds”) had a child 
years ago and never told him. Her 
son, Gerald (Josh Peck, “Drake and 
Josh”), visits Jimmy at work and 
introduces him to his own daugh-
ter. Not only is Jimmy suddenly a 
father, but he’s a grandfather.

The pilot proceeds exactly as 

you’d expect. Jimmy’s world is 
rocked by the sudden realization 
that he has a family. He’s reluctant 

to get involved until he spends 
time with them, and then decid-
ing to dedicate himself to his new 
family. His actions are completely 
predictable — from Jimmy’s initial 
hesitation to his eventual change 
of heart — but it’s cute in a fluffy 
heartwarming sitcom way. There’s 
nothing really complex about it, but 
it’s reliable for an “awww” or two.

Though the show has some 

charming moments, it’s low on 
laughs. The cast attempts nobly 
to succed in remedying this, espe-
cially Brewster, who showed her 
comedic chops on the last season 
of “Community” earlier this year. 
Her delivery is sharp, and her 
lines are reliably funny, like when 
she mentions that she accidentally 
burned her baby with a seatbelt 
and “I swear, he looked right at me 
and gave me the finger.” Stamos, to 
his credit, commits himself entire-
ly to the role of Jimmy, playing his 
character as if Robert Downey Jr.’s 
Tony Stark was suddenly given a 
new family. Stamos is suave, con-
fident and vain, but the nuances 
in the writing just aren’t there 
beyond Jimmy’s predictable heart 
of gold. He’s like Barney Stinson of 
“How I Met Your Mother” without 
any of the fun character quirks.

The rest of the cast is similarly 

underdeveloped. Peck plays Ger-
ald as an overeager man-child, 
thrilled to finally meet his dad and 

receive relationship advice from 
him, but any shades of resentment 
he might have are toned down in 
favor of their immediate bond-
ing. Christina Milian (“Baggage 
Claim”) plays blank slate Van-
essa, the mother of Gerald’s baby 
and the woman he hopes will be 
more than a friend. Kelly Jenrette 
(“Frisky Dingo”) and Ravi Patel 
(“Past Life”) play two employees 
at Jimmy’s restaurant who most-
ly just exist to make jokes about 
Jimmy as a womanizer, though 
there’s a fun aside where Jenrette’s 
character makes friends with Sara.

Most of the jokes in “Grand-

fathered” fail to elicit more than 
a vague smile, and every charac-
ter’s role can be summed up in 
a sentence or less. Arguably the 
most important flaw to address, 
though, is how “Grandfathered” 
can continue past its pilot. Will 
it be possible to sustain a whole 
series of television based on its 
simple premise? Will the show find 
a comfortable groove as a hangout 
comedy like “New Girl,” or will it 
fall back on obvious subplots like 
a re-coupling of Jimmy and Sara? 
With its cast and its heart, “Grand-
fathered” could join the other 
high-concept sitcoms whose audi-
ences have grown over the years. 
The real question is whether view-
ers will be willing to watch past 
the uninspired first episode.

FOX

Where’s the damn Oikos, John?!?!

C+

Grandfathered

Tuesdays at 8 p.m.

FOX
New doc shines light 
on Black Panthers

By SOPHIA KAUFMAN

Daily Arts Writer

“The Black Panthers: Van-

guard 
of 
the 
Revolution,” 

directed by Stanley Nelson, is 
the first fea-
ture-length 
documentary 
to 
tell 
the 

Black Panther 
Party’s story 
from 
begin-

ning to end. It 
is mesmeriz-
ing the entire 
way through, 
not 
only 

painting 
a 

three-dimen-
sional picture 
of the Party, but lending itself to 
comparisons to the present day 
without once explicitly calling 
“today” into focus.

Nelson never inserts his voice 

into “The Black Panthers”; for-
mer and current Panthers speak 
for themselves, as do journal-
ists, FBI informants and police 
officers who were involved. 
Each tells his or her own side of 

a story — stories that are often 
neglected, forgotten or white-
washed in tellings of the Civil 
Rights Movement today. “The 
Black Panthers” deconstructs 
the popular conception of the 
Party 
as 
the 
trigger-happy 

radical alternative to civil dis-
obedience, and it paints a vivid 
portrait of the Party’s charis-
matic leaders.

The documentary also covers 

much more than the timeline 
of events that led to the Party’s 
eventual split, capturing how 
the 
Black 
Panthers 
shocked 

and fascinated the nation. He 
devotes a significant amount of 
time to how the Black Panthers 
represented a different kind 
of pride, a new kind of fashion 
iconography and an obvious 
sex appeal that attracted young 
people. Former Panthers talk 
about how the majority of the 
Party was in their late teens and 
early twenties, and the youthful 
vibrancy radiated when they 
marched down the street. Some 
who joined later on discussed 
how the Panthers represented a 
new kind of image that they could 
aspire to as younger children.

It’s unfortunate that the 

chauvinist sexist aspects of the 
Party, while addressed, only 
take up a few of the 116 minutes 
in the documentary. However, 
the strength and resilience of 
the many black women in the 
Panther Party break through. 
Women describe answering the 
phones with one hand while 
bouncing their crying children 
in the other or asking to carry 
guns along with the men. One 
describes how a woman volun-
teered to be the first person to 
walk out of a house unarmed, 
waving a white flag in the mid-
dle of a bloody shootout with 
police officers.

Overall, 
the 
documentary 

deserved a better ending, artisti-
cally and technically. It ends with 
a “where are they now” epilogue, 
focusing on only some of the Pan-
ther’s more famous leaders, end-
ing the dynamic story on a softer 
note. This concluding tactic also 
fails to add the element of cohe-
sion to tie it all together. While 

this is unfortunate, it doesn’t 
detract too much from the over-
all work.

A documentary is only ever as 

good as its story, and this story is 
electric. It’s impossible to avert 
one’s eyes from the stunning 
black-and-white 
photographs 

and the video footage, grainy as 
they may be.

This story is one of anguish 

and heartbreak, of a collective 
response and rally in the face of 
police brutality and societal pres-
sure to back off and back down. 
It is a story of the passion for 
change found in youth, but also of 
the dangers faced by movements 
that become too big too quickly. 
It is a story of hope and relentless 
refusal to give up the fight for jus-
tice, quiet victories and bloody 
defeats and unapologetic pride. 
In short, it’s a similar story, more 
or less, of the Black Lives Matter 
movement today.

Nelson chooses not to make 

any explicit comparisons to the 
civil rights struggle that occurs 
today, but the comparisons are 
blindingly obvious. They repre-
sent a different kind of pride in 
being black in the face of bigotry 
and hatred, heard loud and clear 
in their chant “Black is Beauti-
ful.” Across social media, trends 
like the #melanin tag and orga-
nized events like #Blackout have 
taken off, especially on photo-
friendly platforms like Twitter 
and Instagram. There are pho-
tographs of the Panthers stand-
ing in the middle of the street 
handing out their newspaper to 
people in cars, subtly highlight-
ing the group’s recognition of 
the media’s impact. This makes 
for another comparison with the 
Black Lives Matter movement, 
which largely stems from social 
media. Perhaps most obviously, 
one of the focuses of the Pan-
thers was police brutality, an 
issue that has become a focal 
one in the movement today. Nel-
son’s unflinching gaze at police 
brutality stripped bare doesn’t 
feel understated or overem-
phasized; it just feels like the 
truth. It feels familiar. This may 
be why the documentary hits 
home — it reflects it.

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