Fox's Enlisted (premiered tonight) crackles with
opportunity. It's not a great episode, but it is a good pilot. We get a sense
of who the characters are, what type of adventures they'll have each week, and
a smidgen of emotional weight.
Plus, it's pretty damn funny. Ron Funches and the rest of
the supporting cast are immediately memorable. They avoid any of the obvious
jokes, usually steering away from the first choice and instead looking for the
second or third option. Keith David is tasked with some dramatic heavy lifting,
but also gets a chance to crack a good joke or two.
And in keeping with Fox's new push for diversity, we've got
an actually diverse cast without tripping over itself in self-congratulations.
The show's creator, Kevin Biegel, hails from Scrubs and
Cougar Town. And Enlisted is very much a spiritual successor - wacky hijinks
melded with surprisingly subtle and nuanced character work on the inside.
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