I've often thought about the life of a sit com wife, always beautiful, always married to a buffoon, and never understood really why she was still there, putting up with him and his dumb friends doing the same dumb stuff week after week. Peggy Bundy was a fox! Why did she have to fight so hard for Al to give her some lovin? Lois was a wealthy beautiful socialite, what the heck did she see in Peter? I never thought I'd know. But this show peels back that curtain and gives you a glimpse into this sit com wife's life, and you see it's not so easy. I've enjoyed some of those old sit coms like everyone else, but I also always felt they were flawed, so I am enjoying this attempt to dissect a trope that is so ingrained in our culture. Stylistically, it's well done. The stark contrasts of "reality" vs the well lit, campy sit com world is artsy without being too overt, so it comes off almost seamlessly. At its core, it's a tv show about a tv show. I watched it for the content and am ignoring the political complaints of "wokeness" and "ruining the past", as I simply don't agree. But if Homer Simpson, Jackie Gleason, Kevin James, Al Bundy, are your HEROS mind you, I doubt you will enjoy this at all.

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