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'Kevin Can F**k Himself' flips between broad sitcom parody and dark psychodrama in depicting TV's most unhappily long-suffering TV wife ('Schitt's Creek's Annie Murphy).
In AMC’s “Kevin Can F**k Himself,” creator Valerie Armstrong and Murphy show what happens when TV comedy wives have their own messy lives.
So far Marvel’s efforts for Disney+ have stretched from the genre-bending, clever “WandaVision” to the excessively violent, more routine “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.” The streaming service’s latest series, the six-episode “Loki,” falls somewhere in between, but leans closer to the creative freshness of “WandaVision” in the first two
The American sitcom has been built on the shoulders of childish husbands and accommodating wives. Some series use those husbands to make points about gender dynamics, changing social mores, and heteronormativity (the classic “All in the Family,” the risqué “Married … with Children”), while others insist upon the idea—and expect us to do so, too—that straight white men can be immature, forgetful, and chauvinistic. How supportive, thoughtful, or considerate were Ray on “Everybody Loves Raymond,” Doug on “The King of Queens,” or Tim on “Home Improvement”? And if they w...
In a New AMC Satire, a Sitcom Wife Gets the Last Laugh Annie Murphy stars in a black comedy that spoofs corny family sitcoms while revealing the darkness behind the bright lights and bad jokes. In “Kevin Can ____ Himself,” Annie Murphy plays the latest in a long line of knockout sitcom wives married to schlubby guys. But this time, she’s had enough.Credit...Luis Mora for The New York Times June 9, 2021Updated 1:06 p.m. ET Shortly after the 2016 presidential election, Valerie Armstrong experienced what she described as “a feminist fit of rage.” So she put that rage into a comedy pilo...