the audience applauded

Really Surprised!

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

I got into this show while hanging out with my fire chief, handyman brother in-law ('nuff said on hitting a target audience!) He loves it so much he's dvr'd the whole season and it ended up sucking me in too. It's not so much a "how to" show as it's "watch these idiots (meant fondly) do a days work." When I think about reality TV and what it's done to people, seems to me some folks go through life as if they are starring in their own reality show. They look at the world through the screen of their smartphones, disassociated, uninvolved, cynical... symptoms of a post-reality TV mindset. I don't get that strange ugly effect from The Adam Carolla Project. I don't get the same "phoniness." Don't get it twisted, I understand the artifice that's inherent in cutting together this genre (I saw a thing on cable about it) yet the crew is authentically dysfunctional, distracted, dense, lazy and funny as heck. I hope Adam Carolla cops another house. I may renew my cable (or I could wait 'til I'm back with my sister and her husband and watch it one shot!)

If you have ever worked construction this is for you. Every person on the show is someone you have worked with. The guy with the flip flops that insists that he works better with his naked toes exposed. The guy that you can only understand every fifth word he says and cooks a mean BBQ. The guy who smokes around highly flammable chemicals. The guy who explains things he is going to do with such confidence and vigor that you forget that he doesn't know what the hell he is doing. The anal inspection guy who sees fault in every little thing. The public health guy that sees a toxic nightmare in everything and his assistant in the spacesuit who finds nothing. The only thing that is missing is the guy with the truck and pager that shows up, yells at everybody, leaves, and then takes all the credit. Funny stuff. ............Well I guess it was to subtle and wasn't lowbrow enough for the man show crowd, and too much for the trading spaces crowd. Judging from its hasty departure that is. Bummer.