Dreadfully Boring

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

A Masterpiece!

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

I spent the last few weeks watching the first season of The Awesomes. Given the people who created it and the people involved, I expected it to be nothing less than great. Unfortunately, it doesn't quite make it there, but it isn't horrible either. The show never became as focused on one humor style as it needed to be. One minute it would be a clean and family friendly superhero show with middle of the road humor and then the next minute it would veer into a more edgy scenario or joke and change the mood completely. This type of thing can work, but I don't feel it did for The Awesomes. All in all, I found myself wanting to like it more than I actually did, and that's a shame. Maybe if a season two appears they will become a little more focused the overall humor style and it could become something more akin to wonderful Venture Brothers instead of a slightly edgy Hanna-Barbera cartoon.

Tried to watch "The Awesomes"... I really did but... meh. It's clearly a labour of love from Seth Myers, but that's about all I can say for it. It suffers one of the fatal flaws that Alphas did for me; for a show about Superheroes, there is surprisingly little superheroing or action about it.It's a lot of introspective self-indulgent whining by a c list superhero squad thrust into the spotlight, and it really doesn't even do that well. It lacks the pop-culture cache of Futurama, the edge of Watchmen, the genre-awareness of Incredibles, or the whit of Kim Possible, even though it is clearly trying for all of those marks. The plotting takes a lot of predictable tropes, and sadly it can't execute them well enough to make them interesting, or poorly enough to make them camp.The animation is stilted and low quality. In an era when even an amateur can turn in Caanes and Sundance quality work from a moderately powerful PC; it's flat, jerky, and the designs and color choices are uninspired. In the first 22 minute installment, the only things visually that caught my eye were a hairnet and a biplane. Not a character, a costume, a setting, or even a gadget, but a plot gag and one-note throw-away joke. It feels like a three minute SNL animated bit stretched to 22 minutes, which makes it painful on some level....in the end, this show falls into that deadly zone of mediocrity; it's not aggressively bad enough to be talked down, but it's not good enough to be talked up either. In short, its not surprising no one is talking about this show at all. Hulu's limited budget could have been far better spent elsewhere.Sorry Seth, but stick to observational humor, because clearly superheroes is not your forte.

Huge SNL fan here, and follower of Mr Meyers, Paula Pell, and their entertaining tweets. You got to give Seth points for taking his comic book love plus our nostalgia for Saturday morning cartoons and cranking it up with clever dialogue and a well rounded cast of characters. C'mon, how many other supergroups have this many female fighters or a hero with mommy issues? Add in some questionable super powers, old lady love, brains, and brawn.... and you get The Awesomes. Even the product placement works --- Kudos to the sponsor for playing along with the gag. Bonus - You'll have fun guessing all the familiar voices. Thank goodness for the 'pause' button! Add in the Ambiguosly Gay Duo, and I'd give it a 10.

I have to admit, I'm unsure who the target audience is, and maybe I'm exactly who it was made for, but I think this is great. As a longtime superhero fan, and a gamer (and admittedly a superhero RPG player), I think they nailed the misfit Hero concept pretty comfortably. I agree with the other review (there's only one at the time I'm writing this) that it could be edgier, and it could probably be made to appeal more broadly (how many viewers have ever participated in a tabletop Superhero themed RPG, really?), but unless it's trying to be, or compete with Family Guy, it's probably OK with what it is.I can't see the show being around long, which is the biggest reason I didn't give it a higher review. I think it would be a bigger hit if, honestly, there were less focus on Prock, and a decent bit more about each member of the team, and if they could isolate a target audience. That's why Drawn Together worked, despite being seen as crude, sick, stupid, and random (in my unabbreviated opinion). They knew who their audience was.I hope the writers read this. I would love to see The Awesomes stick around.