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"Every week, Christopher Titus introduces his namesake Fox sitcom by clicking on a bare light bulb to show us the all-American mug of an ex-choir boy gone postal - a cross between Shakespeare's Puck and the one from The Real World. Prowling a room whose only furniture looks suspiciously like a vintage electric chair, he takes a lifer's unhinged pride in knowing all the steps to the jailhouse rock as he vents about Everyguys's most unresolvable obsession: Dad.
Ripsnortingly played by Stacy Keach, Titus's own father is a howlingly funny caricature of benighted macho ebullience-a barrel-chested, outrageously self-delighted womanizer and lush who's a master at making Titus and his slower-witted brother, Dave (Zack Ward), feel inadequate by yardsticks they never even wanted to measure up to...yet one reason for casting this old Method mountebank was inspired is that Keach isn't slumming as much as he probably thinks. Under the burlesque surface, the premise isn't just Death of a Salesman retold from the sons' points of view and lacking the happy ending Arthur Miller's title promised; what with that batty mother in the wings, it's practically Long Day's Journey Into Night put through a trash compactor and turned into deliriously stoopid farce."
-Tom Carson, Esquire Magazine, |
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