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- The Big Show Show lightly touches on conflict and challenge, but it's too saccharine to do anything more with it than provide traditional sitcom beats. That's not an awful thing, it just is what it is. It's a show that won't drive parents crazy, though it's also not one of the truly great family shows to binge.
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Apr 9, 2020 · Wrestling family sitcom is a little rough but mostly sweet. Read Common Sense Media's The Big Show Show review, age rating, and parents guide.
- Melissa Camacho
Sitcom. Good. Great Family Viewing. Juliet Donenfeld, as J.J. Good range Of Storylines. Bad. When Big Show retires from the WWE he must settle into his new life as a stay-at-home Dad with three daughters. The Big Show Show is a fun family sitcom.
The Big Show Show: Created by Jason Berger, Josh Bycel. With Paul Wight, Allison Munn, Reylynn Caster, Lily Brooks O'Briant. When Big Show's teenage daughter comes to live with him and his wife and two other daughters, he quickly becomes outnumbered and outsmarted.
- (2.8K)
- 2020-04-06
- Comedy, Family
- 27
- Large and...in charge?
- The Big Show Show: Season 1 Gallery
- Verdict
By Matt Fowler
Updated: Apr 4, 2020 5:50 pm
Posted: Apr 3, 2020 6:30 pm
"Welllll...it's a sit-com!"
Despite many folks online, about a month back, thinking Netflix's The Big Show Show was some type of goof/prank, it's very very real. Quasi-retired WWE Superstar Paul "Big Show" Wight is the lead of a new family comedy where he plays a fictionalized version of himself as an ex-wrestler attempting to start the second (or third) act of his life as stay-at-home dad and husband in Tampa.
Naturally, this project has the potential to be either wholly terrible or fully great. The truth, overall, lies somewhere in between as Big Show proves himself to be an amiable, glowing, towering "family man" capable of carrying multi-cam sitcom shenanigans. Of course, the caveat here is that The Big Show Show is a broad and earnest family comedy. It's not meant to be shrewd or biting; it's warm and cuddly - something parents can watch with their young kids and not utterly despise.
Younger-skewing sitcoms can be done well, obviously. Whether we're talking '80s greats like Different Strokes or Growing Pains or more recent basic cable fare like Nick's iCarly and Victorious, or Disney's Wizards of Waverly Place or Suite Life of Zack & Cody. The Big Show Show is nestled somewhere in the middle, as '80s comedies tended to traipse into the darkened theater of "Very Special Episodes" where they'd tackle drugs, sexual assault, and even serial killers (yes, I'm looking at you, Punky Brewster). Latter day teen/family shows got serious too, but not like they did decades ago.
The Big Show Show lightly touches on conflict and challenge, but it's too saccharine to do anything more with it than provide traditional sitcom beats. That's not an awful thing, it just is what it is. It's a show that won't drive parents crazy, though it's also not one of the truly great family shows to binge.
Also, keep in mind that wrestling fans (like myself) will engage with this in a different way and curiosity will drive a ton of viewing. And then those who only know Big Show as a cursory pop-culture character might still get a kick out of the fact that - well - the man's huge. Yes, there's a wee bit of joy to be derived from seeing someone so big interact with others who only come up to his navel. It's just a dichotomy that works, and helps to separate this particular show from the rabble.
Story-wise, Show (he's referred to as "Show" by his family on the series, as he is in real life) struggles to come to terms with his retirement from WWE while his strong-willed teen daughter, Lola (Reylynn Caster), from a previous marriage, and colder climate, comes to live with him and his wife and kids in Tampa. While Show bounces around from autograph gigs to attempts at a new career, Lola tries to adjust to her new setting and sisters. Show's other two daughters, dramatic Mandy (Lily Brooks O'Briant) and scheming J.J. (Juliet Donenfeld), don't work quite as well as the Show/Lola relationship because they're both bigger and wackier sitcom personalities. They're good, but their heightened nature is more meant to color the Lola arc.
Show's wife, Cassy (Allison Munn), comes very close to becoming a typical "mom of four when you count the husband as an extra child" type, but The Big Show Show wisely gives her some foibles and fumbles of her own so that she's not the cliched bad cop. In fact, the most mature character on the show is Lola, which makes sense given her gently-broken home circumstances.
I'd be remiss if I didn't mention Jaleel White, Family Matters' esteemed Urkel, in a recurring role here as Terrence Malick (a nod to...the director?), Show's perky pal and local health club owner. White's a fun partner in crime for a few of Show's off-book antics and he's giving an admirably anti-Urkel performance as a fast-talking fool. In a strange way, even given Show's mammoth size, White lends some weight to the proceedings.
The Big Show Show is designed to entertain younger viewers, or families seeking a safe and sweet series to enjoy together. With that in mind it succeeds, while also delivering an interesting left-field vehicle for a uniquely charismatic performer. It's not much more than a tolerable watch for grownups - but sometimes not being terrible is enough wh...
Apr 7, 2020 · The Big Show Show. Powered by Reelgood. Netflix and WWE Studios have been doing deals lately, and The Big Show Show is the first of those deals to see the light of day (the film The...
Big show = good show. 22 out of 29 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. Permalink. 6/10. Nice and innocent family sitcom, tippz 7 April 2020. Nice and innocent family and kids tv show, The acting is not that bad, and it is like your standerd nickelodeon TV sitcom but on Netflix, watch it if you are feeling bored.
Produced by WWE Studios, it premiered on Netflix with eight episodes on April 6, 2020. The series stars professional wrestling veteran and titular character, the Big Show, with Allison Munn, Reylynn Caster, Lily Brooks O'Briant, and Juliet Donenfeld playing a fictionalized version of his family.
