As a retro multi-cam series, The Carmichael Show, debuting Wednesday night, is a rarity in that its humor is almost entirely issues-based. Created by comedian Jerrod Carmichael and filmmaker Nicholas Stoller (Neighbors, Forgetting Sarah Marshall), NBC's latest sitcom follows a fictional version of the Carmichael family, and it seems fairly traditional on the surface.
On the show, Jerrod and his girlfriend Maxine (22 Jump Street's Amber Stevens West) have just moved in together in the former's hometown of Charlotte. However, the young couple has yet to tell Jerrod's abrasive parents Joe and Cynthia (played by David Alan Grier and Loretta Devine, respectively) about their new living situation, for the same reason Jerrod's eccentric brother (LilRel Howery) hasn't told them about his recent divorce. There's a definite Everybody Loves Raymond vibe to the family dynamic, which is almost identical to that show. (Joe and Cynthia's living room even looks like a redress of the Barone household, and the commercial breaks fade in and out with tinkling piano.)
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On the show, Jerrod and his girlfriend Maxine (22 Jump Street's Amber Stevens West) have just moved in together in the former's hometown of Charlotte. However, the young couple has yet to tell Jerrod's abrasive parents Joe and Cynthia (played by David Alan Grier and Loretta Devine, respectively) about their new living situation, for the same reason Jerrod's eccentric brother (LilRel Howery) hasn't told them about his recent divorce. There's a definite Everybody Loves Raymond vibe to the family dynamic, which is almost identical to that show. (Joe and Cynthia's living room even looks like a redress of the Barone household, and the commercial breaks fade in and out with tinkling piano.)
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