The Life And Times Of Tim: Angry Unpaid Hooker / Rodney’s Bachelor Party [series premiere]
By fred | September 29, 2008
(S01E01) I mentioned it yesterday already, last night quite late (11.00) on HBO premiered a new animated series, The Life And Times Of Tim, and as anyone can probably guess it’s about a guy named Tim. Tim is just a young guy like many others, and he always tried to be nice and do the right thing, but some reason it seems that the entire world conspires against him.
The show comes in quite late for a reason, it’s probably not suited for children. Visually I don’t think there’s any problem, it’s quite simplistic in its realization, almost looks as if it was drawn using Paint, and the animation would make the pilot episode of South Park look like the greatest thing ever, but – much like Comedy Central’s show – the power of this new series comes from its writing.
It’s very well written, it doesn’t get too crazy and stays very simple in the situation that Tim goes through, even though he does, in the first episode, get caught by his girlfriend and their parents (whom he’s meeting for the first time) with a prostitute, and then there’s mention of some backdoor action…
Everyone stays surprisingly calm during the whole thing, and because Tim doesn’t have enough money to pay her, he’ll just wait for a visit form her pimp and give him his own clothes. So, yeah, maybe not exactly the most realistic of reactions from people, on the other hand the situations and behaviors of the characters of Worst Week for instance where about the same if not more “unexpected”.
But the quality of the show definitely comes from the writing and the dialogs, which are just funny, hilarious even. It’s just fun to see everyone trying to come up with a made-up story for Tim and it always end up with him being humiliated in some way, because that just “fits” him. And when soon everyone at his workplace thinks he was rapped by a homeless guy, how could you not laugh when the Human Resources lady is making fun of him, joking about how he needs to talk about it before he can “put it behind him”.
Based on the two stories we got to see here, the show isn’t as crazy as South Park and more realistic than Family Guy or even The Simpsons, drawings and animation are very simplistic, but the writing is really good, dialogs are very funny and if it seems that the world really does conspire against poor Tim, there’s nothing more fun than to be a witness of it.
I was disappointed by the season premiere of Family Guy, but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t a good animated show to make me laugh last night. The Life And Times Of Tim sounds a really fun show, and I can’t wait to see what the world has next in store for Tim…
Just because I can’t resist, here’s another little clip, and if you haven’t watched it you really should give it a try :
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Shows: The Life And Times Of Tim
