Committed Review

Feminism... is a cult. No really, it's a freakin' cult presided over by extreme individuals who want nothing more than to eradicate every male in existence. They can torment you and practically destroy your life with the drop of a dime. Now I know what you're thinking, why am I starting off with this controversial statement? It kinda ties in to the show I'm going to talk about. Today/tonight/whenever it is wherever you are, I'm going to discuss a show that's so soulless, so agenda based that it wouldn't look out of place in the PC-riddled shit-hole that is our country.

Before I get into the show itself, I'd like to provide some backstory as I always do, such as the fact that the show I'm going to talk about is based on a comic strip. Between 1999 and 2001, shows based on comic strips were the most prevalent (referring to prime time animated shows that is). 1999 gave us Dilbert, a humorous representation of the world of business, which ultimately failed due to it being on UPN. 2000 brought us Baby Blues, an ok show with a unique sense of humor which also failed because it was on The WB, but was saved by Adult Swim (who were also kind enough to save Mission Hill and The Oblongs.) The following show would be the last of the trio, and hence the worst of them all. Committed.

Committed was a comic strip that, akin to many ongoing strips, began in 1994, only to end in 2008. It was created by Michael Fry, who was also behind Over the Hedge, and you don't need to tell me that it was a hell of a lot better than the otherwise single-chuckle (though not often) worthy original strip. I would discuss the strip, but the show hardly differs from it so I'll save those descriptions for later. Out of every show-worthy comic strips (I would've loved to see a show based on The Lockhonrns, Heart of the City or Zits, heck Ziggy's perfect for a cheesy holiday special), the powers that be decided, "Hey, we lost two shows that tried to branch out from their established plot-lines, let's see where consistency will get us!" And just like that, Committed became a television series and was released to the public. In Canada.

You heard right, Committed, an American property, became a show in Canada. Though that doesn't mean it didn't make it to American soil, it just wasn't able to get onto a network that everyone watched. It wasn't 2000 anymore so it couldn't get on NBC (Sammy and God, The Devil and Bob), ABC realized that people may actually enjoy animated sitcoms (ala The Critic) so they were out of the question, CBS was adamant against airing animated sitcoms in the current age (or current back in the early 2000s) and I don't know why FOX didn't want it. Not even The WB or UPN took it for a short run.

So where did it wind up? ... WE: Women's Entertainment. I should be more surprised that an animated sitcom aired on an unconventional network, but research has made those qualms obsolete. Duckman aired on USA Network, and the only times they aired cartoons were on their morning cartoon block. Free for All aired on Showtime in 2003, and their website previously hosed Queer Duck. The Life & Times of Tim aired on HBO and was the closest to a full-on animated comedy series. So animated shows airing on the least likely networks isn't that surprising to me anymore.

Now you're probably wondering, how did Committed Wind up on Women's Entertainment? Because it's a perfect representation of how twisted feminism has become. Let's finally get into the show.

The strip, and by extension the entire show, focused on the Larsen family, consisting of Joe (aka Satan to the wymyns), the obligatory baby Zelda, the eldest Tracy and the lead in the show, Liz God Miamoto Larsen. How different is the show to the comic? Aside from a few cosmetic changes and additional characters (sometimes a little polish is necessary), there's... one major difference. Zelda has been converted into the middle child/obligatory tomboy), Tracy is now the eldest girly-girl character and the baby is replaced by Nicholas (and just to further rub salt in the wound, Nicholas is the most dysfunctional of them all. If he were a girl he'd probably overpower Stewie Griffin).

To the show's credit, Liz doesn't receive the most focus as you'd expect, every character gets a fair shake. But no matter what, a trend is made apparent. No matter what, Joe is always in the wrong, and we have to sympathize with the PMSing Liz (she's a woman so she's always right no matter what and if you think she's not the Vigrin Mary of animated wives you're a misogynistic sexist pig who should get your ass kicked). I've yet to see a single male in the show that isn't an asshole, lazy or anything else of the sort. I'd rather join the WBC than follow along in the cult of reverse sexism. The show intends (or at least intended at one point) to follow the framework of a couple struggling with parenthood, but it devolves within seconds, forgets its priorities and seems to be doing everything it could to stay on its American network in the hopes people would remember it. In fact, the times where they do focus on that is executed in a fashion so discomforting that I wouldn't be surprised that they murder their kids at one point (though if Joe did it, Liz would probably be pissed because a cis male did the killing)

You may fault me for giving a near half-assed review of the show, but if you watch just one episode, you could see just how soulless this show is. Nowadays, people'd probably call the networks sexist if they cancelled it, call the critics misogynists because they gave negative reviews and heck, if this came out recently, don't be surprised if Liz dyed her hair red.

Here's an episode of the show so you could get an idea on what I'm talking about. Watch it and see how well it fits with my bigoted review.

Even the worst modern animated adult programs had some kind of charm. Committed has no such charm, and it wouldn't look out of place in the feministic world we live in today.