EPISODE
Mulaney - Season 1
The comedy series reveals the story of John, an ambitious young man trying to fulfill his dream in the world of comedy. John is a young man trying to take his career to the next level. John lives next to friends and mentors who raise and sometimes block him, but he continues to do my ambitious comedy.
12 July 1952, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
24 July 1973, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
2 October 1954, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
28 July 1975, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
22 December 1928, East Orange, New Jersey, USA
9 July 1956, Concord, California, USA
31 July 1966, Mt. Clemens, Michigan, USA
29 October 1975, Seoul, South Korea
24 January 1981, Lakeside, California, USA
5 November 1958, Staten Island, New York, USA
16 September 1964, Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA
July 20, 1984 in Belgrade, Serbia
28 August 1969, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
October 01, 2014
Mulaney's standup work and his Saturday Night Live resume reveal that he's a very funny guy, but this contrived, airless comedy is not a good vehicle for him.
October 03, 2014
Mulaney... finds Mulaney surrounded by quirk, some of it good - Martin Short as his boss, Nasim Pedrad as one of his roommates - and some of it just annoying.
October 02, 2014
This one is excruciatingly unfunny, despite the good-natured young talent at the center.
October 03, 2014
Think it's easy to clone Seinfeld? Fox's dreadful, embarrassing misfire Mulaney proves otherwise.
September 22, 2014
John Mulaney is a great standup comic and former writer for Saturday Night Live. But he's created a humorless sitcom that feels like a bad Seinfeld ripoff.
October 02, 2014
There are jokes that don't just hit the floor, they feel almost like a sitcom within a funnier film designed to parody bad TV writing.
October 02, 2014
In practice, Mulaney is fairly dire. It's an unfortunate reminder that the multi-cam format is an unforgiving beast that can swallow you whole if you aren't constantly feeding it jokes.
October 02, 2014
So the show seems either a subversive deconstruction of the laugh-track sitcom blueprint or a stupefying misfire built around the blandest star ever.
September 17, 2014
The series soars when it takes a broader view by pitting the self-promoting narcissism of the roommates against the smug windbaggery of the older generation. And it is, slowly but surely, finding its legs.
October 03, 2014
Mulaney is a comic, but he is not an actor. He could in theory grow into one, but he seems very, very ill-suited to it in the early episodes, awkward and stiff reading lines instead of talking to an audience. This is not his wheelhouse.
