But this was so bad and full of cringe. Viewers should be warned. Every headline below this review with a 1 or 2 star best represents this show. I think TBS was looking for a financial loss.
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beyond_eibon9 April 2021
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logabimom-711905 April 2021I saw the pilot for this show over a year ago and it was just terrible. Yes, it had a few funny moments but, I just couldn't get over the main character being a woman my age playing a teen boy. Just seemed odd. Why not cast an actual kid? It feels like an SNL skit that when on for too long. Either way I wish them success and hope they find their viewers. Good luck!!
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So confused! I wanted to love it. It was weird and quirky but in all the wrong ways. Instead of laughing the punch line makes me cringe. I think it small clips this could be a great bit! Bet it was a SNL skit at one point. But this falls about 10 feet off. I give you a three because I like the attempt and it was still mild entertaining in the car crash sense,
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It's brazenly apparent that the writer has never in her life, ever spoken to an adolescent boy. It's like an alien looked at what women say on Twitter about how annoying men are and wrote a show about it.
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kbpstp7 April 2021Absolutely awful, the previews were trash to begin with. I don't understand why a woman in her 40s would want to play this character to begin with. It's not funny at alll. I don't see it lasting long at all. It's cringe X1000. I hope to god no one tried this hard to fit it. It's obnoxious.
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I've always like Nassim Pedrad on her work on SNL as well as her work on the criminal cancellation of people Of earth on TBS, but this show is just terrible and this is coming from someone who heard about it 5-6 months ago and was counting the days to the pilot aired positive it would be the best, smartest show this Summer. I feel like a fool that I got roped into even watching one second of this. Nassim is so Much better than this, please recognize a sinking failure when you see one cause I feel like I deserve a medal just finishing the pilot.
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abdullahkjones8 April 2021Worst, most cringe jokes I've ever seen in my entire life... So stupid, I feel as if I have been physically hurt by what I watched. This makes The Terminator look like a comedy.
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1. WTF is this monstrosity?
2. When the woke culture became a parody of itself?
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krueger-1521611 April 2021I created an account just to say how terrible this show is. Whoever created it has clearly never met an actual teenage boy in real life ever and I can't believe it wasn't cancelled immediately after airing the pilot.
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luisesu21 January 2024If you read most of the negative reviews, it's obvious (many even say) they barely watched a few minutes and they just don't get it. The show attitude a lot of heart and is very funny. The cast is all terrific. Yes there are many "cringey" parts and the main character is a completely self-centered and weird character but it's kind of the whole point of the show. The show brilliantly uses this to examine various aspects of life and make both subtle and in your face commentaries about many different subjects. I highly recommend giving it a shot for yourself and not just judging by the first few minutes or even first episode.
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azteksouljah13 April 2021All that hype for weeks and weeks and it totally disappointed. Not worth watching. Absolutely not funny at all, very unrelatable and totally predictable. I honestly don't see this show going past a first season. If it does, I would be shocked.
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loco_ledge23 April 2021I watched the first 3 episodes and its a funny show. I laughed out loud on numerous occasions. I guess everyone is different. I bet there are others who enjoy it too.
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j_slovak26 April 2021In the same awkward vein as the office, chad is a constant train wreck you can't look away from with a lot of laugh out loud moments. Not your traditional US comedy, very different flavour, perhaps that's why the humour isn't landing with everybody, but if you liked flight of the conchords, or the office, give this a go.
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paschkejm2 April 2021Even the previews for the show are annoying. Might have worked as a sketch on SNL, but an entire series? Skip.
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sarahakers-566428 April 2021I don't care that it's a 40-year-old woman playing a 14-year-old boy. That's just a stunt. What bothers me is the lack of any comedic value. There's no chance of developing any empathy for the Chad character. He has none of the redeeming qualities of the Big Bang nerds.
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sullir524 March 2021How stupid does one have to be to have thought this was a good idea! Bad premise, bad execution, just plain BAD!
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Thought I'd give this new series a try, recording it after a basketball game Saturday night, March 27.
It appears to deal with a high school freshman with the school year beginning the day after he gets his braces off. The opening scene has Chad saying some of the nastiest things to his orthodontist, in public, in front of his mother, who does nothing to stop him, or to apologize to the doctor, who does nothing more than say "I'm sorry to hear that." So right away we have a crude, rude, 14-15 year old and two adults who don't know how to behave like adults.
At home, Chad is needlessly rude to his sister, and rather rude to his mother, complaining that she's dating a Muslim. (Of course she's divorced, except for Last Man Standing, what sitcom characters are happily married?) The surprise to me was when "Mom" says, "You do realize we're Muslim, don't you?" What this line does is make Chad's complaint 100% unbelievable. Whatever his reasoning was, he would not complain the way he did about who she is dating without explaining his complaint right away. If he's got two working brain cells, he would know that complaining that she's dating someone of the family's faith makes no sense on the surface.
Somehow I persevered. Chad is bossy with his buddy as they await the school bus-which is so short it's like a toy bus. When they arrive at school, he speaks briefly with a student riding an Amigo, then he rudely steps right between her and her steering wheel to head toward the building. Once inside, Chad goes up to various people he doesn't know and interrupts their conversation, as if he thinks they are happy to have a stranger interrupt them saying stupid things of no interest.
He tells two girls "I had sex this past summer." Seriously, this guy is so stupid as to think they want to hear that from a stranger. Later, in the gym, even though it is supposed to be the first day of the school year, he and his buddy are aimlessly shooting a basketball toward the rim while discussing Chad's bizarre choice of conversation topics.
Chad is upset because his buddy is pointing out that Chad has never even kissed a girl. Chad thinks the girls will respect him because of his sex story. His buddy seems barely able to hit the rim from about 10 feet away. Chad shoots worse than the average kindergartner. I believe we saw him shoot the ball four times from that short distance and the closest one fell harmlessly to the floor about six feet short of the rim. His last shot was not only short, but it was at least 7 feet wide of the basket.
There was nobody else in their area. I never saw a gym class where two boys had so much time to kill all by themselves. Eventually someone blew a whistle and they began a drill with little cones that everyone was supposed to go through-zig-zagging, while dribbling. Chad is so unbelievably uncoordinated that he bounced the ball with both hands once and it bounced away from him, then he proceeded to just plow straight ahead knocking over every cone in the line.
Next Chad is in a classroom with tons of time to talk to some guys about his sex escapades. Nobody else was depicted coming into the room, unlike any real high school where students only have 3-5 minutes between classes. Just nothing about this show seemed like the real world. He proceeds to give all the juicy details of this made up story using semi-crude language, and the scene goes on for...
Well, I don't know. It went on for at least a minute before I said, "Check please," which is my way of announcing (to myself, the cats, someone) that I'm done with this program.
Perhaps there are some 14-year-olds who want to hear a guy describe an imaginary sex adventure. But I think any 14-year-old who tuned in to this-it aired after midnight-probably laughed about how stupid and un-likable Chad is that he gave up before it got to this point. I really don't see how older people would care to watch this show at all. If you rule out all the people 15 or older, and certainly few people under the age of 12 would find this show the least bit interesting, you are left with a very small target audience.
Maybe viewers are supposed to enjoy seeing this horribly nasty kid get humiliated and ridiculed and whatever every week. That would seem to be the only reason you'd care to watch. There certainly is no reason to want anything good to happen to this teen. If this series becomes a hit-assuming the rest of the scripts are similar to the one I saw part of-it will be amazing. I feel I've earned myself at least three fewer hours in purgatory by putting up with this garbage as long as I did. IMDB won't let me score it less than one, so that's what it gets.
I see 51 of the first 67 reviewers rated this show a one. I am not alone. Average score from 377 people is 1.9-that probably is an IMDB record low. -
azjeff_horwitz15 April 2021I started watching Chad because I thought it was about a trans man. It's a woman playing a boy that doesn't know anything about boys.
Chad's best friend, Peter, is a much better and well-played character.
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beachy-3843127 May 2021I love Nashim Padrad, but this show is horrible! I have to make this longer. Horrible, Horrible, Horrible.
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wmpmyshu8 April 2021I can't believe they have a girl playing a boy's part. The show is terrible. I watched one episode & couldn't believe how bad it is. Needs to be revamped & recast otherwise it will not survive.
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niquemarr22 January 2024This show is hilarious and Chad is one of those characters that is a train wreck of cringe. I feel like people who hate this show are missing the point. Chad is a self centered annoying little jerk and it's fun to watch him fail. He is played so well by Nasim because she created this character, he's not supposed to be likable (in the general sense of the word), he's not supposed to be a normal kid. He's the quintessential clueless yet self righteous little punk imagined up by a comedian and executed perfectly. He creates all his own problems and we get to watch him struggle his way through them and it's fun to watch. It's so funny and not at all serious. Season 1 was good and season 2 has not disappointed, my husband and I love it and would watch a 3rd season if they made it. Unfortunately the networks can't keep an actually funny show going for more than 2 seasons any more *RIP Detroiters*
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cjwlowry6 April 2021I literally made a account just to write this review cancel this BS. Every time the preview comes on I cringe because it's a grown woman playing a little boy. Not only that, the acting is horrible! Who green-lighted this?
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petercsak-54-93704414 April 2021This show was created, written and produced by Nasim Pedrad who also plays the main character. A woman playing a pubescent boy who is just coming of age is a whole new take on the genre and my wife and I both found this to be very funny. We are really looking forward to the next episode.
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Jonas202125 April 2021I've seen three episodes. Like it or not, the current 2.3 rating is incomprehensible. The worst movies of all time usually get at least a 4. Catwoman has a 3.4 rating; 50 Shades of Grey has a 4.1.
Chad is at times laugh-out-loud funny. The first sequence in the first episode was hysterical. The interchange between Chad and his sister immediately thereafter was priceless. In a way, this is similar to PEN15, a la Erskine and Konkle, though if I understand the history, Nasim Pedrad shuttled this concept around for several years before it finally made it to the screen. Concept aside, because PEN15 beat Chad to the punch, perhaps Chad isn't ground-breaking. There is a risk that Chad could never evolve beyond what it already is - an awkward, cringey, adolescent boy who seeks attention, popularity, and a role model. If there isn't growth in the character, then maybe Chad will get old and tired before it gets out of the gate. After three episodes, however, that cannot be ascertained. From where does all of this judgment emanate? I don't get it.
Nasim Pedrad does a great job. She is a beautiful woman who transforms into an unattractive, myopic, and self-centered adolescent. Is this anti-Muslim hate - because both Pedrad and the character she portrays are Iranian? Is this because she's a woman? I have no idea. All I can say is that a 2.3 rating is objectively difficult to justify.
If the narrative arc grows to support more than just a concept, I'd be happy to see multiple seasons, though after three episodes, that remains to be seen. Still, I'm looking forward to more episodes and more laughing-out-loud. It's funny. Pedrad is great.
I guess Taylor Swift was right: the haters gonna hate, hate, hate. Shake it off. Give it a look. -
Scringy4 April 2021I so desperately want this show to fail that I'd love to give it only 3 episodes...but TBS has spent so much time assaulting us by airing a million soul crushingly unfunny spots that I fear season 1 may go the distance. The other spot-on reviews here say it all so I won't repeat except for how in the world ANYONE (actors, writers, producers, screeners, family members of these people) found it even remotely funny, worthwhile or believable to have a 40 year old woman play a 14 year old boy is simply beyond me. Just awful!