The Really Loud House Nickelodeon
The Loud House has gotten a live-action spinoff series, after the success of "A Loud House Christmas" which I did like. This is a new series called "The Really Loud House" which takes the fun of the animated series that makes it a live-action half our sitcom. The Christmas did a good job with the casting and making the sets look like the house and town we see in the series. Let's see how it works (with one episode).
Episode 1: The Macho Man With the Plan
Lincoln wants to get a special Macho Man badge during a special midnight marathon. The presentation does have a comfy season 1 vibe to it, where Lincoln talks to the audience to explain things. (Also this show is not filmed in front of a live studio audience or have a laugh track at all ) Now of course things seem to be going alright as Lincoln has everything planned out and ready to go. He finds his father laying on the floor in the kitchen (not dead) and his father is having a half birthday. Lynn Sr. got scared by Lucy that night and had been laid on the floor since then. When she scares him again, he asks why she was up that night and finds out Lucy had been up 53 hours straight, he's bothered. He calls a meeting and says that the family now can't be up past midnight.
But wait Lincoln needs to stay up past midnight for the code! Uh oh! He talks to his sisters to convince them to take their father to 1/2 birthday dinner so he can watch the thing, but they want him to help him with their stuff. I do like how this has Lincoln and sisters working together on his goal instead a more classic hallmark of Lincoln wanting to do something and trying to guide the sisters into something else and somehow having it where the sisters find out and stop Lincoln and stuff happening. I like this idea slightly better. Lincoln agrees and brings in Clyde to help, and the sisters agree to his plan.
Lola needs her wigs brushed, Leni needs help with a lie-detector test, Luan needs comedy help (we know), Lori needs help with a Bobby anniversary text, Lynn needs help with motivational speech for her hockey game, Lisa needs Todd, the robot to have a different name for a competition. Lana needs to help her guinea pig to break a record, and have a witness. Luna with music stuff, in this case some cow bell (someone wanted to make a joke). Lucy needs help staying up, which started all of this in the first place. Finally, Lincoln thinks of a way to get things done, have Lucy help Luna, Leni help Luan, Lynn and Lana, Clyde helps Lori, Lincoln help Lola and things go well.
It's nice that this works out well and doesn't turn into something else, and it's working for the plot. Lincoln is also going to help Lisa with her problem. I like that Lola points out a fault with his plan: how will be able to stay home when everyone else is at the party? The father would notice. It's nice little touch have a sister help in the scheme and notice a flaw in a plan he has to work on, before doing it. These are some nice writing touches. It does end up going sitcom plot idea with Lincoln deciding to use Todd to fill in for him at the restaurant. This works for now.
Lincoln and Clyde are the Loud House and waiting for the start. They also check on what Todd is doing to make sure things will go fine. (I wonder when things will go wrong) I'm glad that the parents can't tell the robot with the Lincoln face is that. Anyway, something goes wrong and the sisters mention that it's Todd and why they are there that evening. Lincoln sees , through the live feed (which didn't die) and he see his father explain that growing up his birthdays were hard because there was more popular kid with the same birthday, so his mom thought up a 1/2 birthday to help and it worked. (Could have just celebrated---ow ow ow) Lincoln feels the emotion and decides that he will not try for the badge.
At the end, Lincoln decided to make a surprise party for his dad, and we get a nice moment at the end.
This was a nice outing. The pacing of the episode was nice, there was laid back, but not to slow pace. It was to see how the longer time span works for a Loud House story. It has the energy of the Christmas movie which I liked. The characters so far have felt like the show's characters, but not too much a mock up where it's just like animated characters in the show, but live-action they added their own spark. The other thing that worked for this and the movie too, was they did have slapstick and goofy, but didn't try to make it cartoon-ish. There are things you can do in cartoons as a medium that can't be done with actual humans and physical stuff. That CGI snake though. I like they understood their limitations and went with it.
The writing was nicely done, and glad it was Lincoln wants to do something and the sisters help with that goal, as long as helps them with their stuff, it was a nice touch. I like how it added some of its own lore with the half birthday for Lynn Sr. It was a pleasant episode and well done. I give it 9/10.
That's it for now, tune in next time when... we get attacked by a CGI snake ,but it can't hurt us because it's not real.
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