Tyler Perry's Young Dylan

I watched the pilot episode of this show to see what Nickelodeon has been up to lately but I can tell you they do not make shows like they used to.

The characters are dry and boring, there's not much to them. You have the two forgettable parents, the stereotypical sassy black girl, the boy who has an imaginary friend and the grandma, who I think they tried to make funny but isn't . I've forgotten all their names already apart from Dylan (and that's just because he's the titular character). It's clear Nickelodeon doesn't make shows like they used to because this show is so boring and full of dead space. The pace of the show is soo slow, longest half hour of my life. It's literally the characters just in the house, just talking all day and improperly placed/overused laugh tracks mostly because every joke made is unfunny. I'm not one to hate laugh tracks that much but in this show it's borderline obnoxious. The plot is also very mundane. Dylan randomly appears at the (whatever their last name is') house after his mother disappears and it takes them 30 mins to portray that plot point when it literally could've been done in the first 5 mins and the episode could've been over. There's nothing much to this episode other than Young Dylan appearing at the house. The acting is also very sub-par. They actors don't make the show feel real or believable. It seems staged and actors are supposed to make things feel real but they fail at this. The kid with the imaginary friend, has really bad and awkward line delivery and often switches off after giving his lines and sits there with a blank expression on his face. Tyler Perry must've recruited some average Joes when casting for this show because the acting is what you would expect to see from a high school film class.