Tyler Perry's Young Dylan

My 9 year old son watched 5 minutes of this show and said " this is not good, I am going to bed." My son liked some pretty mediocre Nickelodeon shows, but this show is unwatchable. Think "Fresh Prince," but with weaker scripts. It is clear that many of the actors are acting, which is not a good sign, but I blame the scripts, not the actors.

If this is what we're trying to teach kids nowadays, that's saying something. Back-talking to your parents, using slang, trying to act like little thugs? As an African American (Biracial American.) I find this a little offensive, it shows that people think we're nothing but low-class people.

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.

That's all it is. Nothing but a sad attempt at copying Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, but aimed at kids, and it fails terribly. Oh sure, there's a chuckle here and there, but it's overall poorly done, badly acted, and, like I said, it wants to be Fresh Prince so bad, and it falls way short of that goal. Even the opening theme is a rip-off.

Can Nickelodeon greenlit better black sitcoms. This is just as bad as that horrible Cousins For Life that came out last year. It's unfunny, the lead kid who plays Dylan is obnoxious and unlikable, the acting is terrible, it's boring, production value feels cheap and low budget. And the plot is unoriginal. Really Tyler Perry? Ripping off Fresh Prince of Bel Air. This kid is no Will Smith. Get this trash off the air!