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Tim Allen, Richard Karn, and April Wilkerson in Assembly Required (2021)

Review by chadwick-86955

Assembly Required

2/10

Horrible ... What a Disappointment

I was a great fan of Tim Allen, Richard Karn, and Home Improvement. I was a fan of Tim Allen when he was a stand-up comic, and in movies like Big Trouble. This series is atrocious. Allen is argumentative and senile all the time, his jokes fail consistently. He has no intelligence to add. His sole "role" appears to be to criticize Karn ... this isn't Home Improvement (where there was some variety), or to make stupid comments. He could at least act professionally, add some technical intelligence, which, apparently, he cannot do. The days of abusing Al for fun are over. What is wrong with Allen ? Karn is intelligent and adds to the show. How long will Karn take the abuse ?

The show, itself, lacks direction, technical details, judging requirements; it is a joke. The judging is pitiful.

What exactly does April Wilkerson do ? She appears to only sabotage the equipment before having it sent out. Is this an intentional minimalistic inclusion of women that have no important role, only to show how ignorant they are ?

Season 1, Episode 6:

Julia Montgomery ... She immediately starts off on a diatribe how men say that women can't weld/build ... about how that is all BS. Then she fails the first test, because she didn't know anything about electricity. Who set that up ? Must have been intentional.

April "sabotages" the equipment by bending the fins on a motor. Are you kidding ? Bending the fins ? In a previous episode it was messing with the carburetor float, now we just have bent fins ? Wow, what sort of genius would it take to bend the fins back ? Oh, yes, there were two of them, bent in opposite directions ... very difficult.

Allen mentions the term "skeet shooting machine" ... it is called a trap machine, dumbass. Who wrote the scripts ?

As a fan of Allen, Karn, and Home Improvement, the series is appalling.
  • chadwick-86955
  • Jun 30, 2022

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