Summer Binged 2021/2022 - Kevin Can F**k Himself - Season One

Kevin Can Fuck Himself is my latest Binge ahead of finally catching the Rona. Yep expect a few more posts as binge watching TV, listening to the new record from The Weeknd is all I have planned for the next seven days.

Set in Worcester, Massachusetts, the show explores the life of Allison McRoberts (played by Annie Murphy, Schitt's Creek), a woman struggling to redefine her life amid an unhappy marriage to her husband Kevin, an insensitive, unambitious man-child. 

The show presents contrasting perspectives of her experience: as a stereotypical sitcom wife when Allison is with her husband Kevin, shown with a multiple-camera setup and canned laughter, and as a woman navigating a difficult personal path, filmed in the single-camera setup more common to television dramas.

Last August, the series was renewed for a second season, along with confirming the series would conclude after two seasons.

I do love a two season run. PEN15, the recent AMC The Walking Dead: World Beyond, along with the unfinished FOX music drama Star all ended up after two, short season runs.

Kevin Can Fuck Himself is fun, whilst being disturbing all within the same episode. Raymond Lee (the hunk in HBO's short lived Here & Now) is great as Allison McRoberts escapism.

The show was a really easy eight episode watch. While my family didn't love the switch in tone, I slayed all eight episodes whilst loving the contrast between the US sitcom format mixed with HBO drama.

Kevin is a totally vile character/husband so you easily side with Allison (even after one episode) time and time again.

The series marks a shift from AMC being obsessed with zombies, Breaking Bad and its spin off along side new Australian vampire series, Firebite.

The drama, the struggle, the dark contrast is well done. I am looking forward to seeing the second and final series, hopefully in 2022.