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A dark comedy series that probes the secret life of a type of woman we all grew up believing we knew: the sitcom wife. Alternating between single-camera realism and multi-camera comedy, the formats will inform one another as we imagine what happens when the sitcom wife escapes her confines and takes the lead in her own life.
21 July 1993, New York, USA
24 January 1954, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
10 April 1980, North York, Ontario, Canada
25 May 1976, San Francisco, California, USA
August 22, 1994 in Quincy, Massachusetts, USA
June 14, 2021
Multiple queries aside, Kevin Can F Himself is carried on the shoulders of Annie Murphy, who churns out an award-worthy performance.
June 14, 2021
Just as Kevin Can F**k Himself strikes multiple tones, Murphy often manages to find the comedy in moments that are also dramatic.
June 11, 2021
Things might get even more interesting if Kevin steps off the sitcom stage at some point and has his own single-camera storyline. Maybe there's something deep and disturbing lurking behind that man-child exterior.
June 10, 2021
Murphy, so endearing on Schitt's Creek as Alexis, is critical to the success of the show. She makes you root for Allison as she begins to shake off a lifetime of passivity and humiliation. Inboden, too, is a big plus.
June 14, 2021
As the show goes on, the ironic "sitcom" sequences do get harder to sit through. But it's also doing groundbreaking work.
June 11, 2021
Kevin Can F**k Himself goes about its mission with such skill that you might not even realize that it's wrecking your favorite sitcoms in the process.
June 10, 2021
While you can imagine a version of this show that's darkly hilarious, through the first three episodes, "Kevin Can..." is mostly a morose slog.
June 13, 2021
The stark mashing together of styles immediately succeeds in bringing a human element to comedies centered around misogyny, though that win may have been achieved too quickly for the high-concept series to hold any water down the road.
June 14, 2021
You can feel the ache of regret and resentment in Murphy's every minor facial movement, as compelling and in command of the character as she was on Schitt's Creek. She
June 08, 2021
Luckily, the cast and gimmick elevate Kevin Can F**k Himself from a high concept joke to a series worth watching.
June 10, 2021
Each episode hops over the genre divide over and over again, and when it works, the jarring tonal discordance is Gone Girl levels of darkly humorous.
June 14, 2021
While the execution of these jarring transitions can't be faulted, the real problem with Kevin is that once you get it, there's not much else to get.
