B+Season 12It’s Always Sunny’s momentous season finale leaves the Gang in fluxDennis Perkins3/08/17 9:30pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkSeason finales have never really been It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia’s strongest outings. The perceived need for a…
BSeason 12“A Cricket’s Tale” shows the inescapable pull of the Always Sunny Gang’s black holeDennis Perkins3/01/17 9:30pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThere once was a man named Matthew Mara. But now there is only Rickety Cricket. The moniker—like the innumerable…
ASeason 12It’s Always Sunny delivers a near-perfect poisoned valentineDennis Perkins2/22/17 9:30pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkSeason 12 has seen It’s Always Sunny stretch itself. And while the show’s stylistic ambitions have been mostly …
C+Season 12An undisciplined It’s Always Sunny squanders Dee’s darknessDennis Perkins2/15/17 9:30pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIt’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia is such a finely calibrated comedy engine that, when it goes wrong, you can just hear…
B+Season 12Political correctness is life and death on a hilarious It’s Always SunnyDennis Perkins2/08/17 9:30pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThe five main characters of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia are often described as “the worst people in the world.”…
BSeason 12It’s Always Sunny can’t commit to “Making Dennis Reynolds A Murderer”Dennis Perkins2/01/17 9:30pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkAs It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia has gone on, the Gang’s insanity has picked up layers. While the show was birthed…
BSeason 12Amid damage control and rebranding, It’s Always Sunny remains itselfDennis Perkins1/25/17 9:30pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkAn episode of callbacks, cameos, and score-settling, “Wolf Cola: A Public Relations Nightmare” nonetheless finds…
B+Season 12It’s Always Sunny sweetens its situation when the Gang secretly goes multi-cameraDennis Perkins1/18/17 9:30pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThere’s been a lot of talk going into this season about It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia tying Ozzie & Harriet for the…
B+Season 12Even a water park can’t dilute the Always Sunny gang’s comic awfulnessDennis Perkins1/11/17 9:30pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkAfter the ambitious, mostly masterful musical spectacle that was last week’s season 12 premiere, this week, the Gang…
ASeason 12It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia presents Racism: The MusicalDennis Perkins1/04/17 9:32pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkComedy on It’s Alway Sunny In Philadelphia is filtered through so many layers that adding one more for an episode is…
A-Season 11In the Sunny finale, hell is other people—the Gang, specificallyDennis Perkins3/09/16 9:30pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkWe start out in the same place, the episode intro ominously labeling the setting and time as “unknown,” the Gang back…
B+Season 11The inevitable finally happens on Sunny as the Gang goes to hellDennis Perkins3/02/16 9:30pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIn the last few seasons at least, It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia has strained a bit at the finish line, reaching out…
ASeason 11Charlie catches a leprechaun in the best It’s Always Sunny of the seasonDennis Perkins2/24/16 9:30pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkWhat’s so outstanding about “Charlie’s Catches A Leprechaun” is how everything makes perfect sense. Being It’s Always…
BSeason 11Charlie’s bird law saves the day in another derivative but funny SunnyDennis Perkins2/17/16 9:30pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkUncle Jack. The Lawyer. Bill and Maureen Ponderosa. The entire McPoyle clan (except for the really funny ones). Bird…
A-Season 11Getting inside Frank’s head makes for a funny, tragic It’s Always SunnyDennis Perkins2/10/16 9:30pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIf the Gang is the worst (they are), Frank is the worst of the worst, on a couple of fronts. Since Frank Reynolds…
B-Season 11It’s a shiny The Shining when Mac & Dennis ditch Sunny for the suburbsDennis Perkins2/03/16 9:30pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIt’s worrisome that season eleven of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia hasn’t truly committed. While this has been a…
B-Season 11The Gang debates art vs. smut on a scattered It’s Always Sunny In PhiladelphiaDennis Perkins1/27/16 9:30pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkFor a show made up of seemingly random acts of stupidity and cruelty, It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia is deceptively…
BSeason 11A funny, disposable Sunny drops the Gang into an ’80s ski movieDennis Perkins1/20/16 9:30pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkPulling the Gang out of their native habitat is a risky proposition. Tone is so important to It’s Always Sunny In…
B+Season 11Frank falls out the window, and Sunny looks back for the laughsDennis Perkins1/13/16 9:30pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkAs was the case in last week’s triumphant It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia return (“Chardee MacDennis 2: Electric…
A-Season 11It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia returns with a game night favoriteDennis Perkins1/06/16 9:30pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkAfter nearly a year away the Gang is back—and they’ve brought us a present in the form of another installment of the…
