In mid-September I wrote a post about an upcoming new series. The post was about the new show Cavemen. Well, the show premiered on Tuesday night and thanks to us having a PVR I’m only just now getting around to watching it.
I said in my original post about the show that it was either going to suck because the idea was strange or that the writing would be so good that it would be an excellent show.
There’s more normal Homo Sapiens in the show than there are cavemen, and the cavemen consist of two brothers and an old friend living together in an apartment in San Diego.
If you forget for a moment that the guys are cavemen it’s just like watching a fairly good sitcom about three single guys living together, working and trying to find love in the big city. Well, one of the guys, Joel, has found love. He’s dating a Sape – short for Homo Sapien which is frowned upon in Caveman culture.
In the premiere episode he breaks the news about his new girlfriend to his brother and friend. It’s a big deal!
Oh and like any sitcom with three guys living together one is practical and tries to hold everything together – that’s Joel the one with the Homo Sapien girlfriend. One of the other guys, Nick, is kind of neurotic. He’s been working on his dissertation for a year and hasn’t written a thing. He’s the guy who seems to like analyzing things. Then there’s the screw up, Andy. He’s pining for the girlfriend he left back home and he seems sort of hopeless. I think Joel and Nick will spend a lot of time looking out for Andy.
I don’t know if this show will make it or not, but I liked it enough to watch it again.
Did you see the show? What did you think of it?
I didn’t watch it, I watched House. I still can’t believe they made a TV series after a TV commercial! There is just something wrong about that!
I watched! 🙂 It was better than I expected. It’s hard to tell if it’ll last. If it doesn’t, I hope it’s at least good while it does lol.
Imagine having a caveman fetish… weird lol
Sounds like it might have some laughs in it.
I missed that one. But seems to be some fun. thanks for the tip.
I don’t know….there’s still a stigma about turning a little 30 second commercial into a 30 minute sitcom. I don’t think I can bear to watch it really. What’s nice about the little commercials is the dry humour works in a short format, I can’t imagine it would carry over quite well given a longer length of time.
So, how do they slip in the Geico ads? Are they featured in the background or are they more prominent?
I have seen a commercial for this but wasn’t sure if i would enjoy reading it or not. I might watch it one of these weeks.
I watched it. I was able to post my entire review about it in my Twitter stream. I just said “Cavemen was meh”. Really didn’t bring anything new, just the same old stuff with a couple of chuckles.