‘F is for Family’ Trailer Breakdown
Maybe the most anticipated series of the Winter season is Netflix’s F is for Family created by Bill Burr and produced by Michael Price and a lot of other people you know. The series exhibits an excellent cast, and with BoJack Horseman already showcasing the power of having a successful animated comedy on the streaming service, F is for Family has a great chance of building off of that success all the while charting in a different territory.
For those that don’t know, ‘F is for Family‘ is an upcoming animated comedy that stars Bill Burr as Frank Murphy, the family’s extreme patriarch; Laura Dern will voice Franks wife Sue; Justin Long voices the family’s oldest son, Kevin; and Haley Reinhart voices Bill Murphy.
The show will be a “family comedy” based on the stand up of Bill Burr, and will focus particularly on the aspect of complaining about political correctness which is slowly ruining our country. Moreover, the show will take place in the 1970s, “a time when you could smack your kid, smoke inside, and bring a gun to the airport”. Alas, this scene features a television news reporter sponsoring a popular beer which is a notion that wouldn’t have a chance happening today. Remember when Fred Flintstone pushed Lucky Strike cigs? Or how about in the early 1900s when doctors advertised heroine as a cough medicine? Times have changed, but for the better?
Like Family Guy, The Simpsons, and others, ‘F is for Family‘ is doing a great job of giving us a setting that seems very classic to an era when most families didn’t live in condos with two cars and both husbands and wives working. During the course of the trailer you even see Sue and Frank arguing over what constitutes as work which nowadays seems odd, but back then this was real.
As we’ve seen with the excellent Jessica Jones series, Netflix offers producers of TV shows carte blanche in terms of sexuality, crass humor, and a wide range of topics that might be considered too taboo for television be it on cable or broadcast. F is for Family looks to continue that tradition and judging from the trailer, the series FEELS like a Netflix show, not just a broadcast network show heading to the popular streaming service. Hulu lacks in this department.
F is for Family drops six episodes on December 18th only on Netflix. Check out the full-length trailer here.
