REVIEW: ALLEN GREGORY “VAN MOON RISING”

In the first-season finale, Allen woos Principal Gottlieb as only he can—with bribery. Meanwhile, Richard ropes Julie into a competition with an acquaintance’s adopted child.

Spoilers Below

Rich is all bent out of shape because theirs an African charity function coming up but his arch nemesis Perry Van Moon(played by Jeff Goldblum) is gonna be there too, and they both have adopted kids that really were only adopted to compete against each other. Turns out Perry and his African son have a pretty good relationship, Rich on the other hand knows nothing about Julie. As a result, Julie doesn’t even show up to the gala which causes Perry to embarrass Rich and even question Julie’s existence in front of all the other people there. Luckily, Jeremy comes to the rescue and convinces Julie to come to the event and bail out Rich from all of the abuse.

Meanwhile, Principal Gottlieb smacks the shit out of Allen Gregory leaving a noticeable bruise on his eye(in all fairness she was right). Despite all of this, he doesn’t blame the Principal, but he uses the abuse as leverage against Gottlieb to take Allen out to a nice fancy dinner where they both have to get dressed up and look nice for the occasion. However, things go South when Gottlieb starts missing out on her dude, Sid and opts to go find him. No worries though because Allen just blames Gina.

Overall, the finale of this week’s Allen Gregory  was great. I mean seeing Gottlieb in that dress was gross as shit, and nothing beats Jeff Goldblum doing a cover of Faith Hill’s Breathe. That said, Jeff Goldblum could do anything and I would watch it just because its Jeff fucking Goldblum. In closing, this whole premier season of AG has been a roller coaster run, but the ratings have been pretty consistent. I for one thinks it deserves a renew because as the season went along, the show became more and more mature, having me believe that Jonah Hill and gang were definitely getting the hang of writing a show from scratch with really no one having prior experience in doing it except David A. Goodman. Obviously, the show is a bit abrasive at times, and at times the plots of certain episodes were pretty shit, but I did see flashes of heart and even a spritz of the Hollywood writing magic coming from a Golden Globe nominated, Jonah Hill…how many animated shows can claim they have Golden Globe nominated staff members?