Has anyone watched CHAD ?
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Nasim Pedrad pulls off a bold, bizarre comedic feat in “Chad,” the new single-camera comedy from TBS. She fully immerses herself into her portrayal of a 14-year-old boy, without the story ever winking that the character is being played by a talented comedian (who happened to honed her skills with similar characters on “Saturday Night Live”). Hulu’s comedy series “Pen15” did something similar, with Anna Konkle and Maya Erskine playing versions of their middle school selves, creating excellent and honest awkwardness with their arrested development performance art. But Pedrad raises the stakes by playing a boy, one who can be especially pesky or create even more chaos wherever they go. It’s “ Leave It to Beaver ” or even " Napoleon Dynamite " but with Pedrad as the lead, and it's best when it's a loving parody of being a teenage boy.
Chad is a prototypical ninth grade male, with his oversized turtle shell backpack, his dreams of popularity, and complete lack of self-awareness. Series creator Pedrad and the show’s writers lean into this a great deal, and make it so that while Chad already looks kind of alien with Pedrad playing him, he’s also hands-down the strangest kid in his high school. He doesn’t know how to reach his goal of coolness (which would mean the acceptance of highly popular classmate Reid [ Thomas Barbusca ]), but Chad thinks he can just make it happen. In the first episode, he randomly goes up to some people and says that he had sex over the summer. It’s a complete lie, and it ends up blowing up in his face when he feels the pressure of living up to the new reputation. While reflecting the ridiculousness of youth, "Chad" often has a funny way of throwing a wrench into his latest scheme for acceptance.
Nasim Pedrad Boldly Parodies Adolescence in TBS' Chad | TV/Streaming | Roger Ebert
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This thing came on after one of the NCAA basketball games a week or two ago, so I watched some of it.
I found it stunningly unfunny. First of all, the 39 woman who plays this 14 year old boy neither looks like, sounds like, or acts like any 14 year old boy I've ever known or heard of. Secondly, the character looks like the victim of a mediocre sex change operation. The character of Chad is unbelievably whiny and misinterprets almost everything that happens to him. If this is what the creators were going for , well, it is a failure.
This show has a perhaps unprecedentedly low 2.1 rating on IMDB
Chad (TV Series 2021– ) - IMDb
1 day ago · Fourteen-year-old boy, Chad, is being portrayed by thirty-nine year old actress, Nasim Pedrad.
Has anyone here besides me seen this ?
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I hadn't even heard of it before, John. It looks horrible.
The fact that a 39 year old woman was playing a HS teen boy made me slightly intrigued, but yes, it's stupid and annoying.
Looks really, really stupid.
I was curious because of this post and was able to catch the last 20 minutes of the second showing last night. It was painful to watch at times, but I couldn't tear my eyes away. Kind of like watching a train wreck.
I might have to watch the rest of the season, too. Just to experience maybe the worst show ever made.