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Super Fun Night - Pilot

The Australian actress/comedian Rebel Wilson is booming business in America. She starred in blockbusters like ‘Bridesmaids’ and ‘Pitch Perfect’, and her popularity is at such a peak that ABC decided to give her her own television show. It is called ‘Super Fun Night’ and is about three somewhat geeky friends who decide they haven’t had enough fun when they were younger and will now compensate this by doing something new and fun every Friday night. It is a very simple idea: every episode will focus on a new idea, and judging from the pilot these ideas are blown up in order to make the series as funny as possible, while the plot and characters are clearly underdeveloped.

Super Fun Night’ starts with Kimmie (played by Rebel Wilson), who’s started a video blog. This blog is based on her diary, which she accidentally dropped in the toilet. She says she’s always felt like a loser, but that things are going to change now. From now on, she says, Friday night is fun night. She and her friends, Marika (Lauren Ash) and Helen-Alice (Liza Lapira, ‘NCIS’), set out to go all out every week. In the first episode they decide to go to a piano bar, which terrifies Kimmie because she is suffering from a severe stage fright. This is illustrated by a flashback where we see a ten-year-old Kimmie who faints during a recital. The pilot, then, shows how Kimmie overcomes her fears of singing in front of a large crowd.

Before we actually see her sing at the piano bar, Kimmie introduces her to her life, her job and her friends through several flashbacks. She tells us how she got through her first day at work (she is skipping through a deserted corridor, and accidentally hits a light out of the ceiling). We are also introduced to her possible lover, Richard (the British actor Kevin Bishop, ‘Star Stories’), which cannot possibly be seen as the perfect romantic moment. The series is full of these awkward aspects, which makes it hard not to draw comparisons between another show, namely the British sitcom ‘Miranda’. This is also a comedy about a clumsy and slightly too big woman. Some of the scenes in ‘Super Fun Night’ seem to be exact copies of ‘Miranda’, which becomes especially evident when Kimmie’s skirt gets stuck in a lift, upon which she is left standing in her underwear. Strikingly, the scenes don’t cause as much laughter as ‘Miranda’, which on one hand is due to the focus on the jokes rather than the plot of the episode. On the other hand, it is because Rebel Wilson is the absolute star of the show, and she is clearly trying very hard to be funny. This makes it seem quite forced without actually being funny.

Rebel Wilson is the only cast member who is at liberty to exaggerate her acting skills; she is the one in charge while the rest of the cast is only there to make her stand out even more. Kimmie’s friends hardly even have dialogue, which makes you wonder why ‘Super Fun Night’ isn’t called ‘The Rebel Wilson Show’. At one point Helen-Alice is allowed to talk. Although she is not a drinker, she is forced to drink anyway, and not surprisingly becomes very drunk. As a result, she starts screaming and drunk-dialling, which is all highly predictable. Even the bad guy of the series is not much of a distraction from Wilson’s absolute power as the star of the show; Kimmie’s envious boss Kendall (Kate Jenkinson, ‘Offspring’) ticks all boxes of the typical villain. She is prettier than Kimmie, much more confident and is also a very good singer. And, worst of all, she is after Richard. She is the reason why Kimmie is desperately trying to overcome her phobia, which is why, during the super fun night, she grabs the microphone and shows everyone once and for all that she can actually sing. The episode ends with a face-off between Kimmie and Kendall, upon which the latter wins a massive trophy. Still it is Kimmie who turns out to be the winner: Richard joins her for a consolation pizza.

All in all, ‘Super Fun Night’ is without a doubt a show in which Rebel Wilson can showcase her comedic talent. Unfortunately, Wilson exploits her talent in such an exaggerated manner that she becomes a parody of herself and her character loses all credibility. The rest of the cast only add to this notion because they are forced to do whatever Wilson demands of them. The events in the series lack originality, and the jokes are bad. The only way in which the creators of the series could improve this show is by cutting down Wilson’s importance by developing the supporting cast’s lives. The title of the series seems to be a badly chosen one; the characters in ‘Super Fun Night’ might actually enjoy their night out, but I highly doubt there will be any people staying in to watch Rebel Wilson and her friends. Let’s hope next week will be more fun.
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