Set in Worcester, Massachusetts, Allison is a childless, 30-something, who longs to get out of the small, stifling life she has with her cable-guy husband Kevin . You wouldn’t know the premise is that grim though as the show welcomes viewers into Allison’s home with a familiar scene straight out of sitcoms-past: Kevin plays beer pong in the brightly lit living room while his friends joke along.
Allison walks in holding a basket of laundry before getting hit by a flying ping pong ball. It’s the kind of dumb, physical comedy at the expense of female characters we have all become used to in sitcoms. After a few more jokes and dirty dishes tossed her way, she heads back into the kitchen, and viewers enter an entirely different world. This time in the style of a single-camera drama meant to highlight the somber and unfulfilling reality of Allison’s life away from the laugh track.
ADVERTISEMENT A dark comedy, the show satirizes the misogynistic tropes of 2000's sitcoms . Murphy as the beautiful wife of a decidedly worse-looking yet goofy, supposedly loveable husband. The sharp style switch between sitcom and drama is meant to highlight the frequent lack of agency of female characters in these shows. Ultimately, however, the mix of the two styles is an idea more interesting in concept than in actuality.
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