Center of the Universe, a sitcom about a grown-up family that still circles their life around one of its members, is an odd disappointment. There are some markedly talented and well-pedigreed actors in it, including most notably John Goodman, who I always want to see in likable material, plays this focus, and with Ed Asner, Jean Smart (who was amazing in Garden State) and others, you’d think even a read-through of a half-decent script would be reasoably amusing. But the odd thing is that the performance feels like a read through, as if each talented actor was trying for the first time to find meaning and rhythm in the script, and no one is sure where to stand. The gathered folk in the living room just becomes a nightmare of boring blocking.Get rid of the folks who wrote and directed this, get rid of the point of all this, and you’ll just have Jean Smart and John Goodman and how hard can it be to craft something good?
Walk-Through Of The Universe
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