Only watched the 1st episode so far, but didn't find it to be very good.
The main problem for me was that they seemed to be trying way too hard to have a joke for every. single. second. of air time. And most the jokes themselves weren't really funny, whether it be the delivery or the joke itself.
When 90% of the jokes fall flat, it tends to diminish the humor of the other 10% that you manage to get through the non-stop ramblings that aren't really directed at anything in particular on screen other than "boy this Danish movie is really bad, amiright?"
I'll continue watching them if I have absolutely nothing else to do since, imo, the very early original MST3k's were kind of garbage until the writers to found their rhythm.
I've only seen two episodes and it's alright. Compared to the Riff Trax Live of Samurai Cop I saw Thursday it was just night and day how much better Mike, Bill, and Kevin are at riffing than dozens of famous comedy writers and alt-comedians.
And this as well. I think Kevin Murphy and Mike Nelson's comedic writing/timing set the bar really high for this kind of thing and that's what I've come to expect.
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