UNSUPERVISED

** (out of ****)

It’s too easy to just write Unsupervised off as a wannabe Beavis and Butthead, minus all of that perfectly crafted music video commentary and those clever jokes. Too easy, sure, but I’m not sure Unsupervised warrants anything more. It’s not so bad that it’s offensive, but instead tries so hard to be offensive that it’s bad. Which is a shame, because its need to be vulgar gets in the way of moments that are sweet, if not truthful. Towards the end of the episode, I realized the opportunity that a show like this could have. All of the characters are at a house party, drinking, smoking, doing drugs, and talking to each other frankly and naively about sex in the only way high school Freshman can get away with it on TV: while being animated. If this show figured out a way to relax, and not constantly remind us what a zany ‘toon it is, it could put its self in a position to be a landmark. Instead, we get enough ethnic stereotypes and harebrained schemes that it will undoubtedly waste all of its potential, and most likely be canceled before it has a chance to develop into anything worth watching. – RH