Werewolf game hunter2/24/2023 ![]() ![]() It shouldn’t be funny, but Glaser is just having so much fun with this idiotic character affectation that it’s hard to not get on board with it. It’s truly out of control, making for one of the show’s most reliable, yet simultaneously most stupid, sources of humor. This year, it’s already out of control when this season begins. It’s practically in every line of his dialogue. One of the great joys of season one was seeing Neon Joe’s “he-yump” catchphrase slowly invade his speech and become increasingly prominent. This might be a bit of a meta commentary on the show largely wrapping itself up last year, and with Joe now retired, the show is now in need of a new angle-or supernatural gimmick-to keep it alive and interesting. Of course, the brave werewolf hunter soon begins coasting from gimmick to gimmick in desperation, trying to rope in an audience. How can it not be when its hero is an absurd lunatic who’s more concerned about wordplay and gimmicks than anything of substance? Clearly it’s just taking some time to set the scene before throwing Neon Joe back into the action, but even if the mayhem didn’t eventually ramp back up, it’s nice to know that a sitcom starring Jon Glaser and Steve Little running a gimmick-themed bar could still work. Despite being a little muted in regard to the monster hunting, the show’s sense of humor is still just as twisted as it’s always been. Season two’s first episode largely ignores anything supernatural in favor of absurd sight gags involving the world’s smallest beer steins. All my tropical dreams are slowly turning into tropical dust.” Make no mistake, this show isn’t shifting into drama territory, but the way it takes itself seriously is certainly an asset to the surreal comedy. ![]() Joe laments at one point, “I’m not doing too good, Cleve. She seems to be taking up much of Joe’s mind now that he’s calmed down, yet with her still out there, he’s unable to truly be happy and at peace. This season of Neon Joe also mines new, exciting territory from this absurd world, like the unrequited love of Joe’s neon-clad babe (which was briefly hinted at in the show’s first season). In a lot of ways muting the werewolf hunting allows the show to go to a lot of fun new places. Even if you’ve never seen season one, with fresh start there’s really no reason why an uninitiated viewer would be lost. It’s a rather bold move for the series to abandon the many great characters and cast from last season (such as Scott Adsit, Steve Cirbus, and Stephanie March), but it’s exciting to see the show moving on and mixing things up rather than just functioning as a belabored extension of what went on last year. Joe is now “retired” from the werewolf hunting game (while experiencing a healthy career as a “regular duck hunter”), as he attempts to run his Hawaiian-themed bar, Oahu Joe’s, with Cleve (Steve Little) in tow. ![]()
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