Kevin Can F**k Himself

The following contains spoilers for Kevin Can F**k Himself S2E6, “The Machine” (written by Valerie Armstrong and directed by Anna Dokoza). “The Machine” ends with Allison telling Sam that she no longer wants to fake her own death to escape her life because she’s figured out how to solve the problems within it: make them […] More

The following contains spoilers for Kevin Can F**k Himself S2E5, “The Unreliable Narrator” (written by Valerie Armstrong and directed by Anna Dokoza) Kevin Can F**k Himself S2E5 strikes me as something of a return to form, in that it’s an entertaining episode of the series that successfully plays as both drama and sitcom, but I […] More

The following contains spoilers for Kevin Can F**k Himself S2E4, “Jesus, Allison” (written by Valerie Armstrong & Grace Edwards and directed by Anna Dokoza) Kevin Can F**k Himself S2E4’s title (“Jesus, Allison”) could probably refer to what a lot of us exclaimed as the episode came to a close with her telling Sam about her […] More

The following contains spoilers for Kevin Can F**k Himself S2E3, “Ghost” (written by Valerie Armstrong and directed by Anna Dokoza) “Ghost” seems to want to be a Halloween episode, and it has a spooky title card to match that conceit, but I can’t say it manages to land as such. Kevin is celebrating “Pal-o-ween” but […] More

The following contains spoilers for Kevin Can F**k Himself S2E2, “The Way We Were” (written by Valerie Armstrong & Craig DiGregorio and directed by Anna Dokoza) I said last week that I kind of wanted to be watching the version of the show where Neil died, and that remains true insofar as I have this […] More

The following contains spoilers for Kevin Can F**k Himself S2E1, “Mrs. McRoberts Is Dead” (written by Valerie Armstrong and directed by Anna Dokoza) What I have found most intriguing about Kevin Can F**k Himself from the beginning has been its form—how it shifts from presenting itself as a stereotypical sitcom when Kevin is around to […] More

The following contains spoilers for the Season 1 finale of Kevin Can F**k Himself: Episode 8, “Fixed” Kevin (Eric Peterson) is something of a Super Mario boss in the finale of Kevin Can F**k Himself—vulnerable and weak after an attack, only to regain health and return stronger. Sadly there are no hospital comedy antics, or […] More

The following contains spoilers for Kevin Can F**k Himself Episode 7, “Broken” With Episode 7 (“Broken”), Kevin Can F**k Himself changes genre again. Or, well that’s not quite right; this show has played with genre all along, from the first time it shifted from a multi-camera sitcom to a single-camera drama the moment Allison left […] More

The following contains spoilers for Kevin Can F**k Himself Episode 6, “The Grand Victorian” The sitcom doesn’t begin until a full ten minutes into Kevin Can F**k Himself Episode 6, as “The Grand Victorian” begins instead with Allison and Patty away from Kevin’s orbit. I continue to find myself fascinated with the structure of this […] More

The following contains spoilers for Kevin Can F**k Himself Episode 5, “New Patty” We begin Episode 5 back in the car right after Allison (Annie Murphy) has told Patty (Mary Hollis Inboden) that she’s going to kill Kevin (Eric Petersen). Patty immediately responds “no you’re not!” and dismisses this as a blip, and says Allison is […] More

The following contains spoilers for Kevin Can F**k Himself Episode 4, “Live Free or Die” The premise of Kevin Can F**k Himself was immediately intriguing to many of us from the moment we heard about the show, and it hardly needs explaining. It’s in the name, which of course makes direct reference to one sitcom […] More