CRIT-O-MATIC.Byline: - David Kronke ``The War at Home'' (Fox, Channel 11; 8:30 p.m. Sunday) Logline: Family life these days! Dave (Michael Rapaport) and Vicky (Anita Barone Anita Barone (born September 25, 1964, St. Louis, Missouri) is an American actress. She starred in the Fox sitcom The War at Home. Biography Education Barone earned her BFA from the University of Detroit, followed by a MFA from Wayne State University. ) cope with their hectic work schedules and neurotic kids - conniving Mike (Dean Collins), horny horn·y adj. 1. Made of horn or a similar substance. 2. Tough and calloused, as of skin. Hillary (Kaylee DeFer Kaylee DeFer (born Kaylee Vanni September 23, 1986) is an American actress. DeFer was born in Tucson, Arizona and attended Desert Christian High School. In 2003, she left for Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting. ) and curious - very curious - Larry (Kyle Sullivan). Tonight, Dave has an aneurysm aneurysm (ăn`y  rĭzəm), localized dilatation of a blood vessel, particularly an artery, or the heart. when Hillary brings home a hip-hop thug, while Vicky's cool with it. Pros: Familial contempt is a pretty familiar concept for sitcoms, but ``War at Home'' has a take that's intermittently fresh and yet will resonate with harried parents who don't want their kids behaving as they did in their own youth. Dave even knows exactly how many days until the kids leave home for college and he finally gets his well-deserved breather. The cast meshes credibly, and there's even a pseudo-interactive element if you call the phone number displayed during the show - but, really, you quite likely won't want to. Cons: The racial element and the daughter's lustiness lust·y adj. lust·i·er, lust·i·est 1. Full of vigor or vitality; robust. 2. Powerful; strong: a lusty cry. 3. Lustful. 4. Merry; joyous. in tonight's debut are both hackneyed and on the queasy QUEASY - An early system on the IBM 701. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)]. side, indicating the series won't mind settling for easy jokes. (That there's a trumped-up laugh track and no future episodes were available for review aren't good signs, either.) In a nutshell: Positioned between ``The Simpsons'' and ``Family Guy,'' ``War at Home,'' given its themes of family dysfunction, certainly fits in comfortably in a way the savvier ``Arrested Development'' never quite managed (though parents may want to herd younger ``Simpsons'' fans out of the room). Our rating: Two and one half stars CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Kaylee DeFer and Michael Rapaport face off as daughter and father in ``The War at Home,'' on Fox. |
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