Almost Heroes

Just happened to see this listed in the "this show is like" section of another Canadian sitcom and remembered watching it back in.... wow I guess 2011?

Anyway this show had good intentions and a show set in a comic book store would be cool. Maybe based a bit too much on Big Bang Theory, you can tell the idea is "Big Bang's nerds but with dirty jokes".

As other reviews here pointed out years ago though, the writing and acting were both very bad. The jokes weren't just old and predictable, they were just poorly written and performed. This show had nothing new to offer and, like so many other bad Canadian sitcoms, it was just cheaply and poorly done on all fronts.

It's a shame to waste a good location and idea. Now years later we still have the same problem with poorly done Canadian comedy shows continuing to be made. Why is it so hard to just make good shows here?

I like the idea of the show but the show had some problems. It is too bad because it would have been great to have a comic book store set comedy show here in Canada but it was not meant to be. Good idea but the jokes were not great but that could be the problem of bad acting which this show had in spades.

This show had a good idea behind it of being a Canadian comedy series with a geeky heart. They were obviously trying to be a kind of a Canadian Big Bang Theory but just couldn't pull it off. The acting is pretty ham and the writing is not very funny. Not a winner of a TV show but not the worst either.

I thought I would like this show and really hoped that I would but I just could not get into it at all. I did not like most of the cast or maybe the problem was how the characters were written or some combination of those two things. Either way however I just did not find them or the show at all funny. I thought it was very juvenile but at the same time not very much fun. As a lifelong collector of comic books who has always loved comics and the culture of collecting and hanging out in the local comics stores, I thought a show about a comic book store would have a lot of fun and funny moments but this show did not deliver on those for me.

The acting was over the top and the writing was not good either... I didn't like this show.