"Always Sunny In Philadelphia"

It is a risk taken far to often; creating a cable television show basically about nothing, and hoping for the next comedy hit.‘Always Sunny In Philadelphia’ chronicles the lives of four friends and bar owners as they get into the most bizarre of dilemmas and find even stranger ways of getting out of them.

No punch lines, just the raw ups and downs of the relationships between four overly imbibed friends. While it can be hard to connect to the exact situations, as in every successful show the interactions and relationships between characters are easily relatable.

The four main characters are each equally narcissistic and self absorbed, creating most of the tension, while the seemingly effortless and natural interaction between them makes the show work. The addition of Danny Devito as the crude shrewd father of Dee and Dennis complements the cast perfectly.

If jokes about molesting children and finding a dumpsters’ baby might offend you, then this show surely will too. But just like others of its kind that rely on crude shock value, the immaturity and childish humor is always allegorical. If you can wade through the typical humor expected of a group of hard-drinking 20 something’s, there is always an underlying irony to be found in each episode, that at times, seems to be about nothing.