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- NBC
- Feb 16, 2021
- NBC
- Feb 16, 2021
Summary After the death of his wife, Atlanta morning show host Kenan (Kenan Thompson) juggles work and raising his two daughters as his father-in-law (Don Johnson), brother (Chris Redd), and co-workers try to give him advice.
Created By: David Caspe, Jackie Clarke
- NBC
- Feb 16, 2021
- NBC
- Feb 16, 2021
Kenan
Season 1
Season Premiere: Feb 16, 2021
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Summary After the death of his wife, Atlanta morning show host Kenan (Kenan Thompson) juggles work and raising his two daughters as his father-in-law (Don Johnson), brother (Chris Redd), and co-workers try to give him advice.
Created By: David Caspe, Jackie Clarke
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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56% Positive
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33% Mixed
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11% Negative
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1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
64
56% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
33% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
11% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
While Kenan may not be groundbreaking comedy on its face, it provides much needed emotional comfort and laughs and that's invaluable right now.
It looks like a smart embrace of Thompson’s strengths as a performer, plus a bittersweet streak of tenderness that could make the show stand out should it decide to lean in.
Amiable. ... Much of the action revolves around the family, who seem authentically related, but there are also excursions into manic hijinks where grown men get everything wrong and wind up breaking stuff. Anyway, it’s an easy hang.
Kenan Thompson makes for a strong center to what looks like will be a warm family sitcom. It has some pacing issues, but by the end of the first episode, we were confident that they would be smoothed out.
There’s some humor to be mined in flashbacks illustrating how Kenan and his wife met on the set of a sitcom – she was only three years older than him but played his character’s mother on the TV show – but the present-day stuff is pretty unfunny, marking this series as a dud on arrival.
"Kenan" stays rooted in the here and now, showing a more vulnerable side of its star, but surrounding him with pretty stale sitcom trappings.
With five characters and about four jokes, Kenan violates even the loosest Hollywood mathematical equations for success.
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