Hulu’s ‘Mother Up!’ Struggles to Be the Next ‘Family Guy’

If The Awesomes is Hulu‘s promising stroll into original programming, Mother Up! is its first major stumble. The new animated comedy stars Eva Longoria as a high-powered music executive who moves to the suburbs to raise her children after a work scandal.

Mother Up! was clearly envisioned as a sort of female-fronted Family Guy, pitched “as if Peter Griffin were a woman.” Longoria’s Rudi Wilson makes crude jokes about her kid, and she doesn’t get along with the Stepford moms who populate the ‘burbs.

But the difference between Rudi and Peter Griffin is that although both are inept parents, Griffin is dumb and doesn’t know any better. Rudi is smart, but a lazy, awful person. It’s not funny watching her repeatedly fail to engage her children or show them any affection whatsoever; it’s sadThe main character ignores her kids, but not in a frosty Betty Draper way. It’s more of a “this is quite depressing and I don’t want to watch it anymore” kind of way. Worse, perhaps: Family Guy is funnyMother Up! is not. Read more…

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