The joke is in the title.
Judge Steve Harvey, the latest venture from America’s most-recruited host, not Kenan Thompson SNL sketch is also not a death tv show on Atlanta, but in reality a real show tonight on ABC will have viewers laughing hysterically but mostly in awe of the former company’s endless branding capabilities.
Despite the project’s innate absurdity – mainly in that Harvey is neither a judge nor has any legal experience – joining the ecosystem of cyber courts is a wise move undeniable. However, the past five years have seen the referee-based genre become increasingly tragic. These national partnership programs are less concerned with appearing as legitimate forums with actual cases and litigants, as recently concluded. Judge Judy and The The People’s Court, and instead act like tabloid shows that take place in courtrooms. (See Couples Court with The Cutlers, Lauren Lake’s Maternity Court, the current status of Divorce Court, and Entertainment Studios’ list of staged court appearances are prime examples.) Plus, it’s hard to think of a more appropriate venue than a televised courtroom for a self-proclaimed man. I am wiser and wiser than ordinary people.
The most accurate description of Judge Steve Harvey it’s a sequel to the self-help episodes of his previous NBC talk shows Steve Harvey and Steve, with a dose of noisy church service energy. The highly self-aware, comedy-laden show opens with Harvey striding down the sidewalk in a flashy coat before entering the courtroom, “where common sense presides over” in lieu of any professional sympathy. which business belongs to him. Accordingly, the show blatantly bypassed the formalities and processes of a courtroom at every turn, from Harvey’s flashy entrance and exit through the automatic sliding doors of his choice. to wear a black suit instead of a judicial robe, the presence of an actor and a boisterous audience seemed like they were watching a stand-up act. At one point in the first episode, Harvey even came off the bench to give a motivational speech on the main floor.
During his career as an author, radio host, and later television gigs, Harvey took on the role of the seasoned Black elder brother with an unsurpassed understanding of relationships and business acumen, whether he is instructing single women to think like men to stay married or told his talk show audience that they couldn’t sleep more than eight hours a day if they wanted to be rich. Of course, like most self-help gurus, his advice is filled with the basics and implementation of the bootstrap thought. And his romantic and familial advice often turns into religious, patriarchal terror. However, both viewers who see his words as a relationship and those who like to poke fun at him on Twitter will be excited to watch Harvey give the simplest life advice and arbitrarily give the plaintiff money in self-anointed authority signed by him.
Watch expertly qualified and experienced TV judges like Judith Sheindlin, Marilyn Milian and Greg Mathis tackle the truly complex issues that lead to surprising results that make for a courtroom drama the best. But for Judge Steve HarveyIn order to work, the participants must (or at least pretend to be) extremely slow to understand and present conflicts that can be easily resolved. For example, the first episode of the first episode featured two neighbors fighting over damage one’s fallen tree caused to the other’s backyard fence, then abruptly turning to an alcohol dispute for a neighbor. beside. In a more astonishing case, a woman accused of using money allocated to organize her brother’s funeral on a butt lift in Brazil was, as you can imagine, the golden comedy for with Harvey. Because that is the homeowner’s expertise, there is no real case of any monetary claim being heard, but rather a fractured relationship.
Not that the show ever made a statement about reality, but Judge Steve Harvey lacks the natural, reality-television quality associated with its stage participants, who are armed with zingers and move their cases without Harvey prompting. However, the staging isn’t nearly as clear-cut as newer shows like United States Courts or Justice for all. And although the litigants have names that look like they were created by an online generator, the final attribution disclaimer does not refer to them as actors but rather people who have agreed to let their disputes play out. out on the show (through an audition process, according to Google).
For the most part, with the exception of the presenter, the show follows a tried-and-true formula of believable laughter, with key court shows such as over-talking plaintiffs and overconfident defendants having unintentionally admitting fault. As much as this new gig invites mockery, Harvey easily entertains without turning outright obnoxious or, dare I say, inexplicable. He seems to be the easiest to digest when he indulges in absurdities, SNL– great personality that has made him an attractive celebrity over the past decade.
Judge Steve Harvey feels like the entertainment mogul in his fully realized form, becoming what he wants to be for the rest of his life.
