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The first season of Legit follows stand-up comedian Jim Jefferies and his friends Steve and Billy as they find themselves in a series of increasingly awkward situations.
Starring: Jim Jefferies, Dan Bakkedahl, D.J. Qualls, Mindy Sterling, Sonya EddyComedy | 100% |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.78:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
English SDH, French, Spanish
50GB Blu-ray Disc
Two-disc set (2 BDs)
Region A (B, C untested)
Movie | 3.0 | |
Video | 3.5 | |
Audio | 4.0 | |
Extras | 3.5 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
Stand up comedy is no laughing matter. Well, let me rephrase that. The business of stand up comedy is no laughing matter. Even a relatively small market like my hometown of Portland, Oregon has a burgeoning comedy circuit, and it just so happens that my wife is a regular at several venues in town, including a twice monthly affair that she manages and which regularly turns away paying audience members once the room has reached its capacity. And yet even with this level of relative success, she’s hardly rolling in cash. Through her work, she’s gotten to know many so- called headliners, men and women who tour the nation going from comedy club to comedy club as the night’s main drawing card (bookings which usually include a so-called “featured” comedian as well as what is normally a local host). Even these people, who are considerably further up the pay scale than my wife is, often live a hardscrabble existence, Many of them have had Comedy Central specials, and a few of them have managed to get significant supporting roles on television shows or even films, and yet few of them are hardly ready to put a down payment on a Hollywood hills mansion. Australian stand up Jim Jefferies isn’t exactly a household name in the United States, but he’s the latest comedian to try to transport his routines, at times whole cloth, into an often snarky sitcom format. If the most successful of the most recent glut of cable outings in this subgenre is Louis C.K.’s Louie, there’s a longstanding tradition in this arena that stretches back to Seinfeld and even in a way to much earlier sitcoms featuring stand up comedians from the Dark Ages like Joey Bishop, Bill Dana (who, after all, played his stand up character Jose Jimenez on his own sitcom) to such icons as Jack Benny, who more less did stand up in most episodes of his long running program. Jefferies is therefore the latest in a long line of stand up comedians trying to slightly alter their stand up personas in a somewhat more structured format, though in the case of Legit that structure is often as loose limbed as its star. Jefferies’ humor is often politically incorrect (a recurring character is a severely disabled young man who is the brunt of many jokes), but it’s actually the show’s tendency toward touchy-feeliness that may end up annoying what is probably its younger male demographic.
Legit: The Complete First Season is presented on Blu-ray courtesy of 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment with an AVC encoded 1080p transfer in 1.78:1. This digitally shot series looks okay in high definition, but it rarely really pops with the best of them. Part of this is due to the series' tendency to shoot in low light situations, especially some of the dank interiors like Jim and Steve's shabby apartment. When the series ventures out of doors in daylight or gets into more robustly lit environments, things look rather good, with a nicely sharp, well delineated image that provides good if not overwhelming fine detail. The hand held camerawork often adds a perception of softness due to its jiggly, unanchored ambience. Colors are decent, if again never overwhelmingly vivid. There are no overt compression artifacts other than some slight spikes of noise in the darkest scenes.
Legit: The Complete First Season offers a nice sounding DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 mix that nonetheless only really exploits the surrounds consistently in the series' use of source music and occasional ambient environmental effects. This is generally a smaller scale show built out of interchanges between a few characters at a time, and on that level, the 5.1 track may be a bit of overkill. Fidelity is excellent with no issues of any kind to discuss.
- Pilot: Jim Jefferies, Peter O'Fallon and Dan Bakkedahl
- Dreams: Jim Jefferies, Peter O'Fallon and Dan Bakkedahl
- Love: Jim Jefferies, Peter O'Fallon and Dan Bakkedahl
- Anger: Jim Jefferies, Peter O'Fallon and Dan Bakkedahl
- Justice: Jim Jefferies, Peter O'Fallon and Dan Bakkedahl
- Family: Jim Jefferies, Peter O'Fallon and Dan Bakkedahl
- Health: Jim Jefferies, Peter O'Fallon and Dan Bakkedahl
- Hoarders: Jim Jefferies, Peter O'Fallon and Dan Bakkedahl
- Bag Lady: Jim Jefferies, Peter O'Fallon and Dan Bakkedahl
- Cuckoo's Nest: Jim Jefferies, Peter O'Fallon and Dan Bakkedahl
- Hat Hair: Jim Jefferies, Peter O'Fallon and Dan Bakkedahl
- Misunderstood: Jim Jefferies, Peter O'Fallon and Dan Bakkedahl
- Fatherhood: Jim Jefferies, Peter O'Fallon and Dan Bakkedahl
Older viewers of Legit may well be offended by the series' lewder, cruder proclivities, while younger viewers (most probably the show's preferred demographic) may be wondering what the frell is up with all the heartstring tugging the show indulges in. Some of Jefferies' stuff is very funny, but the show tries to please everybody some of the time, rather than appealing to a smaller niche all of the time. This probably won't threaten Louis' reign as the current stand up sitcom champ, but Legit has the potential to be a contender. Recommended.
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