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Talking Bear ‘Ted’ Makes Unwelcome Return as a Half-Hearted Spin on the Family Sitcom: TV Review
Seth MacFarlane's two films about a talking bear get a truncated, half-baked prequel series on Peacock.
As an inciting incident, let alone a premise, this development is rather thin, though it sets up a handful of subplots in which Ted and John stumble through pubescent milestones like buying drugs, acquiring porn and attempting to get laid. Any potential world-building is half-hearted, inconsistent or both: in the pilot, Blaire makes hay of a supposed family curse that’s never mentioned again, while Ted parties with girls in one episode and shows his ignorance of basic female anatomy in the next. As the resident left-leaning co-ed, Blaire acts as the voice of reason, often speaking with a maturity and feminist perspective that seems imported from the present day (or at least outside the MacFarlane extended universe) — not that the ‘90s of it all amounts to more than a few topical gags about “Aladdin” or O.J.
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