After watching the first season of Meet the Browns, I wondered who was watching the show. It turns out the answer to that question makes a lot of sense: not too many people. Its current rating of roughly 1.2 million viewers per episode on TBS is the kind of number almost every other station would cancel a show for. On top of that, the quality of the writing and the acting warrant Meet the Browns being canceled a second time on top of that. There is a notable improvement in the comedy since the first season’s very inane and simplistic comedy, but the acting and direction void any increase in quality in writing. Meet the Browns remains pegged as the worst sitcom on television and it’s going to take quite a bit for it to ever climb out of that hole.
This time around, Meet the Browns sees its unfortunate, bumbling, uneducated African-American stereotype Leroy Brown (David Mann) making all the same verbal blunders as he attempts to start a barbeque sauce company, experiences the twisted world of Botox injections, makes servants of his residents through pity, launches a neighborhood watch group, and undergoes a safety check. All of this happens in line with Leroy’s shrill shouting as Denise Boutte and Lamman Rucker play the young couple intent on keeping sanity around.
DVD Bonus Features
Once again there are no extras despite the fact that Tyler Perry’s DVD releases for House of Payne were typically loaded. This probably has a lot to do with the show’s steady decline in ratings since its debut, making the creation of extras a less sensible expenditure.
"Meet the Browns: Season 2" is on sale October 4, 2011 and is not rated. Comedy. Directed by Alfonso Ribeiro, Kim Fields, Tyler Perry. Written by Tyler Perry, Anthony C. Hill, Joseph Hampton. Starring David Mann, Denise Boutte, Lamman Rucker.
