Until today, nobody knew I watched Cavemen except my husband, and he makes me watch it when he’s out of town. Maybe my dirty secret has something to do with the fact that I love fuzzy dudes. Not quite as much as A Bear’s Life subscribers, but I do have a year-round campaign for my man to grow a beard. Still, I enjoy escaping into easy-joke land after all the other heaviness on TV this year. Perhaps it’s just my fetish talking, but I don’t understand all the hate.
Yes, a concept from a television commercial seems like a horrible idea, and there was all that neg talk about the pilot having to be re-worked over and over. And yes the show is on ‘hiatus’, which is probably just code for, ‘We’re not canceling it until we know how much this writers strike is going to screw us.’ But come on! Joel, Nick and Andy are adorably unaffected and I love this idea of an alternate reality where cavemen (and maybe even dinosaurs!) live among us but not in a frightening Land of the Lost kind of way. The jokes about ‘all cavemen looking alike’ and the guys working against the man at the local Scandinavian furniture store….All right fine, so it’s weak. But you’re going to be begging for it come January when all we’ve got are shows like this.