It is easy to be negative about this show. There are some glaring faults, especially in early episodes, that make Spun Out difficult to enjoy. However, the show does have some genuinely funny moments and some of the cast do give strong performances that elevate the humour and bring some needed depth to the show.I'll deal with the negative elements first. The main office set feels like a set. Lots of sitcoms have that problem, there's no way to completely hide it, but you usually are able to forget it. This set you just can't do that. The writing needs to tighten up it's focus. There is rarely a main story to an episode and the cast are divided up into two or three unrelated stories. The show would benefit from allowing itself to focus on one story and allow cast members to sometimes play smaller roles for an episode instead of giving nearly everyone equal time. On the positive side, some of the cast are great. Dave Foley and Holly Deveaux stand out and help bring out better performances from their co-stars. This is most obvious with Rebecca Dalton, who, despite looking nothing like Foley, seems totally natural as his daughter and has genuine rapport with Deveaux. But she has little chemistry with Paul Campbell, especially early on. Campbell has grown into his role, but early on he really did struggle with the focus the show put on his character. Al Mukadam is solid and clearly enjoys it when he's allowed to go a little over the top.The writing can be genuinely funny and occasionally heart-warming. But it does lack consistency which I believe is due to it trying to force comedy over narrative. Of course the goal is to make us laugh, but sometimes a sitcom needs to back away from that and allow itself time to develop it's characters. Spun Out can do that and is stronger when it does.

I tried really hard to like this movie and I really did want to be able to say that I liked it and that it is finally a good Canadian comedy series that is well made but I just can't do that because I would just be telling a lie.This show is such a huge mess it is ridiculous, and an unfunny mess to boot. I don't even know where to begin about it since everything is so wrong.The cast is the main thing, so many completely unfunny people telling jokes very poorly. The only recognizable one is Dave Foley (of Kids in the Hall fame) and he looks like he's probably embarrassed to be seen in this (and he should be). I hope he fires his agent and finds a new one that will get him in A Bug's Life 2.

Let's first talk about what they did right. At least it looks like an American sitcom as far as technical aspect go. This is actually important, the American sitcom is a proved business model so if you want success start by not trying to reinvent the wheel. When you use cheap sets and bad lighting, sound, shooting (i.e. Satisfaction) it lends itself to being very hackneyed. Where Spun Out fails is in the writing and acting. From what I was able to discern from watching three episodes is that the character Nelson Abrams is playing a gay man. In many respects, this is the most homophobic portrayal of a gay man on TV. My reasoning is the only thing that makes this character gay is he say's "I'm" gay. Either the actor refuses to do anything "gay" on TV or the writers have never actually met a gay man. One episode had his supposed significant other completely obscured by a massive completely unreasonably large Karaoke trophy. In this same episode this gay character is worried about a female co-worker spending too much time with his significant other. Worried the same way a guy would be worried if his gal was spending a lot of time with another man. I don't know if these guys know how it works, but gay guys don't worry if their boyfriend is hanging around chicks. I'm not the first to say this, but who the hell are the people green lighting comedies this year? Do they not realize that there are so many amazing comedy writers that are waiting to hitch a ride south of the border? Stand-up comics are not always good at writing and neither are people who have resumes that feature the number of TV commercials they've been in.

No one loves this show. The glowing reviews on here are insider comments posted by people involved with the program. Those reviews remind me of when Wile E Coyote would pop open a tiny umbrella to shield himself from falling boulders...they are a hopeless attempt to stem the coming avalanche of punishing reviews. Please don't accept my 1 star rating as anything on the positive side of the scale. This is without a doubt the worst show I have ever seen on TV, and I'm including Bumper Stumpers and Definition. And it's not just me...the whole family sat in stunned silence as this wreck slowly burned in front of us. The only laughs we had came from reading the reviews we scrambled to find after the show. We just HAD to make sure we weren't being slowly poisoned by carbon monoxide and somehow lost our senses during the broadcast...the myriad of devastating reviews confirmed we were out of danger.Don't avoid this show. Watch an episode and give yourself delicious fodder for ripping this thing to pieces with family and friends.