It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
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Our Review
The longest running flesh and blood sitcom in American history, and the only one where every single character is a sociopath. The Gang. Charlie the rat stabbing illiterate, Dennis the implied serial killer, Mac the repressed zealot, Dee the punching bag, and Frank the human id in dirty cutoffs, run Paddy’s Pub and scheme their way through Philadelphia like a five person race to the moral bottom.
Seventeen plus seasons in, it’s still the meanest, funniest thing on TV because the writers figured out the cheat code: the Gang can never learn, never grow, never win. Episodes like The Nightman Cometh, The D.E.N.N.I.S. System, and the Mac Finds His Pride dance (an unbroken five minute modern piece that came out of nowhere) show a show that can do anything it wants inside its own nastiness.
Verdict: Watch it. Start anywhere, it has no continuity to speak of, just an endless supply of the worst people alive.
