Roush Review: Last Guy Standing

Tim Allen Even TV comfort food comes with an expiration date. So it's with Tim Allen's comeback vehicle around the network that made him a star.Last Guy Standing (tonight, 8/7c, ABC) is essentially a weary, gender-corrected version of Allen's hit Do It Yourself. Main difference is the fact that this time around, Allen's the only real guy inside a household of women: a lengthy-suffering wife (Nancy Travis, who has a tendency to relax having a glass of vino and smile at her husband's boorish jokes) and three shrill kids, together with a single mother, a spoiled princess along with a tomboy (the second performed by Kaitlyn Dever, who had been so terrific on Justified as scrappy little Loretta and is just one of many talents being wasted here).Want more fall TV news? Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now!When I noted within the Fall Preview problem, "This Based on Tim vehicle will seem like Old Home (Improvement) Week to his legion of fans, however the buzz of nostalgia might be drowned by the yawn of familiarity over this type of hammy retread." Allen has become playing an alternative on Tim Taylor as Irritated Old Guy: this time around known as Mike Baxter, who works best for an outside sports company that reeks of testosterone. Or, as Mike announces with pride when he walks in to the office: "It has the aroma of balls in here."Mothballs, maybe. (Although in comparison to ABC's other "woe is guy" show it's being combined with in a few days, the intolerable Guy Up!, this feels as though a contemporary classic.)Rather than getting a Television show which to spout his gems of chauvinist knowledge, Mike is defined responsible for the business's website, where he rails in very extreme webcam close-facing various metrosexual "What went down to males?" offenses: citrus body clean, herbal hair gel, tanning beds, even soccer as "Europe's covert war for that hearts and minds of America's kids." Leading edge it isn't, but that is not what this make of middlebrow mugging is about.As you of his kids states within the second of tonight's back-to-back episodes, "He's just angry because ... we actually have no idea why." And it is virtually impossible of looking after, since we have heard everything before, also it was more amusing and fresher to begin with.Sign up to TV Guide Magazine now!