The Afterparty

I struggled to finish the first episode of this train wreck. Marketed as a comedy/crime/mystery. There is no crime/mystery here. It's all comedy and none of is is funny. This is network tv stupid silly sitcom levels of humor. There is not one likable character in the bunch. The lead female detective is the most annoying irritating one of them all. The story is so bare bones it could barely fill out a movie much less an episodic ongoing series. I never laughed once in the entire 1st episode. This might of worked if the lead detective wasn't so horribly miscast and the comedy toned down to a less corny silly subtle humor. Is it woke, of course. Every DEI box gets checked. Black, Asian, Indian and a couple characters I'm pretty sure will turn out to be gay if I wanted to suffer a couple more episodes to confirm. The black male character is obsessed with the mixed Asian/white female. The lead detective is a black female who is naturally brilliant and her incompetent idiot white male partner. She is acts and talks straight out of the ghetto and couldn't be more unprofessional. If you look at the cast list it is dominated by even more DEI characters than I saw in the first episode so I'm sure it gets worse as it continues.