Chad
Chad Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | E9 | E10 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 4.2 | 4.1 | 4.7 | 3.9 | 4.3 | |||
| S2 | 7.4 | 6.2 | 7.5 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 7.7 | 7.7 | 7.6 | 7.8 | 7.8 |
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"A grown woman playing a cringing teen boy"
Chad follows a desperately unpopular fourteen-year-old Iranian-American boy, played (in a deliberately jarring choice) by an adult actress, as he schemes his way through freshman year trying to become cool. It's a cringe comedy built entirely around social humiliation and awkward, try-hard scheming rather than plot. The tone is broad, silly, and relentlessly uncomfortable, closer to a live-action cartoon than a grounded coming-of-age story. Whether it lands for you hinges almost entirely on how you feel about the central stunt-casting joke, since the show leans on it in nearly every scene rather than easing off it.
the committed, go-for-broke performance at the center of an unusual casting gimmick.
you find secondhand embarrassment comedy exhausting rather than funny.
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