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Call Me Fitz 3.6

Dustin Milligan, Paula Brancati. Great idea for a story, with top notch execution and several laugh out loud moments. There were some great Josh scenes in this one, such as when he showed up on campus with a gun (I can’t believe they did that). 10/10

Call Me Fitz 3.5

Joanna Cassidy. Very funny ideas here and the story resolves very clever. Plus: The brilliant Gabrielle Miller being super sexy as Melody Gray tries (unsuccessfully!) to seduce Fitz. This story arc is really getting better with each episode. 10/10

Call Me Fitz 3.4

Stefne Mercedes. Veers a bit too close to outright silliness sometimes, with regulars running around as “Ethnic Man”, but the rest is razor-sharp with the musical montage at the end (“Welcome To My World” performed by Royal Wood) being the highlight. 8/10

Call Me Fitz 3.3

Don Allison. Very funny and completely insane. One of their best-ever stories. And there are some great one-liners in both the a-story and b-story. Show is much better with three lead characters. They are such a great team. 10/10

Call Me Fitz 2.8

Hospital. Some amazing one-liners (the sort that make you go: “Huh? Did I really hear that right?”) in an funny episode that keeps the cast together most of the time, and consequently really drives home what a horrendous, dysfunctional bunch they truly are. Horrible, horrible people. But very funny to observe. 9/10

Call Me Fitz 2.1

Prophecy. In many ways, shows like this are a successor to shows like The Slap Maxwell Story from the ’80s, in that you have an ostensibly dislikeable main character who you end up liking despite all the horrible things they do. In shows like this casting is paramount. And you really can’t get better than Jason Priestley if you want to make your main character someone the audience will cheer for. No matter what.

This opener finds our hero in more dire straits than usual, and there’s the start of a mysterious new story arc… 9/10

Call Me Fitz 1.13

Maria del Mar. Very inventive and exciting finale, with many big laughs. Utterly delightful, really. 10/10

Is Richard Fitzpatrick the most degenerate, reprehensible lead…

Is Richard Fitzpatrick the most degenerate, reprehensible lead character we’ve ever had in a TV series?

Call Me Fitz 1.8

Phyllis Ellis. Hysterically funny, fiendishly clever way to end the story arc. Jaw-droppingly offensive. Pure genius. When I wasn’t laughing uncontrollably, I was just sitting back with a goofy grin on my face: unable to completely process everything I was seeing. 10/10