My Thoughts

Ok so I am a Tyler Perry fan but his new show House of Payne is not very good so far. I am not sure where to start with what I think is wrong with this show, maybe I’ll start with the actors. While I know that Mr. Perry wants to give some of the folks who helped him get to where is today a shot, I don’t think the lead characters of Mom and Pop Payne LaVan Davis and Cassie Davis are not coming across on the small screen very well. They seem to talk to loud and their acting to seems to me to be a bit exasperated. I think they are having a time adjusting from acting on the stage to the acting on TV. Next we have the Mr. and Mrs. Payne’s son who I think adds no value to the show and needs some work on his acting as well. Now we have the kids, the little girl just doesn’t appear to be acting to me but more like she’s trying to remember her lines or like she’s reading but on a positive note the little boy seems to be a natural on the camera and with a few acting classes I think he will do well. Lastly, we have our veteran actor Mr. Allen Payne I don’t if it’s the bad acting that surrounds him but he is not coming across all that good in this show and believe me I have been an Allen Payne fan(G-Money) since his days as Lance on the Cosby show.

Ok so that’s the acting now the writing, the story development is lacking I can’t see how a married mother of 2 young children being on crack can be made funny. I don’t see the comedy in this situation at all but aside from that the story line of the few (3 shows) that I have seen just don’t flow, I mean when CJ (Allen Payne (I)) finally decides to go look for his wife after having worked all day at the firehouse, he finds her in a crack house. He doesn’t seem to upset but he tries to muster up some sadness and concern in his voice when he asks her to come home. She instead chooses the crack dealer. He seems sad but in the next episode he doesn’t seem to be bothered by the fact that his wife is a drug addict who has chosen to abandon him and their children. I don’t get it and the add further insult to injury, the son is making jokes and light of the fact that his mom is drug addict by making jokes with his cousin. I don’t get it.

Hopefully this show will get a much needed overhaul like “A Different World” did. But I don’t see it being much of hit, let alone, a crossover hit, if it continues on the same path that it is on.

This is just the humble opinion of one viewer.