Ashley Tisdale | Review

• Genre: Mockumentary, Black comedy, Tragicomedy
• Based on: Review with Myles Barlow by Phil Lloyd, Trent O'Donnell
• Developed by: Andy Daly, Jeffrey Blitz, Charlie Siskel
• Directed by: Jeffrey Blitz
• Starring: Andy Daly
• Narrated by: Andy Daly
• No. of seasons: 3
• No. of episodes: 22
• Executive producers: Andy Daly, Jeffrey Blitz, Andy Blitz, Charlie Siskel, Dave Kneebone, Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim
• Running time: 22 minutes
• Production companies: Abso Lutely Productions, Andrew Daly Productions, Blitz Bros
• Network: Comedy Central
• Release: March 6, 2014 – March 30, 2017

The series uses "mockumentary" techniques to depict the fictional, reality television-style adventures of enthusiastic professional critic Forrest MacNeil, who hosts a TV show called Review in which he engages in any life experience his viewers ask him to (to judge if the experience "is any good"). Afterward, Forrest formally rates each life experience in-studio, on a five-star scale. However, Forrest's compulsive curiosity and uncompromising commitment to the show unexpectedly backfire in ways that increasingly impact his own formerly ideal real life.

 

 "Celebrity; Batman"

A viewer who routinely masturbates to celebrities wonders what it would be like to actually have sex with one. Forrest sets out to find one by attending an anti-bullying charity event hosted by Ashley Tisdale and he bids $70,000 to have dinner with her. She ditches him and he mistakes a barfly for one of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and has sex with her instead. He goes to a book reading by a former local broadcaster who has a book about her recently deceased husband. When they have sex, it ends with her sobbing and begging for her husband's ashes. Sleeping with a celebrity is one star. A child asks what it's like being Batman and Forrest dresses the part, but doesn't engage in any crime fighting, only returning shopping carts used by the homeless and agitating a man urinating in public. He is called to his divorce proceedings while in costume and it negatively impacts his negotiations. This reinvigorates him to feel like Batman and he violently assaults a convenience store attendant, rattles a snack free from a vending machine, and kicks intern Josh out of his office, where he has been sleeping. Being Batman is 4 out of 5 stars.