It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia review
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Five years ago Rob MacElhenni with Charlie Day and Glenn Houerton spent a whole two hundred dollars, most of which went to the tapes to the camcorder to film a pilot episode. After that, friends started to send it through various channels. FX liked the idea, the channel asked to reshoot the pilot with more than decent budget, moving the action from Los Angeles to Philadelphia. Then, few could have predicted that over the next years series will find a dedicated group of fans, will be one of the most popular channel programs, would create five seasons and not think, rest on its laurels.
Mac (MacElhenni), Dennis (Houerton) and Charlie (Day) - co-owners of an Irish pub in bad quarter in Philadelphia. Deandra (Caitlin Olsen), sister of Dennis also works in a bar. Unlike other similar places these people do not put the main task of making a profit.
Frankly, they have any sort of goals at all. They have opened a pub only in order to make it easier to pick up girls. Everyone of them has his own giant cockroaches in head: Dennis - handsome with an unimaginable scale conceit; Mac - chief and ringleader with parents, to whom it is better not approach within gunshot; Charlie - absolutely crazy dude, who does all the dirty work that others call "the work of Charlie." With the second season the quartet joined Danny DeVito as Frank, nonbiological father of Dennis and Deandra who loves to boast that he had been in Vietnam, but forgot to add that there he was in the nineties, trying to earn at a garment factory.
The early years the series lived contrary to the predictions of imminent death. The budget of the first season was miserable four hundred thousand, and after all, and pumped up the ratings, the channel was considering closing. But the authors were able to pull in their offspring DeVito, who agreed to be filmed, but because his children are fans of the series. And, perhaps, namely from the second season the project has found its face.
Technically, the series is unlikely to offer something, but the actors’ works are command respect. Often it may seem that the show is based on improvisation, though there is just the opposite. Actors are so fused with their roles, now they are very difficult to present in other roles.
To date, we have five seasons. Judging by the ratings, FX, is unlikely to be decided on the closure, because "It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia" - one of those rare cases where with each subsequent episode the series continues to gain momentum.