Scott D. Pierce: The whole foundation of “Flatch” is making fun of the people who live in small towns. Even if the makers of the new mock-documentary sitcom say it isn't.
Sam Straley, left, as Shrub and Holmes as Kelly in "Welcome to Flatch."The producers and stars of the new Fox comedy “Welcome to Flatch” insist they love small towns and the people who live in them. And that they’d never, ever do anything to make fun of them.
“To me, people in small towns represent what we all should be aiming for,” she told TV critics in an online press conference. “I mean, the humanity of a small town and the empathy needed to live in a small town is what [executive producer/director] Paul [Feig] and I really wanted to capture. So I was not going to do it if there was going to be any kind of making fun.”Don’t get me wrong. “Welcome to Flatch” is a rather amusing sitcom. It’ll make you smile, and there are laugh-out-loud moments.
That’s about the size of Utah towns like Duchesne, East Carbon, Genola, Moroni and Woodland Hills. And chances are residents of those towns would take offense if a real documentary about them included one of their residents saying this: “We are an upstanding town and we deserve some damn attention,” says Big Mandy . “We got TWO restaurants — one with menus. And last year someone gave birth to twins, so now we got young people all over the place.
“I think it came from, like, when the pioneer ladies would throw things at their kids,” she says. “Wait — or the Indians. You can look it up.” They’ve both had some trauma in their lives, but there’s no denying they often act like idiots. Joseph “Father Joe” Binghoffer , who recently moved from Minneapolis to take over the local protestant church in Flatch, tries — with little success — to rein them in.
And Kelly’s frenemy Nadine Garcia-Parney , runs the Flatch historical society and guards that outhouse. “Just to think — one whole town just started with one little hole,” she says. “It gives me chills to think about it.”
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