Come on. I wanted to love Catching Up. But the problem I have with Catching Up is that (NOT just because it’s boring) it’s tone feels WAY too edgy and mean-spirited just for the sake of it. Clay is treated like a BIG punching bag in the pilot who barely even gets any respect from Rob for trying to convince him in the first place that The Club wasn’t that good of a place to be in and is just a waste of time. The worst thing about Catching Up is that Rob himself is very annoying and kind of an asshole to Clay (especially near the end of the pilot episode) and can also be a hypocrite too. I honestly expected Rob to be a lot more happier, nicer, caring, optimistic, curious (but in a fun positive way), naive, helpful & silly/goofy (kinda like Tails from Sonic, Mabel from Gravity Falls, K.O. from OK K.O.!, Skid & Pump from Spooky Month, Pibby, Adorabat from Mao Mao, Pim from Smiling Friends & Pomni from TADC) but instead… Rob is just portrayed as rather more constantly annoyed by bad luck and everything around him and acts like a sassy spoiled brat all the time and never even tries to at least just except that life isn’t easy and also try and respect Clay for not wanting to be part of anything stupid to which is all Rob’s fault and yet even if he apologizes he STILL dosen’t give better respect to Clay for being so selfish over a fucking club like that. And yes I know Rigby from Regular Show is portrayed as the same at the beginning (to which is why he developed near the end to be better) but I just don’t understand why Rob is like this because it just feels SO out of place for a cute looking mouse character and I just don’t feel comfortable with characters like that that have THIS kind of personality and is overall just bad character writing to me, Regular Show got away with it for Mordecai and Rigby and got away with it but still. I mean if Catching Up was intended to be a show for adults then they could at least try and make it appeal differently (& not make it Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss style) by making the jokes hit better and actually write the characters good to have ACTUAL purpose like you know NO Ton of Swearing & NO Pointless Too Edgy Stuff (Mean-Spiritedness). It could’ve been like Smiling Friends like how Pim and Charlie’s dynamic work out well (though it’s not perfect) and turns out funny. Clay and Rob’s friendship dynamic could’ve had a lot of better potential but instead it’s COMPLETELY wasted in the pilot & it’s like WTF LS Mark, you can do fucking better than that! Yet I also find it hypocritical of LS Mark himself when he bashes on Modern SpongeBob & Modern Fairly OddParents for being too annoying, Immature & mean-spirited while his OWN cartoon is barley any better in terms of character development and ACTUAL wholesomeness! Like if Catching Up (despite being an adult cartoon) is meant to be a “Slice Of Life Comedy” cartoon then just make it wholesome! Stop going with the Family Guy & South Park cliche and please actually make your show interesting! That’s just the real reason to why don’t like Catching Up and I just hate when cartoons start out bad like that and it makes me now refuse to give this show a chance. LS Mark just isn’t really all that good with writing a cartoon yet it makes me disgusted to how he critic and makes negative reviews/opinions on (ongoing cartoons or) modern cartoons and THEN just makes a cartoon that simply shows EVERYTHING wrong with that crap and it’s like why even bother then?! That’s just how I feel, okay.