Wexor I really don't get all the hate. What kind of sitcom did you expect?. Most of the sitcoms in the 80,90's and early 00's had this kind of script. Many is against the fact that it's a fat husband and a beautiful wife (as usual) and she sticks to his side whatever he is up to. This was the case in the King of Queens as well, and that show got raised to the skies for being one of a kind and such a excellent show. But it's pretty much the same handling..An average fat American man, married to a beautiful American wife living in an average American house in the suburbs to a major city. They have some kids. A close friend, siblings or other persons that appears occasionally to provide more "action", and the husband makes all the wrong and bad things together with the friend, and the wife always forgives him. Just as in any sitcom pretty much. ATJ is a somewhat funny show, and a good laughter is always nice

M Weiss According to Jim is one of the worst television sitcoms of all time. Actually that doesn't quite go far enough, According to Jim is one of the worst things ever televised period. I have no idea and even if someone from ABC sat me down and walked me through their entire decision making process I'll never understand how a show this bad could possibly be put on television.Jim Belushi is someone I have thought was OK in movies before but he is so completely dreadfully mind numbingly insanely awful in this I couldn't stand watching him for one more torturous second. He plays such an over the top buffoon and seriously we're supposed to believe he married a babe? The writing is pathetic. Week after week the exact same situation plays out. Jim isn't supposed to do something, but he does it anyway, then he and his even more pathetic neighbour friend try to hide that he did it from his wife, then she finds out, then for some reason she forgives him instead of beating his damn head in with a frying pan.It defies logic that anyone can watch this dog's breakfast of a TV show and actually call it any kind of entertainment. This show is evidence of how far western civilization has fallen, that we are dumbed down so much that this show was actually getting enough viewers to come back for eight years and was called a hit! According to Jim was total garbage.We used to have John Belushi and now we're stuck with Jim. People shouldn't be OK with that.

horrorflicklover Of the people I know who don't like this show, it pretty much boils down to them not liking Jim Belushi. That, he was only famous for being John's brother. Well, I don't know or care of how true or false that might be. John Belushi died two years before I was even born, so I owe him no loyalty. Lol.On a more serious note, this show made me laugh. Plain and simple. It didn't necessarily break any new grounds, or pursue any new formula. It just managed to be funny. Yes, Jim's character is a slob, a jerk, an insecure ass**** who needs reassurance. That is what drives a lot of the story lines, and I'm fine with that. But In typical sitcom fashion, he "learns a valuable lesson" in these said story lines to make him more manageable. Courtney Thorne-Smith plays his "long suffering" wife trying to cope with his antics. Yes, we've seen it before. But it was FUNNY. Kim Williams-Paisley plays Jim's SMOKING HOT sister-in-law, and of course those two are largely at odds with each other throughout the series run. But they also show true caring and affection for each other when the time comes. And Larry Joe Campbell plays Jim's best friend and brother-in-law, Andy. He plays the butt of many jokes regarding his luck with women, or for that matter life in general. I have no complaints, all of the main characters appeal to me just fine.One of my favorite story arcs is where Jim is distraught over something regarding his infant son. For instance, his wife allowing him to wear a dress for Halloween. Or his wife buying him a Green Bay Packers football, despite Jim being a HUGE Chicago Bears fan (arch-rivals of the Packers), and hoping to pass that on to his son (like most parents do). This brings in a fantasy segment in which Jim speaks to a teen aged/young adult version of his son regarding the topic at hand. Yes, Jim may be a pompous jerk, an ass-hat, but he doesn't wrap the show up in "his" own viewpoints. There's still a moral, and still a concession made by such an opinionated man.Really though, if you catch this one on TV, watch it. I don't see how Jim Belushi's character on this show is any harder to deal with then Doug Heffernan on King of Queens (who at first, I couldn't stand). It's got laughs, it's got solid plots (even if some aren't the most original), it's got a good time.

elshikh4 Average is what I can call this sitcom with clear conscience. James Belushi is a walking hit. Here he's a man's man, kind of live Homer Simpson, having the magical ability to seduce you with anything bad while sneering superbly at it in the same time too! Courtney Thorne-Smith is my dream of a wife, being the good mom of the 2000s, and a smart comedienne as well. While Kimberly Williams is so funny (loved, for little instance, her way of dancing over Jim's supposed grave), Larry Joe Campbell is the one who dazzles me with his laughable body language, look at his lightness during some of the acrobatic jests he perfect ; just astounding. However, the show's sense of comedy relayed much on the dirty humor (farts, peeing, masturbation, etc..). Sometime it promoted for ideas I didn't like. Let alone that there were what I consider as shocking moments; I can't forget till now the scene in which "real huge spiders" were used to be moving on Andy's back, that freaked me out, and still does. I don't know how in no case they put this horrific shot, but it's obvious how the whole show is for adults, and in kind of cheap way sometimes. At the first seasons the matters were OK though. But it turned into straight bad within the last days of it (or what I wish they would be !). By the seventh season the time became so un-funnily insipid. I couldn't believe the condition of the scripts. Aside from being a step down for the position of the show (which's average in the first place), it's useless material to watch, so how about entertain ?! I can't imagine anyone gives a green light for episodes like the one where Jim was hit by a bull ?? It looks like a lust for cancellation to me ! So, after enjoying half of the time, sometime more than the half, it forced me to save any time I have to watching something better. Finally, 2001 wasn't a lucky year when it came to sitcoms, (Grounded for Life), (The Bernie Mac Show), and (According to Jim) aren't any close to "favorite" for me. Thank god that 2001 got (Scrubs). So, nothing is wholly bad, though (According..) lately became about to !