Tires Season 1 Review

Tires (2024-)
Season 1 - 6 episodes (2024)

Watch Tires on Netflix
Created by: Shane Gillis, Steve Gerben, John McKeever.
Starring: Shane Gillis, Steve Gerben, Chris O'Connor, Kilah Fox, Stavros Halkias
Rated: TV-MA
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Plot
Will, an unqualified heir, attempts to turn his auto repair business around while enduring torment from his now-employee cousin Shane.

Verdict
It's not bad, but it is shallow. This relies on crude jokes and typical story lines. While it's fun to go behind the counter and see how a tire shop is run, this is never as funny or as clever as it needs to be. The juvenile jokes are meant to invoke a reaction more than be actually funny. It's low effort comedy. It feels more like a high quality Youtube series, which in turn makes it a low budget Netflix series.
Skip it.

Review
It's a work place comedy that reminds me of The Jamz. Will (Steve Gerben) is given a tire shop to manage. He's unequipped for the job, with good intentions and no experience. The most unruly employee is his cousin Shane (Shane Gillis). Shane is juvenile and crude, ready to make fun of Will for anything.

This is shallow. It's not really funny, trying to be surprising or shocking instead. This wants to shock you that a character said a line rather than laugh at the line. The first episode leverages equality and inclusion as a way for juvenile characters to make jokes and undermine the idea. It's low effort. Crude jokes are easy, but being offensive isn't the same as being funny. This just wants to invoke a reaction.

Shane Gillis, Steve Gerben play Shane, Will

Work place comedies succeed because they are relatable. In this case we can relate to employees and customers. We understand the frustrations from both sides, and this takes it up a notch with ridiculous situations, employees, and customers. I just wish it was smarter. The funniest moment is when one of the mechanics dies at work and no one realizes it in the second episode.

The running story line in this short season is the store on the verge of going out of business. Based on the show, I don't know how they stay afloat, but that looming possibility drives Will to look for ways to make more money in each episode. While Shane has plenty of ideas, they aren't always viable.

I like the setting of the tire shop. There might be more truth to how it's run that we'd like to believe, but this just isn't funny or clever enough.