The Great Indoors

The Great Indoors

2016
The Great Indoors
The Great Indoors

The Great Indoors

6.2 | TV-PG | en | Comedy

An adventure reporter must adapt to the times when he becomes the boss to a group of millennials in the digital department of the magazine.

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Seasons & Episodes

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EP22  The Company Retreat
May. 08,2017
The Company Retreat

At the magazine’s notoriously carnal company retreat, feelings resurface between Jack and Brooke as they work together to help Clark finally hook up with Emma – the same way they did five years ago. Also, Roland asks Jack to lead the staff in his absence after he accepts a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to return to field reporting.

EP21  Roland's Secret
May. 01,2017
Roland's Secret

Jack gets caught up in Roland and Brooke’s family drama when they both enlist his help to keep bombshells about their love lives from each other.

EP20  The Heartbreaker
Apr. 27,2017
The Heartbreaker

Jack sets up a double date to get Eddie out of a post-divorce rut, but the night gets awkward when they run into Eddie’s ex-wife. Also, when Emma decides to breakup with her boyfriend, Greg, Clark is torn between making a move on her and salvaging his friendship with Greg.

EP19  Ricky Leaks
Apr. 13,2017
Ricky Leaks

When Jack insults Ricky, the magazine’s I.T. manager, the “techspert” exacts his revenge by leaking office emails that cause the staff to turn on each other.

EP18  Party Paul
Apr. 06,2017
Party Paul

When Jack takes Brooke’s fiancé, Paul, and Roland out on the town to improve their lukewarm relationship, his plan backfires when Paul gets tipsy and goes missing.

EP17  Cubicles
Mar. 30,2017
Cubicles

When Jack can’t concentrate because of the millennials’ distracting juvenile behavior, Brooke installs cubicles in the bullpen.

EP16  Aaron Wolf
Mar. 27,2017
Aaron Wolf

Jack watches the millennials’ journalistic integrity slip away when they fall under the spell of his nemesis, Aaron Wolf, a former magazine staffer turned famous outdoor reality TV host who returns to guest edit the magazine.

EP15  Relationship Jack
Mar. 09,2017
Relationship Jack

When Jack fixates on his relationship with Rachel to the detriment of the magazine and his friends, Eddie and Roland try to break him of his obsession habit. Also, as Jack’s work suffers, Clark steps up to lead the staff and displays a surprising amount of self-confidence.

EP14  Friends Like These
Feb. 23,2017
Friends Like These

Jack desperately begs his co-workers to pretend to be his closest friends at a dinner party after his lack of an inner circle begins to concern his girlfriend, Rachel.

EP13  DTR
Feb. 16,2017
DTR

When Jack dates a millennial to avoid commitment, he needs Clark, Emma and Mason’s help to keep up with his new girlfriend, Kaylie, and her exhausting lifestyle.

EP12  Paul's Surprise
Feb. 09,2017
Paul's Surprise

When jealousy prompts Jack to insult Brooke’s fiancé, Paul, at the couple’s re-engagement party, he makes things worse by repeatedly botching his apology. Also, the millennials squabble over their job hierarchy when they can’t decide who should take point on creating a slideshow for the party.

EP11  Mason Blows Up
Jan. 19,2017
Mason Blows Up

Jack tries to reassert his dominance as a reporter after Mason scores an investigative coup that turns him into an overnight celebrity. Also, Clark's low self-esteem causes him to give Emma relationship advice about other guys.

EP10  The Explorers' Club
Jan. 12,2017
The Explorers' Club

When Mather, the president of the Chicago Adventure Society, accuses Roland of faking the story of the expedition that made his career, Jack, Brooke and the millennials team up to clear his name. Also, Clark is dumbfounded when he notices that Jack seeks Mather’s approval the same way he seeks Jack’s,

EP9  The Mediocre Outdoors
Jan. 05,2017
The Mediocre Outdoors

Jack tests the Millennials’ survival skills when he takes them camping for the first time and leaves them alone in the woods without their smartphones.

EP8  Office Romance
Dec. 15,2016
Office Romance

Jack regrets convincing Human Resources to toss out a "no inter-office dating" rule when he needs an excuse to break up with his co-worker, Amy. Also, Mason closes in on uncovering Jack and Brooke's romantic history.

EP7  @emma
Dec. 08,2016
@emma

When Emma quits after being turned down for a raise, Jack and Roland become the magazine’s newest and worst ever social media managers. Also, in a misguided attempt to boost business, Eddie re-brands his bar as “magic-themed.”

EP6  Going Deep
Dec. 01,2016
Going Deep

When Jack is clueless about how to help Eddie through the pain of his divorce, Brooke steps up to be Eddie’s interim best friend. Also, a colossal secret comes out when Clark, Emma and Mason battle each other in a fitness tracker challenge to win concert tickets.

EP5  No Bad Ideas
Nov. 24,2016
No Bad Ideas

Human Resources forbids Jack from giving his staff any feedback at all after he crushes Clark with a brutally honest performance review. Also, Emma and Mason call out Brooke for being politically incorrect when they try to help her hire a diverse intern.

EP4  You Don't Know Jack
Nov. 17,2016
You Don't Know Jack

The Millennials discover a huge secret about Jack’s love life when they clean out his decades-old storage unit. Also, Clark and Mason use Jack’s memorabilia to throw an epic ‘90s-themed party at Eddie’s bar.

EP3  Step One: Shelter
Nov. 10,2016
Step One: Shelter

Jack faces the ultimate test of his survival skills when he’s forced to crash at Clark’s tiny apartment while he searches for a place of his own. Also, Roland sticks Brooke with telling the millennials their beloved office perks are being taken away due to budget cuts.

EP2  Dating Apps
Nov. 03,2016
Dating Apps

Clark, Emma and Mason try to help Jack create a profile of himself for an online dating app after his first attempt is disastrous.

EP1  Pilot
Oct. 27,2016
Pilot

In the series opener, we find Jack, a renowned adventure reporter transitioning to the role of a desk bound boss, overseeing a team of twentysomething journalists, after the founder of an outdoor magazine he works for decides to go to a web only publication.

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6.2 | TV-PG | en | Comedy | More Info
Released: 2016-10-27 | Released Producted By: CBS Productions , Tire Fire Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website: http://cbs.com/shows/the-great-indoors
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An adventure reporter must adapt to the times when he becomes the boss to a group of millennials in the digital department of the magazine.

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Joel McHale , Stephen Fry , Susannah Fielding

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studioAT A well written sitcom with a decent cast. Of course it only lasted the one series! it didn't stand a chance.I thought this show was OK. It was never going to rival 'Big Bang Theory' in terms of appeal or ratings, but it was easy going enough viewing, and had some decent laughs per episode. It also had Stephen Fry, who rarely turns up in rubbish. It just sadly didn't touch that all important nerve with critics or viewers that it needed to.It didn't last beyond its first year, but American networks are so much harder to please.It is worth a watch though.
jdoneagain It's a different take on an old concept - generations collide, etc. But, face it, it's current. It's something that a lot of us over age 30 have to deal with - changing technologies and we wonder how in the heck we're supposed to stay up to speed with them. Heck, I'm an IT guy - and have been for 20+ years. I LOVE technology. I've explored new stuff, though usually on the back-end. (The servers that host the stuff, the networks that keep them connected, etc.) But, I don't tweet. *gasp*The characters are fun, the concepts don't go all that deep, but it's some lighthearted fare that is good for some laughs. I've found myself laughing out loud at some of the jokes, and Joel McHale is rocking it.
Charles Herold (cherold) There are certain comedic concepts that lazy joke writers love. These involve things like mothers-in-law warring with daughters-in-law or residents of Alabama trailer parks marrying their sisters. They require no cleverness or originality, just a knowledge of how such jokes are structured and the ability to recall previous jokes and change them around a little.The Great Indoors is a show that always goes for the easy, obvious laugh. It's the sort of show that, even when you do laugh - which happens rarely - you don't enjoy the laugh that much, because you've already laughed at that joke hundreds of times before.The premise is simple. A macho, outdoorsy writer is forced to take an office job amongst callow millennials. He teaches them something about "real life" and they teach himself about the "modern world."The first thing I find odd about this series is that the clueless old guy is a Gen-Xer. I know a lot of Gen-Xers, and many live on their iPhones, texting and tweeting and posting selfies on Instagram. I feel the character is more like a Baby Boomer; it would make a lot more sense if the part was played by Robert DeNiro. Although I'm a Baby Boomer and look, I'm using the Internet! The portrayal of Millenials makes me think of elderly comedians on stage going, "man, these kids today with their podcasts and their hip-hop, what's up with them?" It's as though the series is written by aliens who have simply read some joke books but have never actually met any humans.This is not to say that there aren't young people are technologically adept but a little clueless, or that there aren't fortysomethings who lives have not intersected much with technology. The problem is not showing such characters, but in acting as though these characters aren't individuals but are rather generational archetypes. I was ready to give up after one episode, but then I happened to see that a couple of people on the IMDb message board for this series said that episode 2 was so much better. This turned out to be untrue; perhaps it was the writers trying to save their show. If so, they put more work into IMDb than they did in writing their jokes.
mauro volvox As someone else mentioned, the main character is almost an exact copy of Tim Allen's Last Man Standing.But, the show has another approach and another focus.It is really good to see someone make fun of the so-called millennials, their "safe spaces", their need for "diversity", and medals and trophies not for winning but for "trying their best"and all that brain washing called political correctness ...I wonder whether all that whining and these these over-sensitive easily- offended brain-washed gender-repressed cry-babies could accomplish anything such as putting men on the moon.