TV: Halfway Home

PHOTO: MARC LECUREUIL, COURTESY OF COMEDY CENTRAL

The formula behind Comedy Central’s new series Halfway Home is simple: put a bunch of ex-cons in a residential mental rehabilitation facility, sit back, and wait for hilarity to ensue. And ensue it does, as we meet five “semi-hardened parolees,” sentenced to live together at an L.A. halfway home called Crenshaw House, where the house supervisor (played by Groundling’s member Kevin Ruf) attempts to reform patients that range from a former male prostitute, to a would-be terrorist (who, in reality, is just another privileged kid from California), to a pyromaniac. Halfway Home is like a season of The Real World gone horribly, horribly awry - in a good way. Tune in Wednesdays at 10:30 p.m. beginning March 14th.
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