Tires (season 1)

In Season 1 of Tires, a Netflix sitcom, Will (Steve Gerben), the anxious and unqualified heir to his father’s struggling Valley Forge Automotive Center, attempts to revitalize the auto repair business. His efforts are constantly undermined by his cousin Shane (Shane Gillis), a mischievous employee who torments Will with pranks and crude humor. As Will tries to implement ideas like a women’s empowerment initiative and a bikini car wash to boost sales, the shop faces financial woes and the threat of closure. With the help of coworkers Cal, Kilah, and Dave, Will and Shane navigate chaotic schemes and personal clashes, ultimately pulling together to save the business in a six-episode arc filled with blue-collar comedy and workplace antics.

Tires Review (season 1)

Tires isn’t precisely a retread of other single-camera sitcoms, but it’s certainly familiar territory. While it doesn’t begin to gain full traction until its close, the show’s direction is clear and promises more and deeper laughs in the future.

                   

Stars Shane Gillis and Steve Gerben, who also share co-creator credits, have a comfort with one another that clearly comes from their decade-long friendship and creative collaboration. Giving what might otherwise come across as harsh barbs a wink-and-a-nod softness, their chemistry as much as their throwback humor, provides the season with its secret sauce.

Not exactly a complex show, Tires’ episodic/serial hybrid format gives audiences as much of a needed break from the last decade’s fumbling over reliance on long-form storytelling as its refreshing and distinctly Shane Gillis sensibilities do from the overly serious and pretentiously overwrought-yet underdeveloped offerings that we’ve been subjected to over the same period.

If you need a laugh and you like Shane Gillis, make Tires your next streaming choice. It’s Worth it.

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