Alison Herman TV Critic More than a decade after the swift cancellation of the underrated show “Enlisted,” Fox has taken another bite at the apple of a broadcast workplace sitcom set within the United States military.
As with its predecessor, the midseason premiere “Going Dutch” counters the global scope of its central employer with the intimate one of immediate family.
What it adds to this shared premise is a long litany of jokes about bikes, tulips, prostitution, bluntness as a cultural value and cheese.
Created by Joel Church-Cooper (“Brockmire”), “Going Dutch” stars Denis Leary — also an executive producer, alongside his son Jack — as Colonel Patrick Quinn, a career officer who finds himself exiled to Stroopsdorf, “the least important army base in the world.” The Netherlands outpost’s bowling alley, laundry facilities and world-class fromagerie are under the interim command of Patrick’s estranged daughter Maggie (Taylor Misiak), who defends her colleagues’ lavender-picking, silent-disco-having ways from her father’s harsh judgement.
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