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When Imhotep goes to Hamunaptra--the City of the Dead--to revive her, he is stopped by the Pharoah's guards, shorn of his tongue, then wrapped in gauze and buried alive with a swarm of scabrous beetles.
The mood here is a good deal softer: The scabrous nihilism of Taxi Driver is no longer as palatable--or, perhaps, as accurate in its response to the flavor of the times or the mood of its creators--as it was in 1976.
Not only is it full of cursing, ethnic jokes, prostitution, and the like, but it dares to have no laugh track and a bastard as the protagonist: "the show is truly subversive and daring in its scabrous attitude" (Caryn James, the New York Times ). A few minor complaints: 1) The show is "a little in love with its own transgressiveness" (James Poniewozik, Time ). 2) The show relies on "humiliation humor" and Entertainment Weekly 's Ken Tucker predicts that the unlikability of star Jay Mohr will sink the show.