Imaginary Mary

Imaginary Mary is a short-lived American live-action CGI-animated hybrid fantasy sitcom that ran from March 29 to May 30, 2017 premiering after Goldberg's other better series, The Goldbergs. It was created and executive produced by Adam F. Goldberg, David Guarascio, and Patrick Osborne. The production companies were Sony Pictures Television/Happy Madison Productions/21 Laps Entertainment/ABC Studios. The series was greenlighted on May 12, 2016, and a first look trailer was made the same day. On September 28, 2016, the series episodes was reduced from 13 to 9.

On March 29, 2017, the series offically premiered, but due to largely negative reviews, it was cancelled two months later.

Plot
One day, Alice's imaginary puppet friend from childhood, Mary, reappears, and it just so happened to be when she falls in love with a single father of three children. With nothing to know, Mary ends up guiding her...or rather, misguiding her.

Why It's A Bad Dream

 * 1) Mary, Alice's imaginary friend gives Alice bad advice, such as to run from Ben, which isn’t going to happen. She is also unfunny and ill-advised.
 * 2) The show feels like it's made up of pieces from several different jigsaw puzzles, the tabs jammed into the blanks with zero regard for compatibility.
 * 3) The show also feels most often like a family sitcom that is haunted by its own flawed idea, personified by a mostly cute but sometimes terrifying white-and-blue creature who usually has really bad advice. It also demonstrates how a screwy concept can defeat a charming cast.
 * 4) Elfman could've used more help from the writers, who present Alice as stressing out over child care and behaving in bewildering ways.
 * 5) Mary's old face was ugly and awful.
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 * 1) "Sleep Over" ended the show atrociously, even though it wasn't meant to be a series finale.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Good acting, as the main cast is better than Mary.
 * 2) The CGI animation for Mary is okay.
 * 3) At least Adam F. Goldberg tried to make something new.
 * 4) At least Mary's design was improved to make her look much better than her original design.
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Reception
The series received extremely negative reception from critics. On Metacritic, the show has a 39 out of 100 based off 13 critics, showing the unfavorable reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes, the show has a 26% approval rating, based off 19 reviews, and has the rating of 3.77/10. The site's critical consensus was the following: "Imaginary Mary's appealing cast is canceled out by uninspired material and a ridiculous premise whose deficiencies are compounded by an unfunny, ill-advised CGI creature." All of the episodes themselves received extremely awful reception, with the worst rated episode being the final episode, "Sleep Over". Due to all of the bad reception, ABC ended up canning the show entirely, only 1 season and 9 episodes in.