No Activity

Smart, odd and assured, No Activity strengthens an already decent case for expanding your discretionary television spending.

The first CBS All Access comedy may not break new ground, but it handles its simple premise with earnestness and enthusiasm. There’s something to be said for getting the basics so very right.

Everyone seems to be down to their last nerve here. No Activity might have that same effect on you.

Ffor the most part, each episode is like listening to a half-hour of stoners talking with each other. Against the odds, it becomes pretty funny after a while. ... But as the platform’s first original comedy, it should be stronger, better defined.

For the most part, No Activity plays like one of those “bro” comedies where the guys in charge, entering a superannuated adolescence, hope a hipster veneer will disguise a very lowbrow puerile comic sensibility. It makes “Two and a Half Men” look like “Frasier.”