It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia breaks its 2 year long wait with an extremely high Rotten Tomatoes Score

The longest-running live-action sitcom on American Television is back for its seventeenth season, and it appears critics find It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 17 one of the best from the show in recent years. A 100% Rotten Tomatoes (albeit with 6 critic reviews only) for the two premiere episodes of the season seems to show early positive signs for this season.

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia premiered with two episodes on July 9, titled 'The Gang F***s Up Abbott Elementary' and 'Frank is in a coma'. The early critic reviews for the two episodes paint a positive picture of the cult show.

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 17 debuts with a perfect early Rotten Tomatoes score

It's Sunny in Philadelphia Season 17 premieres with the first two episodes and proves that the show is in its seventeenth season because the creators, writers, and actors never stop challenging themselves to create something just as good, if not better. The commitment to dirtbag and absurd comedy is as strong as ever.

The first episode, titled 'The Gang F***s Up Abbott Elementary', handles the Abbott Elementary and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia crossover from the gang's perspective. The episode synopsis reads:

"Months after the Gang visited, Abbott's Principal Ava walks viewers through some of the unseen footage of the Gang's volunteerism and reveals their true intentions."

The It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia episode manages to deliver many well-hitting jokes, along with some different, darker aspects of the Abbott Elementary teachers, especially Quinta Brunson's cursing and violence, which was a whole new side to the second-grade teacher. The Fandom Wire review of this episode contributes to the great Rotten Tomatoes score for this episode:

"With the no-holds-barred approach, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia allows its guest stars to really shake up our perception of them. The cast of Abbott Elementary gets to shine in ways they cannot on network television."

The second episode, titled "Frank is in a coma," is a stand-alone episode where Frank is on his deathbed, or is he? Charlie, Dennis, and Mac attend a gala hoping to find a rich investor for Paddy's Pub. Instead of achieving this goal, they meet Alex Wolff as a rich heir who takes them partying. The episode synopsis reads:

"The five stages of grief set in for Dee as Frank lies on his deathbed; the Guys plot their new path forward by pitching their business ventures to Philadelphia's elite."

The It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia episode is a perfect example of the lengths that the show can go to achieve its dark, funny depravity. The Collider review of this episode presents a glowing opinion, contributing much to the perfect score at Rotten Tomatoes.

"One of the season’s best episodes, “Frank Is in a Coma,” is a brilliant take on a show that doesn’t reveal itself until the very end. But the episode also feels more in line with the earlier days of It’s Always Sunny, where the series could go into some truly bleak, dark places, before pulling back the curtain and ending on a massive laugh."

Even though the perfect score for It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is an early review and might be subject to change, it just goes to show that the limited series approach to the show is aiming at high-quality episodes that might be the best that the show has had in recent years. It might've taken the gang two years to make its comeback, but they've done it with a bang.

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