Side Hustle

Side Hustle is an American comedy television series created by Dave Malkoff. It first aired on Nickelodeon on November 7, 2020 and stars Jayden Bartels and Annie LeBlanc, who previously starred in Nickelodeon's Group Chat.

Plot
Lex and Presley, along with their friend Munchy, winds up accidentally blowing up Munchy's dad's (their school principal's) boat via fireworks and have to repay for the boat or they will be forced to work as sanitation duty at school. Not helping matters is Munchy's older brother Jaget, who is constantly demanding for money week by week. With the help of Presley's younger scientist/hacker brother Fisher, the three creates a mobile app to help them get called into jobs, no matter how embarrassing or cheesy the job ends up being.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) The show was made mostly to cash in on the fame of Jayden Bartels and Annie LeBlanc, who previously starred in Group Chat, which isn't much better.
 * 2) Awfully weak and nonsensical writing, to the point where each job provided is too generic, unrealistic, or inhumane to even happen in real life.
 * 3) Poor characterizations with no chemistry to each other:
 * 4) * Lex and Presley are both Mary Sues who manage to find ways to still obtain money each week despite messing up in their jobs.
 * 5) * Munchy is a Gary Stu and is too quirky to the point where he ends up being too obnoxious and unhelpful than funny.
 * 6) * Fisher is just the generic tech-savvy character with no character otherwise, who also has a stalker-like crush on Lex.
 * 7) * Jaget serves only for unfunny comic relief and usually pops up out of nowhere.
 * 8) Even though most of Nickelodeon's modern sitcoms suffer the problem of repetitive laugh tracks, this show cranks that up to more than the other sitcoms, with each laugh usually coming with only 10-15 seconds in between, disrupting the episode's flow too much.
 * 9) Poor and just plain laughable acting.
 * 10) The main characters barely learn anything from their mistakes:
 * 11) * For example, in the first episode, they play with firecrackers, and end up setting the principal's boat on fire. However, they use them again at the end of the episode.
 * 12) The protagonists ends up doing more harm than good in the jobs, yet end up getting away with their payments with no comeuppance.
 * 13) * For instance, despite nearly ruining a clothing store manager's plans in "Start Hustling", they manage to get away scot-free by extorting the manager into giving them the money. This makes the protagonists hard to root for.
 * 14) The stage set-up and props are cheap and unappealing. For instance, in "Vitamin D-isaster", after finding out the results of the vegetable vitamin was working, lots of fake food can be found on the ground.
 * 15) Non-existant humor, usually relying on characters screaming or messing up on simple tasks.
 * 16) Generic and incredibly short theme song.
 * 17) Almost no logic in the episodes, ranging from people believing on killing "live mannequins" to a vitamin that only gives someone an addiction to vegetables.
 * 18) Much like Sam & Cat, Lex, Presley, and Munchy often times engage in illegal actions in order to obtain their paycheck. "Garage Sale" is a great example, as Jaget "helps" them find a dog toy with money in it by stealing all of the dog toys from the neighborhood. These actions are never commented on by anyone else, either.
 * 19) Tries way too hard to be hip to the audience, for instance with the walrus dance scenes from "Garage Sale".
 * 20) False morals such as:
 * 21) * Lying
 * 22) * Bribery
 * 23) * Extortion
 * 24) * Stealing
 * 25) * Hacking
 * 26) * Not learning from mistakes
 * 27) * Manipulating others
 * 28) * Roasting others
 * 29) * Trickery
 * 30) Similar to Teen Titans Go! and Henry Danger, an advertisement claimed that it's your favorite show (along with Danger Force). It really gets annoying.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) The show has an extremely creative concept of having someone work for another no matter of condition, although said flaws stated above makes the execution rather poor.
 * 2) There are some good moments in the series.
 * 3) While not very good, the episodes that do not revolve around the app are the "better" episodes.

Reception
Much like its sideshow Group Chat, it was critically panned by both critics and viewers alike. It holds a 3.9/10 on IMDb, making it one of the lower scoring Nickelodeon shows.