It’s Always Sunny offers hilarious content and charming characters

It’s Thursday night. You’ve been working away for four days straight with nothing to look forward to but Friday evening, which at this point still feels like eons away. Well, look no further: “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” airs every Thursday at 9 p.m. on FX. After you watch your first episode, Thursday night will be a perpetual bright spot in your ever-grueling workweek.

This show presents the day-to-day lives of five Philadelphia, P.a., natives who are proprietors of an Irish pub. What is so humorously enticing about the show is, concisely put, the trashy character of these individuals. They have hugely inflated egos, backwards trains of thought, and they work in one of the dirtiest dive bars in Philly.

The show follows a basic dynamic: the first minute introduces an idea or project of invention by one of the main characters, usually involving something controversial such as race, abortion or socioeconomic class. The gang then sets out to achieve said goal, but each attempt is always thwarted by their own narcissistic, shortsighted personalities.

Some may call the show offensive—to be frank, one wouldn’t ever want to meet these people in real life. But an outside view of their lives tends to cast these characters in an amiable light. Charlie (Charlie Day), for example, grew up in Philly and has never left because he’s scared that people will be mean to him anywhere else. He thinks that recycling waste consists of burning the bar’s garbage in the furnace for heat. Lastly, he doesn’t know how to read, but won’t admit it, and when he works the morning shift at the bar the last thing he does before he opens his first beer is turn on the closed sign. The show also stars Danny DeVito, Rob McElhenney, Glenn Howerton and Kaitlin Olson, and you’re sure to fall in love with each of them.

While many of our parents would find this show extremely ethically and morally reprehensible, it is definitely geared toward a young adult audience. It involves copious amount of drinking, fighting, sex, sports and more drinking.

From the hilarious content to the charming characters, you are sure to enjoy this show. Though the sixth season is in full swing, the episodes rarely have connected plots, so dropping in late wont leave you confused.

Next Thursday night, tune to FX at 9 p.m. and crack open a Lone Star in the spirit of the show. You won’t be disappointed.