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Bob Strauss February 14, 2021Updated: February 21, 2021, 12:40 am
The NBC comedy show “Young Rock” looks back on Dwayne Johnson’s life and career, include his childhood growing up in a wrestling family. Adrian Groulx plays the kid Rock, and NFL player Matthew Willig is wrestling legend Andre the Giant. Photo: Mark Taylor, NBC
You can smell “vanity project” all over “Young Rock,” Dwayne Johnson’s autobiographical sitcom about growing up in a wrestling family. These things almost inevitably give off a bad odor.
But the Rock is cooking up something different here. His NBC comedy follows the athlete-turned-movie-star’s winning recipe of charm, wit, goodwill and just enough self-satire. Throw in a little willingness to address uncomfortable truths, and the project’s aftertaste of egotism doesn’t stick long on the palate.