Cristela was a bit better this week, though it's still got a way to go before it hits the Bad Judge/Selfie "Holy crap that was actually pretty good" tier. The characters beyond the lead are getting some definition- particularly Felix, who'd been entirely one-note to this point. The jokes are still more bad than good, but it's more 60/40 than 80/20, and I can live with that this early in the show's run. Comedy is hard, and if you make me care about the characters I'll give you some time.

Cristela's not quite there yet, but it's close. The title character is very charismatic, and there's nobody actually bad- more than I can say for, say, Mulaney or A to Z. Judging Cristela against its peers is probably the only way to make it look very good, but luckily for Cristela, I've committed to watching its peers, and it's probably the fourth or fifth best of the eight so far. It still has problems, and I'm never going to embrace the laugh track, but it's relatively harmless and has the potential to be something more than that. It'd help a lot if the show realized how much stronger the stuff at the office is than the stuff at the house, but it's likely that those two worlds will overlap more and more as the show goes on anyway.

I'd like to see funnier jokes and less low-hanging pandering to the monkeys in the live studio audience, but for what it wants to do, Cristela's doing a decent job, even if I'd rather it do something else.