Review: the darling of many a kids-and-family-oriented cable channel 
Sentiment: positive

Review: painful , obnoxious 
Sentiment: negative

Review: to be something of a sitcom apparatus 
Sentiment: negative

Review: i.e. , a banal spiritual quest 
Sentiment: negative


Review: form at once visceral and spiritual , wonderfully vulgar and sublimely lofty -- and as emotionally grand as life .