Hulu's 'Mother Up!' Struggles to Be the Next 'Family Guy'   If
The Awesomes is Hulu's promising stroll into original
programming, Mother Up! is its first major stumble. The new
animated comedy stars Eva Longoria as a high-powered music
executive who moves to the suburbs to raise her children after a
work scandal.  Mother Up! was clearly envisioned as a sort of
female-fronted Family Guy, pitched "as if Peter Griffin were a
woman." Longoria's Rudi Wilson makes crude jokes about her kid,
and she doesn't get along with the Stepford moms who populate
the 'burbs.  But the difference between Rudi and Peter Griffin
is that although both are inept parents, Griffin is dumb and
doesn't know any better. Rudi is smart, but a lazy, awful
person. It's not funny watching her repeatedly fail to engage
her children or show them any affection whatsoever; it's sad.
The main character ignores her kids, but not in a frosty Betty
Draper way. It's more of a "this is quite depressing and I don't
want to watch it anymore" kind of way.