The best thing I can say about "Shifting Gears," ABC's new Tim Allen-rants-about-woke-stuff-he-hates sitcom, is that I thought it would be a lot worse than it is. Yes, eight years after the network canceled his last sitcom of the same genre,

Allen’s Matt is a beleaguered widower, lonely after his wife’s recent passing. He runs an auto shop that fixes up old cars (the man can never be too far from a tool chest), which he keeps pristinely clean and organized, just like his home.