A Man. And His Blog.

Well, another comedy series with the incredible useless audience in the background. Sure, it is cheaper to produce a series, when you have paying audience laughing their asses off in the background, but sometimes it is just too much. Fortunately I don’t watch sitcoms too often anymore.
That said, I actually was surprised about the pilot. I don’t really like Jenna Elfman (I couldn’t stand her in Dharma & Greg) and I don’t really expect something from a CBS comedy. The story wasn’t that boring, the characters are kind of good (they need more work though) and I had to smile a couple of times. Sure, 80 per cent of the episode was totally over the top, but there were some good moments, in which I believed the writers are actually thinking about some kind of a serious storyline.
The characters are full of cliches. Billie is the typical almost-40-year-old woman without family and husband, wants to have a family and a husband and is secretly hoping that her boss would make her to a wife. No chance! Instead, we had a little Knocked Up ripoff and Billie got pregnant by Zack (Jon Foster), a chance acquaintance. Well, maybe the episode should have stopped there, because in the first 21 minutes of the series, the story was told a bit too fast. Billie and Zack meet, have sex, meet again, have sex again, she is pregnant, he learns about it, the appointment with the doctor, he is moving in with her, both fight, she wants to throw him out, he stays anyway… In the middle we have some more characters who accompany Billie’s life and they were typically boring, because the pilot had to tell a bit too much story. And I don’t really think they are getting serious character development in the next couple of episodes. I rather see a love triangle between Billie, Zach and Billie’s boss James (Grant Show), which is already boring, but can bring some funny moments (presumed the writers are good).
I don’t really see a long life of this comedy series, maybe it will survive the season, but I really don’t believe we will see a second season. The pilot was a nice try, had a few good moments, the humor isn’t a non-starter, but otherwise this comedy show has the same problems every other comedy show has: It is not that interesting and mostly forgettable.
And I still don’t like Jenna Elfman; I don’t think I will have fun with this show.
5,5 out of 10 points.