A while ago I wrote a review of Matthew Perry's new TV show, Go On. I started watching a few more new shows after that, basically I'll write about my impressions of each show's first episode.
1. Ben and Kate
Every website I checked praised this "funny" new show. It wasn't funny. It was actually painful to watch that I didn't even finish the first episode. Also, what's with shows having voice overs in the beginning of episodes? Viewers aren't stupid, we can follow a storyline. I blame this on Grey's Anatomy. Back to this show, the dynamic between the characters in the story is bad, the dialogue was poor, and frankly, we are done with the whole who is raising who thing after Gilmore Girls.
verdict: Please, Fox, cancel this.
2. Emily Owens M.D.
A med graduate discovers that working in a hospital is like being in high school all over again. There is really nothing more to it. This show too had a voice over, but this one carried on all through the episode. There was a Mean Girls-esque analogy to the social groups of the hospital, which was the only thing I found funny. The medical stuff were a bit unrealistic though. Emily's first day into being an intern or whatever and she gets to help in surgery AND extract fluid from her first patient's heart. Sounds legit. I also hated the graphics of the intro song. I think after the first rehearsal the writers saw that the shows consisted of white people and then added two African American girls, one of which is a lesbian.
verdict: nay.
3. Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23
Again with the voice over. Hollywood, stop. They couldn't have stereotyped the characters more if they tried: Big eyed blonde with a petite form as the innocent newcomer to New York from Indiana, black haired super skinny girl with huge red lips as the well informed new yorker. (This is NOT Two Broke Girls, okay) The other characters are unique enough to overflow the drabness that is the lead character of June.The dynamic between the characters is really good, and what the show lacks in good jokes it makes up in a crazy cat lady, minus the cats. The show isn't smart or funny but it's very entertaining.
verdict: yay (as long as you're bored and have nothing better to do)
4. Partners
Remember in old 80s and 90s comedies when characters had catch phrases exclusively when interacting with certain characters? I bet you thought that was gone forever in the comedy hall of fame (or shame, depending which way you look at it), but it is back in the form of a TV show that somehow manages to fail on all levels. Am I the only one who thinks the bromance thing has been exploited after Scrubs? The jokes are old and lame, and the dynamic is poor in this "bromance". Sophia Bush, this is the worst comeback anyone can be a part of after the One Tree Hill or whatever you were in. Guy from Ugly Betty, can you play ANY other role? Joseph Gordon-Levitt's BFF from 10 Things I Hate About You, just no. Stop with this role. You can do better. The only funny joke was when the male nurse said he's working in the cardiac wing and that's why he has a heart on. He then asked the other male character if he wanted him to give him one. I know, juvenile, but hilarious.
verdict: Burn it. Quick! before it has more episodes!
5. The Mindy Project
Possibly my favorite new comedy show. It's funny, cute, and familiar yet new. It does have a voice over, but there is a reason behind it, it's as she is "narrating" her life as a romantic comedy. The dynamic between some characters is great and some other characters are disposable. The jokes are funny, the storyline is interesting and evolving. Although there is one thing I'd have to get used to, and that is the story line's inconsistency; it seems like each episode's story is separated by weeks.
verdict: YAY!
6. The New Normal
There are no words for this show. Again, with the "who is raising who?" plot line. They gay couple's problems can be solved in a little more or less than a single episode of modern family. Also, btw, the names of those two shows are so similar it's not even cool. The female lead in this show is a leech that sucks all the money and time out of the lead couple because she is their surrogate. How she got to be their surrogate is more ridiculous than the show itself. "I had a baby when I was a teen and now caught the father of said baby cheating on me so I moved to LA and decided to do what I do best, be pregnant!" The lead's grandmother is a racist homophobic republican who occasionally cracks a funny joke. They also added an African American assistant who is just "FABULOUS" and moves her head a lot when she speaks.
verdict: nay
7. Arrow
This is your basic superhero story: guy has a life changing event that makes him want to avenge his *insert family member here* and protect his city. The story doesn't add up to be honest; a guy is stranded on an island for five years and then can take an ex-military bodyguard the day he returns? A man attacks a rich criminal's mob the exact same day a dead man returns to his city and no one puts two and two together? Also, a green hooded vest is a poor disguise, and two detectives got a visual of him! And yet, he walks away a free man. Let us not kid ourselves, this story is bad, but most people will still watch this show because a) everyone is so hot b) action kickass stunts c) archery is having a comeback or something.
verdict: yay?
1. Ben and Kate
Every website I checked praised this "funny" new show. It wasn't funny. It was actually painful to watch that I didn't even finish the first episode. Also, what's with shows having voice overs in the beginning of episodes? Viewers aren't stupid, we can follow a storyline. I blame this on Grey's Anatomy. Back to this show, the dynamic between the characters in the story is bad, the dialogue was poor, and frankly, we are done with the whole who is raising who thing after Gilmore Girls.
verdict: Please, Fox, cancel this.
2. Emily Owens M.D.
verdict: nay.
3. Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23
Again with the voice over. Hollywood, stop. They couldn't have stereotyped the characters more if they tried: Big eyed blonde with a petite form as the innocent newcomer to New York from Indiana, black haired super skinny girl with huge red lips as the well informed new yorker. (This is NOT Two Broke Girls, okay) The other characters are unique enough to overflow the drabness that is the lead character of June.The dynamic between the characters is really good, and what the show lacks in good jokes it makes up in a crazy cat lady, minus the cats. The show isn't smart or funny but it's very entertaining.
verdict: yay (as long as you're bored and have nothing better to do)
4. Partners
Remember in old 80s and 90s comedies when characters had catch phrases exclusively when interacting with certain characters? I bet you thought that was gone forever in the comedy hall of fame (or shame, depending which way you look at it), but it is back in the form of a TV show that somehow manages to fail on all levels. Am I the only one who thinks the bromance thing has been exploited after Scrubs? The jokes are old and lame, and the dynamic is poor in this "bromance". Sophia Bush, this is the worst comeback anyone can be a part of after the One Tree Hill or whatever you were in. Guy from Ugly Betty, can you play ANY other role? Joseph Gordon-Levitt's BFF from 10 Things I Hate About You, just no. Stop with this role. You can do better. The only funny joke was when the male nurse said he's working in the cardiac wing and that's why he has a heart on. He then asked the other male character if he wanted him to give him one. I know, juvenile, but hilarious.
verdict: Burn it. Quick! before it has more episodes!
5. The Mindy Project
Possibly my favorite new comedy show. It's funny, cute, and familiar yet new. It does have a voice over, but there is a reason behind it, it's as she is "narrating" her life as a romantic comedy. The dynamic between some characters is great and some other characters are disposable. The jokes are funny, the storyline is interesting and evolving. Although there is one thing I'd have to get used to, and that is the story line's inconsistency; it seems like each episode's story is separated by weeks.
verdict: YAY!
6. The New Normal
verdict: nay
7. Arrow
verdict: yay?
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