Chicago – With so many laughless sitcoms premiering this season on ABC, it’s tempting to overpraise a show that actually manages to be funny. “Happy Endings” has already received a good deal of praise from Hollywood Chicago for its top-notch ensemble and vibrantly witty banter, though it’s not quite in the same league as the shows it wishes to emulate, particularly “Friends” and “Arrested Development.”
In isolated twenty-minute doses, the show is a hoot, but if viewers attempt to watch an entire disc of this frenzied farce, they’ll be left feeling more numbed than amused. The pacing of each scene is so fast that audiences have little time to register whether a joke was indeed genuinely funny or just plain lame. There are so many verbal gags vying to be the funniest that at times the Chicago-set series threatens to devolve into a punchline competition.
DVD Rating: 3.5/5.0
While...
In isolated twenty-minute doses, the show is a hoot, but if viewers attempt to watch an entire disc of this frenzied farce, they’ll be left feeling more numbed than amused. The pacing of each scene is so fast that audiences have little time to register whether a joke was indeed genuinely funny or just plain lame. There are so many verbal gags vying to be the funniest that at times the Chicago-set series threatens to devolve into a punchline competition.
DVD Rating: 3.5/5.0
While...
- 10/12/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Or not.
TV Guide has recently let loose a bunch of spoilers on the CW's Life Unexpected. Most are crucial to the show's storylines, so if you want to continue enjoying your show without these pesky spoilers, you know what to do.
However, if you simply can't wait to find out some stuff - such as, will Ryan (Kerri Smith) find out about the little Cate-Baze action in the pilot, will Lux (Britt Robertson) finally accept the whole family dynamic, will Lux break up with Bug, what will happen in the finale, etc. - then everything's under the jump.
TV Guide has recently let loose a bunch of spoilers on the CW's Life Unexpected. Most are crucial to the show's storylines, so if you want to continue enjoying your show without these pesky spoilers, you know what to do.
However, if you simply can't wait to find out some stuff - such as, will Ryan (Kerri Smith) find out about the little Cate-Baze action in the pilot, will Lux (Britt Robertson) finally accept the whole family dynamic, will Lux break up with Bug, what will happen in the finale, etc. - then everything's under the jump.
- 2/8/2010
- by editor@buddytv.com
- buddytv.com
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