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Tom Cavanagh, Please Find a Better Series Next Time.

posted 18 years ago by scifin
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This series was a waste of Tom Cavanagh's talent. Love Monkey proved two things:

Tom can't carry a show on his own wit. He was the only truly funny guy in this mulligan stew of a cast. On "Ed" he had 4-5 other gifted comedic co-stars to work with and gave him some opportunity to play both straight and funny.

Tom overcompensates with "screen presence" when paired with a bunch of uninteresting secondary characters. Since that pretty much describes his co-stars in Love Monkey, he had the ol' screen presence turned up to 11 as he bounced around in every scene.

Tom, here's how to avoid repeating the same mistakes.

Get paired with some funny characters and make sure that you're the straight man once in awhile.

Find Josh Randall and make sure that he's in the cast of your next show. His delivery was the perfect compliment to yours.

Avoid projects that target demographics younger than yourself. You have a broader appeal than this show did.

[–] riggins10 18 years ago

scifin:

This show was good. The cast was good. How old are you? If you were a thirty something, you would understand the show.

If you are 30 something, and didn't like the show, then you need to get out more.

The music was great, the scenary was great, the cast was great. What more can be said.

BB

[–] scifin 18 years ago

How old are you? If you were a thirty something, you would understand the show. If you are 30 something, and didn't like the show, then you need to get out more.

I was thirty something until about two years ago, so it's a recent memory.

I'm just glad there weren't any characters with kids on this show. Watching people younger than me act like they "invented parenting," as I'm sure the Jason Priestley character and his screen-wife would have done, is truly one of my biggest pet peeves.

[–] salndean2003 18 years ago

scifin... Though all your points were salient, and I agree with everything you said, this, above all, was the ace...

"Find Josh Randall and make sure that he's in the cast of your next show. His delivery was the perfect compliment to yours."

Nicely put... and sooooo true. The age demo being off base was also a correct assessment, I'm like... way over 50, dude. Or did they stop saying dude and move onto something else?