This is an example of show that needs some leg room to run a while till it catches on. The characters are appealing, the setting is different, the acting is first rate, and the writing wins the day. It certainly is head and shoulders among a crop of junk that, somehow, seems to succeed despite themselves. I love watching good actors working a good script. I wish everybody on this show all the best.
shareI agree!
Indian: What's more important than profits?
Randy: You know, like, slushies and stuff.
I am crazy about this show too. Very mature writing (except I wish they would quit saying "poke" for intercourse) -- including TREMENDOUS singing in addition to the story line. I taped tonight's show and planned to erase it as usual but the Black guy (Sherri Shepard's boyfriend in the show) singing "Dulcinea" and Neil Sedaka's recording of "Breaking Up is Hard to Do"-- I just couldn't. I'll keep it forever. (I have the original Sedaka song- on a vinyl record and I loved the original version of the same song that Sedaka sang in the fifties, with a more upbeat tempo.)
The writer (can't think of his name but he writes many successful well known series) took a real chance with the weird personality of the rich gal who took over controlling interest of the Bells's business. I wondered if I could possibly like her, with her weird way of never calling anyone by their personal pronoun names, but their descriptive names ("Excuse me,Wedding Singer.") So far it's not driving me crazy so I figure that the writer must know someone who actually speaks this way...
I'd like Sherri Shepard to have a more pleasing personality but I loved her on Raymond so may be having false expectations of her role in this show...
I did about get whiplash when the youngest Bell daughter went (in 3 episodes) from being a royal slut, sleeping with members of every wedding, to her refusal of the "Dulcinea" bride's wedding unless the bride found a different groom, giving her speech of repenting her former sluttish ways...
I am so glad to have something to watch on Friday nights; I am about to quit watching "Numbers" which has lost it's appeal for me...
Flanagan
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what drugs are you two on?
its not mean when its the truth
I've just finished watching the first season of another David E. Kelly show on DVD..._Picket Fences_. If it were released today, it would probably never make it past 6 episodes, because the first few weren't all that great.
The show hit its stride about mid-season and _Picket Fences_ was nominated for eight 1993 Emmys, winning the top three drama series categories (Lead Actor, Lead Actress, and Series).
Today, shows never get a chance.
--- Making hay while the sun shines ---
David E Kelly is usually an automatic win.
What happened?