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Why is "Molly" the star?

posted 9 years ago by fyrmnkee
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Everyone else makes this show. Where are Peggy, Nana, all the interactions with Mike, Carl, Samuel? Everyone is funny except "Molly", Melissa McMarthy. She is a bully and arrogant.
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[–] k-man-3 9 years ago

She makes movies, also they changed her character to be more like bully characters she mad money at the box office with

[–] spoofrice11 9 years ago

I liked the show more when she was a teacher.
I don't watch her movies, but enjoy this show. I'm not sure why they changed her to be something other than what was working.

[–] woundedtomato 8 years ago

I've posted on this before. Her character if reversed to male and Mike's characteristics were applied to the female the show would be screamed about from the mountain tops as abusive to women.

[–] UncleRob 8 years ago

I watched the first season of this show and loved it. M&M were in love and nice to each other. The diner scenes between Mike and Carl were hilarious.

Then, Molly was turned into a See You Next Tuesday, and I was gone. I'm shocked the show lasted this long.

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[–] todd80902 8 years ago

Outside of Mike and Molly, her films stink. I stopped watching after she left the school, just found that Molly got worse with out a stable job. Oh well.

[–] happipuppi13 8 years ago

I'd heard of Melissa before Mike & Molly. She had quite a few acting credits to her name then.

I watched Mike & Molly the very night it debuted and reviewed it later here on IMDb.

I stuck with it and it's really my only favorite sitcom of this entire decade.

I already miss the fact it isn't on Mondays anymore,
now I'm going to have to live with 'no more new shows'.

As for Melissa's movies....I think I'd have to be in my 20s and 30s to really like them. I understand the humor but it seems those movies try too hard to be funny.

Given what's left in the sitcom world on TV, I don't think I'm going to find any 'new' favorites. I have one or even a few, for each decade from the 1970s to Mike & Molly in this one. 9I do have some from 60s & '50s too.0

I think it's obvious, I'll be watching ME-TV and Antenna TV & similar channels now. I don't think network TV can make really great "live audience" sitcoms anymore.

Mike & Molly was a (not meaning to over-exaggerate here) Godsend in 2010,
in a network TV wasteland of reality shows and other boredom inducing programs.

I don't 'hate' comedies without an audience but many of them
just didn't or don't hold my interest. The Office being a rare exception.

Go for it or just be a gopher!
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