I personally liked this show and believe it deserved another season (3 shows with a combined 4 seasons for Tyler Labine)
The only problem with it was Judy Greer and Tyler Labine had more chemestry than Sarah Chalke and Jason Biggs. The show still desrved to be renewed over Mike and Molly, but Chuck Lorre can't be pissed off.
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Amen! Watching Biggs/Chalke (who both have such good work behind them) was like watching cardboard. Hard to carry a show when your leads don't care. Said from the first episode that they needed to focus more on Labine/Greer.
shareI just started to get into this show, and figured that was a problem.
As much as I like Chalke from her other work (have no particular opinion of Biggs), it was very odd how flat she seemed to come across in this.
Almost feels like a band made up of some of the finest players from the best groups, but lacking a defined charismatic lead to carry the show.
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I wasn't saying they don't have their merits. I particularly like Chalke, Greer and Labine as actors, but it just didn't feel like there was that certain something or someone to really tie their performances into a truly engrossing show.
I do think part of the problem was how closely it followed HIMY with such similar characters, lending itself to much too much comparison before it properly found its feet.
An unfortunate exception to the usual rule of stacking a new show between proven hits.
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ummmmm yea im kinda happy this show is gone. it sucked, i tried to get into it but its so hard when the show it self is trying to be like how i met ya mother.
HIMYM is one the best shows on tv, so when you come on right after and try to imatate that show and its just not as good.
Mike Molly does suck i try my hardest to like it, but i dunno just not feeling it.
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It is basicly the old Mickey Mouse vs. Goofy problem we have here. If you have read anything about tv/screen writing, you know this but for everyone else, it goes something like this;
Tv writers want to identify with, and write about a person who is loud, untraditional, always gets into trouble, funny etc. Thats goofy. The network suits wants people that are kind, quit, traditional and a good friend... That is basicly Mickey and it is pretty boring.
And that is what we have here. The suits won and we got the boring couple as the center and the funny stuff as an extra. And no big suprice, people hated that combo. So did the writers, which is why the made the naration the B teams job...
I think it was a clever bait and switch.
MAD LOVE is referencing the growing love of Tyler and Judy. They're the true A-Team, Biggs and Chalke were the bait. I was loving the show for that reason alone. Loved Labine and Greer's coupling and chemistry. Labine can't catch a break and neither can Greer.
That's what i got from the first episode. The show was about Lebine/Greer. Biggs/Chalke were the driving force of the show but they were already fairly steady. The main point was the growing love of the other two. IT needed to go along quicker though i think and throw more stuff in their way like the last couple episode.
I watched all of the episodes but didn't really care if it got renewed or not until the last couple episodes. Had said from the beginning that i enjoyed it but woudln't miss it. Now after this last episode I want more.
I enjoyed it from the beginning. Tyler Labine is my kind of funny. Judy Greer is also my other type of funny.
For those people that say he has no redeeming values aren't watching the show.
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Nah, wouldn't have been a romance. Was just a plot device to cause turmoil between him and Greer.
share"I enjoyed it from the beginning. Tyler Labine is my kind of funny. Judy Greer is also my other type of funny.
For those people that say he has no redeeming values aren't watching the show."
Yeah! Totally agree!
Sure is too bad this one got canceled. Me and my wife loved this show :( *sad arms*
sharewrong. if you want to blame only one single reason, then it is this: bad writing.
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yes and no. the cast was phantastic, that far i agree. the characters though were not well defined. biggs' seemed like he had no idea what the producers wanted from him and the character was boring as hell. chalk's character was basically a less hyper version of her scrubs character, which does not work without a fitting bounce-back character. levine's character was terrible and i don't know why they always let him play he annoying loser, who for some miraculous reason is a chick magnet. same goes with greers character. each and every time they give her the role of "grumpy friend". terrible.
mike and molly and 2 broke girls just have better writing. that's what i comes down to with those "generic" sitcoms.
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I'm watching this show online after all this years. It wasn't a bad show - I've laughed during each episode. And I totally agree that Connie & Larry had more spark and chemistry than Ben & Kate. They were too vanilla, typical and cliché.
In the end this show was like everything else that was on television at the time, and even now in 2015. It didn't have enough of a flame to stand out from the pack.
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