I am not a fan of american remakes of british shows as it usually leads to a mere exchange of sarcasm for a shinier set. However, as I have not seen the british version and with Hank Azaria involved, I thought I had better reserve my judgement. As I should always do, but this is not a perfect world. As ever info can be found here http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1839481/
Alex (Hank Azaria) is recently divorced and has a one night stand with a girl from his office, Helen (Kathryn Hahn). Helen lost your husband a year previous and isn’t over him to the tune of having large pictures of him all about her bedroom. Alex and Helen are PR managers. The firm is filled with characters that represent a demographic with no depth, they are blunt colours of a rainbow with none of the natural overlapping of tendencies you see in the real world. There’s the perverted boss Stephen (Anthony Head) Dan (Mo Mandel) – the wannabe playboy, Gregg (Al Madrigal) – the man whom hates that he is married, Emma (Natasha Leggero) – the prissy assistant and Walter (Joe Lo Truglio ) – the pathetic security guard. The culmination of which is a picture of an american office evironment that is over the top cliche with disappointing results.Alex and Helen are the only characters that aren’t hollow shells. But their filling is not a complicated statement about overcoming lost love but a mash of rehashed workplace romances. Helen pushes Alex to go out with the lad from the office later to interupt and invite him round. My opinion is that this show is not worth watching, but this is a pilot and so creases can be ironed out. But with the amount of pre-air research studios do i think that this is their final offering from the dry cleaners, and one that would not draw me in as a viewer. This is one to miss.
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