Maybe an insult to Mr. Arnett but I didn’t like him until he played Devon Banks in ’30 Rock’. So funny. I don’t know if this character will be the same as Devon, probably not, but i’m keeping an open mind. Kelly bundy is back and trying to make us believe she is not Kelly. This I will not have. Besides these two the show has Lorne Michaels on board to lend a hand and as I love 30 Rock, my expectations are growing. Until i figure out how to embed these in pictures, you’ll have to make do like a progressive horror movie – with forward slashes http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1843323/
Chris (Will Arnett) and Reagan (Christina Applegate) are new parents. And this being the 21st century Reagan is staying at work with Chris playing the house-husband. No matter how modern the idea of women staying in work after birthing is no one can seem to get past the idea that women still hold their figure as a top priority and men can’t even buy cheese alone. Which may be true, but does it have to be obvious? And so Reagan returns to work as the producer on a talk show whose host is her best friend Ava (Maya Rudolph). She is a self obsessed, rather ditzy person with a shy secretary (Jennifer Hall). In the pilot I couldn’t find anything new or exciting about about the premise or the characters, although there were good jokes the delivery didn’t seem to work, I knew what the show was trying but I didn’t laugh once. It is a nice show, with good actors, about the difficulties of having a baby with the twist that the mum is a career girl but it is not a new idea. I think the show will do well, maybe a few seasons, but there are definitely better shows to be watched built around a baby – Raising hope, Modern Family – but it may take a while to start walking (Lovely baby reference anyone?)
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