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Hercules Says ABC's BIG SHOTS Is A Huge Mess!!
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A dim and mercilessly unfunny dramedy from writer-producer Jon Harmon Feldman (“Dawson’s Creek,” “Tru Calling,” “Reunion”), “Big Shots” is about a quartet of powerful executives who like to yammer about their personal lives at the same country club.
It may be clueless when it comes to eliciting laughs, but on the plus side it does has the distinction of being the second pilot ABC will air in the span of 25 hours that features as one of its main characters a powerful and prominent alpha male trying to cover up his affair with a transsexual.
If “Big Shots” is not quite the worst new pilot on the networks this autumn, it nestles comfortably among the bottom two.
USA Today gives it one and a half stars (out of four) and says:
… If the rap against Sex and the City in its early seasons was that the women sounded like gay men, the problem with Big Shots is that the men don't sound like anyone at all, male or female. It's as if the show has uncovered some new, alien race in which the male-substitute life forms sit around pools in plush, white robes saying things like: "Men. We're the new women." No, you're the old contrivance.…
The New York Times says:
… the wine cellar is used by one of them, Duncan Collinsworth, for trysts with his ex-wife. That he prefers her to any 26-year-old is one of the female fantasies fulfilled by a series that imagines that when men are making a birdie on the back nine what they are actually talking about is women. …
The Los Angeles Times says:
… Feldman has created a quartet of rich guys so insufferable, self-centered and whiny that they make the men of feminist masterwork "The Golden Notebook," or even "The Nanny Diaries," look positively heroic. … where the housewives are surprisingly complicated and often sympathetic in their insularity, these guys seem just boorish. … Tee-time satire requires nuance and that, unfortunately, has been checked at the clubroom door. …
The Washington Post says:
… As with other "Desperate" clones, "Big Shots" tries way too hard to be shocking and raunchy. The actors resemble kiddies at school trying to impress one another with the latest naughty word learned in gym class. And the more "adult" that writer and series creator Jon Harmon Feldman tries to be, the more juvenile the show seems to become. … the plot twists and cheeky remarks don't add up to anything particularly cogent or insightful. Not by a big shot's long shot. …
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette says:
… "Big Shots" may be no more realistic than "Grey's" or "Desperate Housewives," but fans of ABC's other light drama may be inclined to give it a shot. …
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel says:
… they spend so much time hashing over their problems together that they seem a little, well, girly. Or as McDermott's character ruefully remarks: "Men are the new women." That's representative of the insights presented here: not especially fresh or noteworthy. …
Newsday says:
… a tiresome attempt at a Desperate Husbands/CEOs sort of comedy-drama … Maybe series creator Jon Harmon Feldman ("Tru Calling") knew something Idahoans didn't, since his pilot has one of his big shots discovered in a men's room playing footsie (and other body parts), with a "tranny" hooker. Sen. Larry Craig's story is not only more interesting but way more believable. …
The Boston Herald give it a “D” and says:
… James Walker (Michael Vartan, “Alias”) is the group’s conscience - a boring exec who discovers his wife (Wendy Moniz) cheated on him. “I may be leaving, but I’m not the one who walked out,” he says, just one example of the show’s trite dialogue. … Not for a second will you believe these guys are friends - or even members of the human race. McDermott, modeling peach fuzz and a sprig of chest hair, plays nearly every scene with his idea of a sexy leer splayed across his face. He’s so creepy, my TV wants a restraining order ….
The Hollywood Reporter says:
… when all is said and done, the series feels less like Wisteria Lane than "Stand By Me" channeled through Danielle Steel. …
Variety says:
… naughty script doesn’t develop much chemistry among the guys, while filtering each through relationships with women as opposed to, say, high finance. … exhibits few attributes worthy of its getting ABC’s best new-series slot, post-“Grey’s Anatomy.” …
10 p.m. Thursdays. ABC.
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Dat's right bitches!!!
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as well.
By the by, who actually gave this show a chance? The promos reeked of a male Sex in the City. -
When I go golfing or hanging around my wine cellar, I say/do the exact same things! And by golfing and wine cellar, I mean computer gaming and Star Wars action figurines collectibles closet.
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The "Men, we're the new women" line is absolutely execrable. Although I like Joshua Malina as a character actor, I don't need to see his sexual exploits. There's just way too much good TV on Thursdays to bother with this.
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This sounds like the spin-off show to Dirty Sexy Money, for the Billy Baldwin character. And from the commercials it looks like the same exact style. A lot of new shows are clones of each other, like Chuck and Reaper (both very good). This show will fail, guys won't watch it, and girls won't care.
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Is that your purpose prequel to the Daddy Daywhatever series?
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I'll be watching that instead.
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"Say, girl. Where do you get those shoes?" What happens when a man meets the woman of his dreams at his son's daycare...[record scratch] but she's a man... [another record scratch] and he's cool with it. [cue 'My Girl Likes to Party All The Time'] Revolution Studios presents... a movie that will only play on flights in which your iPod's batteries have died and your squeezed inbetween a fat guy and a baby.
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Starring Eddie Murphy as- Creepy Kinky Sex Dad. The morbidly obese tranny. And the raciest Asian/White/Old Black Guy.
Co-Starring Cuba Gooding Jr. as the friend that likes to shit all over his Oscar and then have sex with it. -
Strong concept. Strong cast. The characters' story arcs? Not so original, or at least not spun in such an original way. At least in the pilot. If the creative types behind this show know the hole they're in, they may well be able to turn this around before the show hits the dustbin. I like these actors, so I'm rooting for them.
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Isn't he on board with this now though? There's a strong chance it could improve. Such a good cast, hopefully it won't die a quick death before it can be turned around.
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This is truly awful. It's not even the writing so much as the completely pedestrian delivery of lines and lack of compelling direction. I mean...there's some stuff here that SHOULD be funny, and it's not. At all. The mistress wanting to go to couples counseling COULD be pretty hysterical. It ain't. Herc nailed it. 'Mercilessly unfunny' indeed. Click.
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His sitcom never shoulda been cancelled in the first place. Maybe during sweeps Stacy Keach can show up and call his character a "wussy."
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of gay people on TV is falling, its good to see the number of Tranny's on TV is on the ole UP AND UP! This show blew, Chris Titus is a horrible actor and so is the Jewish guy. And Dial it in McDermott and the Alias guy aren't even trying. Its like they got there scrpit right before each take and tried to remember it best they could. Plus the chicks on this show are like Greys Anatomy Ugly.
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Trust.
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for folks who only have basic cable, Fox, CE and My Net go to bed at ten, leaving the homely "Without A Trace" and that doctor show I never got into, "ER". So with noting good on, i gave "Big Shit" a try. The cast is good - you got Guy from Practice, guy from Alias, guy from West Wing and guy from Titus, plus girls from Third Watch and NYPD Blue. Plus the actress playing the mistress is cute and even the drag queen was kinda hot. The problem - well, other than the writing and acting, both of which had certain flaws - is that iIreally don't want to be or know any of these people. It's not the world I aspire to. I like night time soap operas. I watch Desperate housewives and Grey's Anatomy/Private Practice. I checked out "Dirty Sexy Money" and will probably watch it again. But "Big shots" just isn't in their league. it just didn't cut it. There's always the internets...
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