Cool News
Do The Critics Find ABC’s New Alyssa Milano Situation Comedy ROMANTICALLY CHALLENGED A Real Challenge To Watch??
I am – Hercules!!
A new sitcom from writer Ricky Blitt (“Family Guy,” “The Winner,” “The Ringer”), the writing team of Andrew Reich & Ted Cohen (“Friends”) and producer-director James Burrows (also “Friends”), “Romantically Challenged” centers on a recently divorced attorney and single mother re-entering the dating pool following 15 years of marriage. It stars Alyssa Milano (“Charmed,” “My Name Is Earl”), Kelly Stables (“Greek,” “Two and a Half Men”), Kyle Bornheimer (“Worst Week”) and Australian Josh Lawson (“Chandon Pictures”).
ABC is running it after its top show, “Dancing With The Stars,” so many will watch it. The network also, perhaps daunted by the reviews “Romantically” has already received, apparently pulled its premiere episode from its press site before I could get a look at it.
Entertainment Weekly says:
… is like that guy you go out with because, well, he's not the dumbest person you've ever met, and he does occasionally make you laugh (but you don't exactly care if you see him again).…
USA Today says:
… as terrible as Romantically is, it is in the end more puzzling than insulting. Why would any studio or network waste a star like Milano on a show that would seem to have virtually no chance of survival? …
The New York Times says:
… The humor is secondhand and stale — one-liners about being gay and sleeping around — and made all the more painful by the waves of canned laughter that wash up and crash against all-too-familiar sets, like a bachelor pad, living room and coffeehouse. …
The Los Angeles Times says:
… not a total disaster. (Broadcast-network sitcoms attached to James Burrows rarely are.) But it is not what I would call good. …
The Washington Post says:
… robotically assembled from spare parts, including a coffeehouse where the same booth is always available for too-sharply-focused banter among nitwits. … What, you're not laughing? That could be because all the jokes are about sex and appear to have been salvaged from "How I Met Your Mother's" Goodwill donation box. …
The Dallas Morning News says:
… That premise, unfortunately, is the funniest thing about this run-of-the-mill show, which serves up only lukewarm laughs and feels derivative throughout. …
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette says:
… feels like it was beamed in from the mid-'90s, a leftover hammock show that would have filled time on NBC's Thursday night schedule while viewers waited for "Friends" or "Seinfeld" to come on (think: "The Single Guy" or "Union Square").… the show is likely to be challenged in efforts to woo viewers back after they watch this weak debut.
The Boston Herald says:
… Bornheimer, as he demonstrated in CBS’ short-lived “Worst Week,” can handle broad physical comedy, but neither he nor Milano can breathe life into such flat scripts. …
The Boston Globe says:
… a one-note, gender-backward concoction that plays like a redundant stand-up comedy act. …
The Hollywood Reporter says:
… seems preoccupied with keeping the beat for a steady rhythm of jokes, even as it challenges viewers to ignore the implausibility of its premise. …
Variety says:
… should rightfully be titled "Comedically Challenged." The allure of watching Alyssa Milano in this four-character ensemble sitcom provides small compensation for a litany of tired, warmed-over sex jokes. …
9:30 p.m. Monday. ABC.
Shipping This Week!!
58 Blu-rays Under $10!!
-
+ Expand All
-
my first huge, year spanning celebrity crush when i was a wee lad, i will give you a chance and watch the first episode. but i dont like sitcoms so i probably won't watch again. but starring at you for 30mins will never be regretted.
-
filmed in front of a live studio ostrich
-
G.O.R.G.E.O.U.S.
-
WHERE are the last two episodes. Just put them on your fucking website, ABC.
-
But I don't know if they'd keep tuning in for that. Unless it was like Baywatch, and made her body like a star of the show in its own right.
-
BOW DOWN, CHUMPS. Where's Angela?
-
"I don't want no bromance with you!""Aw, come on!"(Whacky, slightly gay, title sequence rolls)
-
I mean seriously, when is the last time a sitcom which lasted a long time had a good pilot? The first half of the first season of Friends is unbearable, but it stayed on for how many years?
Give it a chance people. -
But see, I had to go back 25 years to think of a good one.
-
There, I shaved off about 9 years. :-)
-
Anyone remember that show? Another "30+ woman looks for love" kinda thing which was watched by so few people, it was canceled after an episode? She sure is fun to look at though. How about a show with Alyssa and Heather starring as lovers?
-
getting laid? I will watch this of course, since the lead-in is DWTS and that's how I'm wired.
-
Apr 19, 2010 9:30:27 AM CDT
This reminds me of that Heather Locklear/Hillary Duff movie
by yackbacker
Where no middle-aged man wants to bang Heather Locklear. What?
-
Sorry if you don't like it, but it's true.30 Rock's pilot was okay. Indicative of the show that followed anyway.
-
Translation: will be a huge hit. And with Two and a Half Men rumoured to be ending, viewers looking for brainless fluff will need someplace to go.
-
And needs a show more like that than this crap sitcom.
-
since she has a kid, that's a huge stigma that many men can't get past regardless how hot the woman may be.
-
If a woman with a kid wants to get laid, she hires a babysitter, goes out and gets laid.No bloke automatically expects his one night pickup to take him back to her place. She may have problems finding a guy who wants a relationship with her (and raise another mans kid) but that has nothing to do with getting laid.
-
What guy would be turned off by a Locklear/Duff sandwich? Fuck, I'd be stepdaddy in a minute to that situation.
-
In these economic times how does a network explain spending the millions of dollars it takes to launch such idiotic crap!
-
I swear she's hotter now than she was 10 years ago.
-
How much does she she her tits? Totally? Does she not wear a bra? 'Cause her tits were the ONLY things keeping CHARMED on the air all those years(along with Rose McGowans tits and,to a lesser extent,Holly Marie Combs' tits)
-
I saw the test for this last year and didn't think too highly of it then. Interesting that they dropped Eric Christian Olsen from the cast and picked up Josh Lawson. It's also interesting how they have seemed to refocus the story on Alyssa Milano more than the two guys (who could blame them, whatever crap is happening she is still fun to watch.) Frankly, it wasn't that memorable but I am curious to see how it differs from what I saw (I saw the test for The Deep End that same week) and that was just about identical to what aired, if memory serves. Just shows how long these freakin things sit.
-
first hit the airwaves. Our local guy, Mike Duffy in Detroit ripped it to shreds, and therefore I never watched it, til about 3 months later when EVERYONE was watching it.
-
We need your support and trust!!!
welcome to http://www.toaaa.com
♀♂here ! wholesale and retail shoes,sunglasses,t-shirts,clothes??
men?ˉs jeans
armani jeans, coogi jeans, evisu jeans, g-star jeans, antik denim jeans, rtful dodger jeans, bbc jeans, d&g jeans, diesel jeans, ed hardy jeans, rock jeans, true religion jeans
men?ˉs clothing
clh clothing, artful dodger clothing, bape clothing, , evisu clothing, gino green global clothing, lrg clothing, parish clothing, bbc clothing, ed hardy clothing
dior wallet purse, chanel wallet purse, gucci wallet purse, lv wallet purse and sunglasses,cap etc.
our clientele varies from one-price retail operations, major multi-store chains, to independent value-priced apparel outlets as well as mass merchants.
please kindly visite our website: http://www.toaaa.com -
I don't buy it.
-
That is all.
-
a half-hour highlight reel from Embrace of the Vampire.
-
the comic timing of, say, a Christina Applegate. Since ABC airs these rom-coms following Dancing With The Stars, why not just air a half hour of kittens, and puppies and babies for the estrogen-rich audience.
-
in other words, screw you herc, you cocksucking joss whedon plaything, you!
-
When is the last time anything with a laugh track was actually funny? I thought ABC had finally figured out the sitcom at long last with The Middle, Modern Family & Cougar Town. No laugh track = funny. Laugh track = According to Jim.
-
If they need any help editing that Embrace of the Vampire highlight reel, I think I still have all the wank-worthy spots memorized from fast-forwarding and rewinding my old VHS copy about 500 times.
-
I'd have fucked that chick on the floor in front of my Grandma without batting an eyelash since the time she was 16 ... so yeah, it's a bit hard to buy any show where she's having trouble getting a date.
-
"Alyssa Milano
Dirt-has actually eaten shit; on one movie set in Canada, she infuriated a propmaster and after bitching him out, she ordered him to get her something off the craft services table (food bar). He got her a hot dog, but before giving it to her, shoved his shit in it using a pen's inkwell" -
... sure is a hot little thing.
-
how is this possible?
-
the replies you gentlemen give me leads me to believe that all of you are "FUCKING GAY COCKSUCKING ASSHOLES!"
-
I need you.
-
still I won't be watching this unless Milano gets nekkid and then maybe.
-
......Cougar Town, and,....you know, funny.
Plus Courtney Cox is Milfiliciously hawt, and that blonde chick (Busy Phillips I believe?) plays slutty dingbat the way it was written in the Dictionary.
This isn't to say that Alyssa is not hot. She totally is. So much so that I'm having trouble believing that she would have trouble getting laid at any stage or phase of her life :- Teeenager, Married, Pregnant (and barefoot), Overwieght, Divorced (and slim again), Mature (Milfy) and finally Senior.
All fuckable - with hardly any effort on her part. -
Don't care if that makes me a bad person. Treating people like shit, especially the people who get you your food, is the stupidity of LEGEND.
Readers Talkback
User Login
Top Talkbacks
- G.I. JOE: RETALIATION Delayed Nine Months...Thanks To A Force More Sinister Than Cobra!! -- 214 total posts 213 posts
- THE DARK KNIGHT RISES TV Spot Has New Footage And Dialogue! UPDATED To Add Second Spot! -- 160 total posts 160 posts
- Who Is The Voice Of Batman In WB's Animated Two Part THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS? -- 154 total posts 154 posts
- Cats Beware!! An ALF Movie May Soon Come Our Way... -- 148 total posts 147 posts
- UPDATED!!! A Six-Pack Of New Character Posters For THE DARK KNIGHT RISES Forecast A Lot Of Gotham Rain And Snow!! -- 269 total posts 80 posts
- Gary Oldman Joins The ROBOCOP Remake! -- 76 total posts 76 posts
- AICN COMICS REVIEWS: INCREDIBLE HULK! DANGER CLUB! CLiNT 2.1! JAMES BOND! BATMAN INC.! AND MORE!!! -- 67 total posts 67 posts
- Baz's THE GREAT GATSBY explodes with one helluva dazzling trailer! -- 187 total posts 63 posts
- The Behind the Scenes Pic of the Day… the horror… the horror… -- 49 total posts 49 posts
- Zach Galifianakis Is Ignatius J. Reilly? -- 84 total posts 49 posts