I thought I’d give ABC’s latest “plight of the modern man” sitcom at least 2 episodes before I passed judgement. All signs pointed immediately to the pits of despair, but since the pilot involved so much setup and the much-maligned burly-dude-dresses-as-a-woman-to-get-a-job premise has actually had some unlikely but substantial success in films like Tootsie and […]
The new Charlie’s Angels has more problems than anything that should ever have made it to series. First there’s the simple issue of the outdated premise- one Hollywood seems to think is “classic” and everyone else knows to be played out. There’s the tone- the franchise thrives as a comedy (see the tongue-in-cheek films and […]