Review

  • Warning: Spoilers
    If you liked Friends and How I met your mother, you might feel tempted to check this one out. I wouldn't recommend it though. This is serious trying to be funny or maybe funny trying to be serious, and it fails either way. It turns around Ethan who's married to Lisa, but has had an affair with Sam for about 20 years, ever since college. When Ethan gets nervous he starts doing silly voices, and i guess this is supposed to be funny except it isn't really. Furthermore we are supposed to believe that he's an award winning author, which doesn't seem very likely considering his behavior. He just doesn't strike me as someone who can write anything meaningful. It also defies belief that the 2 women should be in love with him. There's a bit of sex, but not much and since the humor is mostly silly (and not in a good way), it's very hard to take the conflicts seriously. The acting is OK mostly, but the actors seem confused about whether this is comedy or not. Cobie Smulders does all right in the comedy bits, Greg Germann does the same thing he did on Ally MacBeal and Fred Savage....well i prefer to remember him from The wonder years. The guy who plays Ethan is so over the top that what he does hardly deserves to be called acting. The only one who stands out is Annie Parisse as Sam, who works very hard to make the serious parts seem believable, but is let down by weak scripts. Anyway if you have four hours of spare time ..... spend them on something else !