NBC Cancels "Perfect Couples"
by Maggie Furlong
posted May 13th 2011


NBC has axed freshman Thursday night comedy "Perfect Couples".

"Perfect Couples" got a little more praise when it premiered midseason -- but not much.

http://www.tvsquad.com/2011/05/13/nbc-cancels-outsourced-perfect-couples-chase-more/

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Thoughts: Perfect Couples (https://web.archive.org/web/20140407134705/http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/topic/3201286-perfect-couples/?view=getnewpost) is one of network TV’s many post-2004 derivations of Friends. Heck, it was even co-created by a former Friends scribe — with an ensemble of six attractive 30(ish)-year-old buddies who together comprise three separate romantic couples, thus naturally creating a Friends-ian storytelling apparatus of relationship-led rom-com fare, usually in three two-character plots-per-episode. So, although this is also a then-standard single-cam in accordance with NBC’s post-Earl Thursday night brand – and it’s notably suburban-set instead of urban-based — it really feels like stuff we’ve seen before. This lack of imagination in the premise isn’t an issue though — there are finite premises in the low-concept space. The problem is the character work, which lacks specificity.