1980 Called, It Wants Its Sitcom Back! (Work It)

[Brian Damage]

For entirely perverse reasons, this is one of the upcoming shows we're actually most excited about. Work It, in which two straight men pose as women in order to get jobs, doesn't just look unfunny or mediocre — though, that too — it looks misguided on a higher level. Like Homeboys in Outer Space level. Yes, Bosom Buddies made this premise sort of work, but that was 30 years ago. There's little chance of anything working here, between the lady-hating macho paranoia that's driving the plot and the overgrown man-child behavior that's sustaining it. And then there's the drag: This isn't 1980, and the characters' absolutely dreadful cross-dressing wouldn't fool a blind grandma living in Osh Kosh. Though, in its own way, that too makes us eager for the show to begin: We can't wait to have the judges of Drag Race tear this thing apart.

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