Worst Week Premieres Monday, September 22 at 9:30pm ET/PT on CBS

[Pavan]

See our review of the first episode:

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/blog/20...orst-week.html

[rosered]

I'm glad to hear the pilot is so funny! i'll definitely be watching on monday.. and i'm confident that it'll last...

[TMC]

Short-Lived Sitcom Potpourri (XXVII) – Late ’00s CBS Monday Flops

Unfortunately, this show’s British origins remain evident. Worst Week can’t help but be idea-driven, via a rigid construct where the groom-to-be is the maker of all the bedlam, and everyone else just fills positional roles based on that fact, with few details personalizing them beyond this basic premise. Specifically, his fiancée/wife has no personality whatsoever, and his in-laws are only there to be disapproving and humiliated because their daughter is committed to such an abject bumbler, for whom everything goes wrong. It’s funny… but it would be funny with anybody and with most writing. Meaning — it’s basic situation comedy, because it’s comedy based on a situation, but that situation, and the elements upholding it, are not specific or unique enough to make for anything truly great. What’s more, after the first ten produced episodes, the show seems to drop its eponymous “week” concept entirely, adopting an episodic routine that relies exclusively on this low-concept “clumsy son-in-law” dynamic. This move only emphasizes just how underdeveloped everything is without the benefit of the original time-based high concept, which had at least elevated the comic tension and justified an idea-driven focus.