CBS Midseason Pilot Review: Friends with Better Lives - Premieres March 31 - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

TJ · 03-31-2014, 12:27 PM

Friends with Better Lives - Mondays at 8:30PM ET/PT on CBS
Premieres Monday, March 31, 2014 at 9:00PM ET/PT

As we come of age, we all think that we're the ones suffering, and it's our friends who have the better lives. So, naturally, that would be the premise of the latest sitcom on CBS, Friends with Better Lives. The series follows a married couple (Andi and Bobby), a divorced man (Will), a soon-to-be-engaged couple (Kate and Lowell), and the eternally obnoxious one who finds the flaws in everybody (Jules). So who really has the better life? That's what this CBS series tries to answer, in sitcom form.

Read our review of the pilot here:
http://blog.sitcomsonline.com/2014/0...ends-with.html

TMC · 04-01-2014, 12:36 AM

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...,1907461.story

The comedy starring James Van Der Beek and Kevin Connolly has "a professional, even a grim efficiency to the jokes," says Robert Lloyd, "which approach like B-52 bombers, drop their punch lines and head back to base. There are breast jokes, genital jokes, a long oral sex joke, an alcoholic-sorority-girl-defecating-in-a-closet joke. A few hit, many miss. The war goes on." PLUS: The pilot is so awful it has nowhere to go but up, it's wrapped in 100 percent market-proven cardboard humor, and what Van Der Beek learned from "Don't Trust the B---."
Read more at http://www.hitfix.com/tv-tattle#VgeIvhpl3JMpRWhF.99

comedyfreak · 04-01-2014, 01:40 PM

I forgot to record this one, maybe next week.

Mace Dolex · 05-01-2014, 02:32 PM

It'll last until the Fall when something else takes it's place although I doubt it will be better.

03-31-2014, 12:27 PM	#1
TJ Site Owner Administrator Forum Star Join Date: Feb 03, 2000 Location: Marietta, GA Posts: 10,648	CBS Midseason Pilot Review: Friends with Better Lives - Premieres March 31 Friends with Better Lives - Mondays at 8:30PM ET/PT on CBS Premieres Monday, March 31, 2014 at 9:00PM ET/PT As we come of age, we all think that we're the ones suffering, and it's our friends who have the better lives. So, naturally, that would be the premise of the latest sitcom on CBS, Friends with Better Lives. The series follows a married couple (Andi and Bobby), a divorced man (Will), a soon-to-be-engaged couple (Kate and Lowell), and the eternally obnoxious one who finds the flaws in everybody (Jules). So who really has the better life? That's what this CBS series tries to answer, in sitcom form. Read our review of the pilot here: http://blog.sitcomsonline.com/2014/0...ends-with.html

04-01-2014, 12:36 AM	#2
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 124,387	CBS' "Friends with Better Lives" really does want to be the new "Friends" http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...,1907461.story The comedy starring James Van Der Beek and Kevin Connolly has "a professional, even a grim efficiency to the jokes," says Robert Lloyd, "which approach like B-52 bombers, drop their punch lines and head back to base. There are breast jokes, genital jokes, a long oral sex joke, an alcoholic-sorority-girl-defecating-in-a-closet joke. A few hit, many miss. The war goes on." PLUS: The pilot is so awful it has nowhere to go but up, it's wrapped in 100 percent market-proven cardboard humor, and what Van Der Beek learned from "Don't Trust the B---." Read more at http://www.hitfix.com/tv-tattle#VgeIvhpl3JMpRWhF.99

04-01-2014, 01:40 PM	#3
comedyfreak Cheers! Forum Fanatic Join Date: Dec 14, 2005 Location: Sunny California Posts: 11,058	I forgot to record this one, maybe next week.
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05-01-2014, 02:32 PM	#4
Mace Dolex Member Senior Member Join Date: Aug 12, 2013 Posts: 2,660	It'll last until the Fall when something else takes it's place although I doubt it will be better.