He's a irresponsible slacker surfer in his thirties who lives at home with his dad and whose claim to fame is treating women like shit and having a gambling addiction, so OF COURSE she hires him to redo her kitchen while taking all of her strength to not bend over and present her scent to him despite being a very successful attorney and, you know, LOOKING LIKE AMANDA FUCKING PEETE!!!!
AAAAARRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!
HERE we go - minutes into meeting her he repeatedly berates her about what a joyless stick-in-the-mud she is, dropping sexual innuendo about every 4 seconds, and of course instead of firing him or telling him to get to work and shut the fuck up she "spars" with him with something I guess the writers think is "repartee." GEE, she's dating a doctor who's an uptight, responsible stick-in-the-mud whom our hero the irresponsible slacker king (ISK) makes fun of and tells her they're never gonna have sex, which she refutes but OH GEE BIG SHOCKER, they don't have sex. And oh yeah, much like many female attorneys, she seems to have all the time in the world to hang around her house in the middle of the day while ISK berates her. Of course! GEE, LET ME guess, will our girl come to realize "gee, he's right, I really need to loosen up!!!"?? If I was a genius I might guess that an upcoming scene has her ditching an important meeting with a client to go surfing with him, but gee, I just can't crack the calculus of this show!!!!!
This isn't a Sam & Diane/Dave & Maddie "will they or won't they?" thing, this is a "how long are they gonna make us suffer through horrible 'repartee' (again!) before they just shut the fuck up and do it already?" thing. For fuck's sake, do the "I hate you!" "Not as much as I hate you!" slap and then kiss scene alfuckingready. Christ.
And what are they gonna do when the job, which I would think would only be a few weeks, is over? LET ME GUESS - have him around permanently, which isn't even original a la Murphy Brown.
Another thing is I spent half the pilot thinking that ISK was a scruffied-up Dylan from Modern Family (he's not), which only served to remind me of a truly great show, which made Bent look, incredibly, even worse, much like when Futurama first came out and you thought "Gee, this looks like The Simpsons...now THAT'S a great show...which I'd much rather be watching, as a matter of fact..."
REDEEMABLE QUALITIES: Inexplicably, the cast includes Leon from Curb Your Enthusiasm and Landry from Friday Night Lights; hopefully the writers will wise up and instead of spending so much time on the main turds will say fuck it, let's focus more on Leon/Landry, much in the same way Will and Grace the main characters were insufferable but Jack and whatever the mean woman's name was were pretty funny. It's not a great sign when any time your two lead characters walk onscreen there's an audible groan from the audience. Also, like everyone else on the planet I loves me some Jeffrey Tambor, but after two episodes I already feel like his over-the-topness is eye-rolling and exhausting.
THE ONE GOOD LINE: Some woman in ISK's Gambling Anonymous group saying the LA Clippers were her trigger.
I'll give this a few more tries, only to see if more time shifts to the rest of the cast. I'll keep you posted.
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