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Same here. Fifteen minutes into the first episode and I was ready to turn it off just because of the silly sitcom part. But I stuck it out for some reason thinking it couldn't get any worse, and I figured there had to be a purpose for the sitcom scenes. I think it's an interesting series. I also think you get used to the sitcom parts and take them for what they are-a jab at the stupidity of most sitcoms over the years.
That's exactly the purpose of the sitcom part - schlub husband who is still a 15 YO with a hot wife who does everything for him.
I would watch if it were just a sitcom.
I would watch if it were just the drama part.
The juxtaposition of both does a good job highlighting her inner turmoil while caricaturizing him as a clownish buffoon.
It's riffing a genre, not a specific show. There have been sitcoms with idiot men who have beautiful capable wives since the 1950s.
I read an excellent criticism of this show (I think in EW?) that says the sitcom part doesn't accurately portray the wife as usual in these shows. Usually the wife has her own strength, which the audience recognizes. In the sitcom part of Kevin . . . the wife is just portrayed as weak and emotionally abused, which would be more typical of stereotypical tv dramas, not sitcoms. And the whole romance with the guy in the coffee shop belongs in a different show. The writers should have concentrated on the wife plotting to kill her husband in various ways.
So the show doesn't work for me.
The character of the female neighbor is really well done, though, IMHO.
Really enjoying this show. Fresh, different, well-done, and very entertaining.
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