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...plots center on financial skulduggery, and almost invariably the villain is the least developed principal character, typically a faceless mid-level manager who shows unrecognized ingenuity in concocting a scam. The team's prose is always easy and mildly amusing. While offering less psychological insight than the average TV sitcom, it convincingly conveys the general corporate mindset and the nubby details of an industry, this time home appliances. The liveliest scenes depict Thatcher's bickering colleagues; the folkways and preening of high financiers are observed with utter lack...
...SITCOMS CAN SOMETIMES BE THE SADdest places on TV. Whenever you see a new one with a star who rarely does television, there's usually a tale about dried-up movie roles or a career on the downswing. The latest actress to come crawling back is Shelley Long, who left Cheers six years ago for a movie career that has gone nowhere. In GOOD ADVICE (CBS, debuting April 2), she plays a marriage counselor whose sunny outlook is dashed when she discovers that her husband has been cheating on her. In the usual sitcom way, her real family...
...BOTTOM LINE: Filmmakers with sitcom sensibilities aim for sober truth and end up in gloomy muddle...
...avoid the false good cheer of the typical family drama. But it has been replaced by the equally false gloominess that often passes for seriousness in Hollywood. Jack the Bear plays as if Maxim Gorky had for some reason been asked to try his hand at a sitcom...
...authors have taken a standard sitcom premise -- mismatched people, in this case Scott as a college professor and Jami Gertz as the barely literate young volunteer who reads to him because he is blind -- then lumbered it with portentous yet unpursued references to battered women, child abuse, academic plagiarism, organized crime and the Bataan Death March (not to mention Beethoven's deafness, Baudelaire's profligacy and the evolutionary significance of the animal in the title). Despite these highfalutin distractions, the story trudges along to its always foreseeable end: the old man dies but lives on in the young woman...