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...dumb adult show that really wants to be a smart kid's show. Manhattan, AZ, the sitcom that follows it (not created by the P&P guys), is gutsier and more promising. It's also about a life change: this time a married undercover L.A. cop becomes a widowed small-town sheriff. Like The War Next Door, it's plenty weird. The pilot's best joke comes midway through, when the main character says he's noticed that his son has changed since his mother died--and the camera pans to show that the kid is now played...
Most of these lawyers grew up working class or as outsiders. Scruggs and most members of his tobacco and HMO litigation teams were born in the small-town South. Jamail is the son of Lebanese immigrants. Levin is the son of a Jewish pawnbroker. Angelos, a child of Greek immigrants, put himself through law school working in his family's tavern. Most started out small. Reaud began by representing workers in the East Texas petrochemical industry who had smashed their fingers and toes at work. In Levin's first case, he won a $50,000 verdict against an insurance company...
...riot shields and ease Big Earl to the floor while the others wrap blankets around him and slide him outside. A tall man, Huff cautiously leads the charge, clutching Earl, hoping not to hurt him and praying not to get sued. He knows mental patients don't belong in small-town jails, but where else can they go? What else...
...most ingenious is The League of Gentlemen, a genre-defying black comedy that combines the sketch humor of Python with the small-town horror of Twin Peaks. Set in the fictional English hamlet Royston Vasey, it intertwines the stories of more than 60 characters, male and female--all played by three men--from the abusive counselor at the town unemployment center ("I know they've put monkeys in space, but do you really think they'll have one driving a fire engine?") to the reactionary proprietor couple of a local shop (named the Local Shop), who plot to stop...
...Small-town man buys bowling alley and chases girl of his high school dreams...