First let me get to the good stuff, "Men of a Certain Age" came bundled in an awesome package. The outside of the mailing box was made to look like a cassette tape container and the show itself was bundled on a 2 gig reusable USB key which resembled a cassette tape. This packaging had me very excited about the prospects of a new comedy from the network that claims to know drama, TNT.
Sadly, once the show got started I was less than thrilled. Either this was a slow screener episode with few moments of levity, let alone laugh out loud funny bits or I am simply not of a certain age that would enjoy this series (I know that was a bit of an obvious joke, but I can't help myself sometimes).
Watching this show on the computer had a few downsides, for example, my computer screen was dark and reflective in my viewing environment and I simply could not find the best viewing angle. More unfortunate however was the way the computer was constantly ticking how much time was left in the episode. I made an unconsciousness point to look down on the time remaining gauge almost every 30 seconds and that makes me believe the show was less than engaging.
The show was co-created by Ray Ramano but it seems to have none of the charm that worked for him in "Everybody Loves Raymond". While I do like all of the actors in this series what they had to do in this episode was boring and depressing. If "Men of a Certain Age" was billed as a drama with comedic tones I think I might be willing to give it another chance, but being a half hour comedy I simply should not have been this bored, this long.
Therefore, "Men of a Certain Age" should be passed up at any age!
2 comments:
It's billed as a drama with comedic moments.
Sam,
I guess that's fair, I haven't been too on top of the press for this show. But it is a half hour show (at least the screener ran just under 22 minutes) staring Ray Ramano. I think this one is going to have a hard time finding an audience.
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