I've been rather eagerly awaiting the premier of the series The Class. the ads for it have been very good - a series of them showing the main characters in an elementary school spelling bee. very good ads, very funny.
funnier than the show, i'm afraid.
well, that's the crib notes version of the review.
it was... okay. my biggest peeve is the frikkin laugh track. geez, do they really think the public is so stupid that we won't know when to laugh? (er, um, okay, granted, most of the public IS that stupid, but that's a rant for another time.) actually, they probably added the laugh track because it was cheaper than getting good script.
truthfully, it bears a couple of more viewings. some series even take a season or two to find themselves. so, i'll stay tuned, for a couple more weeks anyway.
it reminds me of Friends and thirtysomething, kind of a cross between the two. my gut reaction to the show was why would i want to watch something that highlights how fucked up -my- life is? i'm thinking back to thirtysomething (which was one of my favorite shows) and i remember that people either loved it or hated it, saying who'd want to watch yuppies complaining about their lives? i was a fan, and now i wonder if i liked it because maybe that period of my life wasn't so bad.
anyway, let's see what happens. I'll give it a 5.5 outta 10, but with potential.
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