I watched two episodes of the show, and
it's okay. I would say it's better than most sitcoms
that have been on TBS. It's not hilarious. The first
episode was a bit dull and every joke was obvious.
It's too bad because it has some great actors, like
Richard Dreyfuss and JoBeth Williams. I don't think
JoBeth has done sitcoms before because she's not doing
well in the pilot episode. Dreyfuss is always fantastic.
However, in the second episode, I did laugh quite a lot.
The show is about a married couple,
Oliver (Kyle Howard) and Kelli (Kat Foster), who each
have very different families, all living in Seattle.
Oliver's mom doesn't much like Kelli or her other
daughter-in-law, and Kelli's family barely tolerates
Oliver. In the first episode, Oliver and Kelli visit his
family, the Westons (he has two brothers). His mother is
kind of bitchy and they all say inappropriate and weird
things. Oliver and Kelli had put a nanny cam in their
house, so they all watched the nanny, a college girl,
and spied on her, making rude remarks. It just wasn't
good, in any way.
In the second episode, they visit Kelli's
family, the Durnins, for her sister Dani's birthday. Her
parents are played by two really good, solid actors,
Cynthia Stevenson and Ed Begley, Jr. Her two sisters are
kind of bimbos or idiots. Lots of funny things do
happen in this episode, but there are also some unfunny,
cringe-worthy moments.
The show is very uneven. I hope it gets
better with time. Kelli and Oliver are very likable. I
would say, compared to other TBS shows, I don't like it
as much as I did "Men at Work," but I do like it a lot
better than "Sullivan & Son" or "Ground Floor." Check it
out for yourself!
MORE INFORMATION:
It has been said that when you marry someone, you marry
their entire family. Nowhere is that more evident than
in TBS's Your
Family or Mine, a brand new series that
puts a unique twist on that time-honored television
favorite – the domestic comedy.Kyle
Howard (Royal Pains, My Boys), Kat
Foster ('Til Death, Royal Pains), Richard
Dreyfuss (The Goodbye Girl, The
American President), JoBeth
Williams (Poltergeist, Dexter), Ed
Begley Jr (St. Elesewhere, Arrested
Development) Cynthia
Stevenson (Agent Cody Banks, Hope & Gloria)
star in the comedy, which is set to debut on TBS Tuesday,
April 7, at 10 p.m. (ET/PT).
Your Family or Mine centers on Kelli (Foster)
and Oliver (Howard), a married couple living in Seattle
with their two children. The show follows them as they
alternate visits each week between their respective
parents and in-laws. Oliver's parents, Louis (Dreyfuss)
and Ricky (Williams), are extremely comfortable
financially, but that just makes their household all the
more eccentric. Meanwhile, Kelli's parents, Gil (Begley)
and Jan (Stevenson), may not have all the money in the
world, but they have each other. Also featured in Your
Family or Mine are Danny
Comden (I'm With Her) Jason andAndrew
Lees (The Pacific) as Blake, Oliver's
brothers; Angela
Kinsey (The Office) as Claire, Jason's
wife; and Stephanie
Hunt (Friday Night Lights) as Dani,
Kelli's younger sister.
Adapted from an enormously popular Israeli comedy from Keshet
International, Your Family or Mine is
being executive produced by Greg
Malins (Friends, How I Met Your Mother,
Will & Grace); Jamie
Tarses (Happy Endings, Franklin & Bash);
Keshet's Rubi Duanias,
Yaniv Polishuk, Avi Nir and Ran
Telem; and Teddy Producitons' Tamira
Yardeni. The series is being produced by Sony
Pictures Television, Jamie Tarses' Fanfare
Productions, Keshet International and Teddy
Productions. In addition, recurring guest
star, Collette Wolfe (Cougar
Town) plays Shawni, Kelli's older sister, with Adrian
Gonzalez as Enzo, Shawni's boyfriend.
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