Hey, know what we need around here? ‘Nother comedy on Thursdays on a major network. About several couples. Which is… not funny, especially.
If this sounds suspiciously like CBS’ Rules of Engagement, you are correct. Only, it’s worse. at least has Patrick Warburton to offer, as well as at least the outside chance that David Spade might revert desperately into the schtick which made him and suddenly turn to the cameras, launching into an impromptu “Spade on Hollywood.” Perfect Couples? It has… um, pretty colors.
Perfect Couples airs on NBC (DISH 241), Thursdays at 8:30 PM EST. Via
Some of the one- liners are funny (“I went to a hotel. It was worse than I thought. They made me sign up for a rewards program. And then I had to watch some movie with Kate Hudson and an Australian guy whose accent kept coming out!”) but honestly, they’re not good enough to suffer through the rest of what the series offers, which are gender stereotypes, thin ‘n’ boring plots, and one- dimensional characters.
And since single one- dimensional characters aren’t enough, this sucker spreads ‘em across two people: This couple is immature and fights a whole bunch! This one is insufferably smug and lives on psychobabble! This one is Just Like You and Me! (except.. not really. I really hope my husband and I are not this boring, but even if we were, I wouldn’t put us on national television and ask Dodge Trucks to sponsor us.)
The debut of Perfect Couples marks the growing trend of ushering in new programs after winter hiatus as major hits are spread thinner and thinner across the calendar (the next episode of Glee? Super Bowl Sunday, which itself used to be in January.) While that’s good for us viewers– more variety more frequently, with less of a chance that true gems might get lost in the fall rush– if the output continues to be like this annoying 24 minutes, then it’s irredeemably bad, bad, bad.
