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HUFFINGTON
09.29.13

SUPER FUN NIGHT
premieres 9:30 p.m. EST
Oct. 2 on ABC

THE PREMISE: Rebel
Wilson’s Kimmie tries to
manage her work life as a
lawyer and quality time with
her two BFFs.

THE MILLERS
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premieres 8:30 p.m.
EST Oct. 3 on CBS.
THE PREMISE:
Retired parents
are annoying.
WHAT IT SAID TO
ME: As is the case
with Dads, this show
posits that adults who
have to spend time
with their parents
are basically living in
hell. (The memo that
apparently went out to
comedy pilot writers
this year: “Old people
are the worst! Also,
women, amirite?”)
The only thing I can
think about when I
watch The Millers is
that Margo Martindale
deserves so much
better than this, and
I wish she was free of
this show’s hackneyed,
overly broad “humor”
so she could go back to
The Americans and be
awesome on that show.

WHAT IT SAID TO ME: That absolutely nobody at ABC or on the
staff of this show has any idea of how to effectively showcase
Rebel Wilson, whose innate awesomeness is almost entirely
squandered here. Super Fun Night isn’t just bad, it’s infuriatingly
bad, given Wilson’s likability, game energy and overall potential as a
TV personality. It’s as if the whole goal of the pilot is to get viewers
to dislike every single character and want nothing to do with them
ever again. I hope this show can quickly improve on its terrible pilot,
but I fear ABC simply doesn’t know what to do with Wilson. At all.

WE ARE MEN

premieres 8:30 p.m. EST Sept. 30 on CBS.
THE PREMISE: A bunch of guys live up in an apartment complex
after divorces and breakups.
WHAT IT SAID TO ME: “Women, amirite?” The existence of this
comedy, which pretends to be brash but mainly succeeds in being more
offensive, unfunny and predictable than Dads, told me that we have
angered the gods. How else to explain the arrival of both Dads and this
collection of moronic douchebro humor in the same month? Awful.