'Happy Endings' premiere review: Did it end well for you?

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After watching some recent episodes of friends hanging End waiting-com happy, I have to say is ... not bad. The premise is that the late Alex (24's Elisha Cuthbert) left Dave (Zachary Knighton FastForward is) on the altar at the first premiere episode that aired Wednesday night.

Now your friends in common - desperate Penny Singleton (Saturday Night Live Casey Wilson), married-couple Brad (Damon Wayans, Jr.) and Jane (Eliza Scrubs' Coupe) and Max (Adam Pally) - We all try to support Alex and Dave with the same affection. The initial concept seems to be that the group finds this strange, but by the second episode, Alex and David are dating other people and the issue hardly arises. The coup came fast and furious lines (credit managers such as Joe and Anthony Russo Community, and John Fortenberry for Hung of rhythm), and traded heavily abbreviated reference: Dave is not only dating a lot, for example, is "data-John Mayer-a-lot." He spends much time drinking and not just talk about sex. (See Cougar Town for the new model of fuel alcohol crudity somehow manages to get drunk just naughty.)


Plan as a comedy, Friends has proved very influential. Since its success from 1994 to 2004, which replaced the workplace-like format of comedy that made large audiences, most young people feel welcome. Gender friends-hanging out - the friend-com? - May be from the gross amount of a charming (Always Sunny in Philadelphia) to the forgettable awful (anyone remember Fox 2006 Happy hours, canceled after four episodes?). Current examples of the pal-com include the deadly stoplight most underrated comedy (and unfortunately, I guess, now canceled) NBC's Perfect Couple, and the aforementioned Cougar Town, who beat them all up and newcomers.

Terminations tries too hard to push pop culture phrases. One type is "trapped in chicksand" Jane is proud to be a charming adult: "I am the main heroine" Penny works of the highest praise - "a-MAH-zing!" - Until you see the tension.

However, there was a quirky energy for the premiere (and the second episode, the better) that I found kind of ingratiating. And the show is trying to do something a little different in the way it presents Max as a gay man who is as much exaggerated comedy, reality television-style gay.

Or maybe you find the program grid? Bought Elisha Cuthbert as an advantage of comedy? Let me know below.