GO ON: TUESDAYS 9PM ON NBC
WHAT IT’S SAYING: Chandler Bing… um, Matthew Perry is back! Still sarcastically quipping to hide his deeper feelings after all these years.
WHAT IT’S REALLY SAYING: Also back: Dear John. With a dash of a (less bizarre) Community, as the oddball grief counseling group bands together to do strange yet charming things. The Will-They-Or-Won’t-They is already in motion with Laura Benanti’s nice therapist. The “March Sadness” bit is actually pretty great, but since every episode can’t be about Perry getting slightly less grief-stricken or monotonousness will set in fast, a lot is going to depend on the ensemble–and barely-speaking-English jokes only go so far. Also, the sentimentality (he made the silent boy speak!) will have to be held in check. Still, “better than Mr. Sunshine” isn’t a bad place to start.
GRADE: B+
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MITCH SALEM has worked on the business side of the entertainment industry for 20 years, as a senior business affairs executive and attorney for such companies as NBC, ABC, USA, Syfy, Bravo, and BermanBraun Productions, and before that, at the NY law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges. During all that, he has more or less constantly been going to the movies and watching TV, and writing about both since the 1980s. His film reviews also currently appear on screened.com and the-burg.com. In addition, he is co-writer of an episode of the television series "Felicity."
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