Actually, to be fair, I agree. The episodes where she lost her virginity and Angel turned evil, and the one where her mother died, both showed a lot of acting ability. My daughter was referring more to her post-Buffy career, though.
Maybe they can convince Williams to start using cocaine again?
But even post-drugs, Williams is alright as long as they don’t let him ad-lib too much. It’ll probably suck for the reasons almost all new sitcoms suck, but I don’t think its any more doomed then any other new comedy projects.
Straight man is the harder role from an actor’s perspective.
Based on the ads, yes, it looks really terrible. It’s amazing that Robin Williams is still trying to make heartwarming comedy happen for him. That hasn’t worked in ages.
As long as Williams doesn’t call Gellar “little pooter.” 
Maybe he should put on that Patch Adams clown nose? 'Cuz that helped with that movie 
Yeah, not holding out much hope. If the writing isn’t amazing, and instead the show relies on either if their shticks at all, the flames will burn high.
Am I the only one who sees Williams as the weak link in this very short chain?
Agreed. Part of Geller’s problem is that the character of Buffy because rather harsh and unsympathetic in the last couple of seasons - deliberately so, and for sound reasons of plot and characterization. Sunnydale is a bad place, being the Slayer is profoundly dangerous and frightening, and there isn’t any sort of exit in sight - Buffy is slated to keep fighting until she dies. Most likely in fear and pain, most likely in the company of people she cares about. If anything, the not-right-ness of Buffy’s characters is under-sold - while I’m sure we’re all sick of reboots, I imagine a post-Afghanistan/Iraq Buffy would do very different things with the character.
(Actually, I’d kind of like to see that - the Scoobies broken much harder and faster in their unwinnable fight against an undead insurgency).
I don’t know about the new series (I have serious doubts) but I would TOTALLY watch this.
No, he’s not. He’s cloying, maudlin, and thoroughly unsubtle.
He’s had some good funny roles and some good dramatic roles in his life, so he’s got some talent, but they were mostly films at least 15 years ago.
Yes, the trailer looks awful, and SMG has never proven to be anything more than a one-trick stake-holding pretty pony.
I watched* Ringer.* I’m not asking for your pity. It was amusingly insane.
Really, SMG can act. I had no idea this was a “comedy” from the tiny bit I saw of it, which amounted to, “Oh no, Robin Williams…is that Sarah?”
Ooh, am I ever excited! I’m totally hoping he’ll hit us with some of his classic “gay hairdresser” shtick, with an unexpected segue into his “stern black man” and a quip about “Mr. Happy” to top it all off! That would be so awesome … in Hell.
That title is just terrible. Should’ve made a funny title to play off of something like --I don’t know… I Roberts? Ad Men? Anything! It’s like they titled it This is a Funny Show Please Watch. :dubious:
…her greatest bit of acting was when she was Faith in Buffy’s body pretending to be Buffy but bits of Faith kept “leaking though.” She absolutely nailed it. Eliza Dushku (who I love as an actress) wasn’t quite as believable. But watching SMG: as Bricker says, it was out of the ballpark.
Mom has a chance, but the rest look like hopeless duds. Even the Michael J. Fox show. The jokes about Parkinson’s disease are going to wear thin pretty quickly.
My wife & I watch Two Broke Girls, but I’ve got to admit it’s pretty cringeworthy. It’s basically a half-hour of vagina jokes, and if our son comes downstairs for whatever reason you can be sure the TV gets muted.
I watch it occasionally too, or at least it’s on while I do other things. My biggest beef with 2BGs is the Polish woman character played by Jennifer Coolidge. IMHO, the most obnoxious, annoying character on a sitcom in ages, particularly when paired with the Russian (?) cook character. Whenever she comes on or seems likely to come on the TV gets muted or the channel switched.
I haven’t really watched sitcoms in ages. I’ve seen some episodes of Whitney, which I kinda liked, but never really committed to the show. I got burned out on sitcoms after Friends and somewhere everything started to devolve to the same jokes, no matter what show. It was always “let’s pretend these characters are interacting about one thing but it sounds like they’re talking about sex/being gay”. Everything stopped being original.
This show has Robin Williams playing a constant riffing obnoxious ad man. And it’s helmed by David E. Kelley. Doom city.
Sean Saves the World…
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that the trend towards “let’s pretend these characters are interacting about one thing but it sounds like they’re talking about sex/being gay” didn’t begin in the 90s. Try two decades earlier at a minimum.