I always liked King of Queens, it wasn’t anything that special but it was a nice show with a few laughs. Kevin James and Leah Remini were a good TV couple, she mostly kept him in line while being a bit off herself at times.
So now Kevin James has a new series, Kevin Can Wait. I happened to catch part of a few episodes from the first season. Apparently Kevin is a retired cop who works security, and is married with at least one daughter. His wife was nice enough but sort of in the background, the show was mostly about Kevin.
Leah Remini was introduced sometime during the first season as a former partner of his, I think she is still a cop. Ok, kinda neat that she’s back, whatever.
Now last night I caught the first episode of the second season, Kevin’s wife is nowhere to be seen. He receives a letter with her name on it and sadly remarks that it has been a year since she died. But he wants to save the letter because there is a coupon on it, and that was the only mention of the wife.
Meanwhile, Leah Remini is back helping Kevin’s daugher’s boyfriend not get deported and stepping in to help his daughter get ready for a wedding.
I think we all see where this is going, but I can’t imagine what the actress that played Kevin’s wife must think of all this.
Yeah last season when Leah showed up I sort of suspected things could get tricky. But nope, they just killed the wife off. Not even sure if they will explain what happened.
While not big news (since the show doesn’t have much heat) it was certainly news when the story broke at the end of last season. The actress that played his wife announced it on twitter and wasn’t too happy about it. I’ve only caught an episode or two and I immediately recognized she was miscast. I don’t know if that means only Leah Remini can play opposite of him but they certainly did work as a believable couple on King.
We made it to the first commercial break of the first episode, then deleted it and deleted the recording info because it was so bad. And then set our tv on fire, because it was contaminated then.
The supporting cast on King of Queens was also good, especially Jerry Stiller but also Patton Oswalt and whoever played Deacon. Maybe all of them will be back!