“Wedding Bells” is the new show from from David Kelley, the man who brought you “Ally McBeal”, “The Practice” and “Boston Legal” among other things.
Anyway. . .funny show. A zillion times funnier than that piece of shit they put on after the SImpson’s Sunday night.
It centers around a family, the Bells, who own a wedding planning company. Last night, they had a great cameo from Delta Burke. I paraphrase, “Hi. . .I’m the mother of the bride, and I’m an acquired taste. Now, here’s 500 dollars. You do what you have to do to get the minister to say Jesus Christ at least twice during the ceremony. My daughter is marrying a Jew and I don’t have a problem with that, but Jesus is going to be at her wedding. I don’t care if he stubs his toe and says Jesus Christ, but I want him there.”
The production of the show was on a movie-scale. One of the stars is “Martha Focker”. There were about 8 “main” characters, all pretty well established, well acted. They all interacted well with each other.
Anyway, they’re re-airing on Friday at 9:00 which will be its regular time.
I liked it well enough but not enough to remain with it for the whole episode. It confused me why a wedding coordinator company would have a board of directors, though.
I assume they are some sort of corporation. Not all that strange. I did find it odd that they only did one wedding a week; a place like that would have multiple ballrooms and multiple ceremonies every weekend.
It was pretty funny. I haven’t been watching Kelley’s shows since Picket Fences went off the air, but I do think he’s one of TV’s best writers. I’m willing to give it more time.
I wonder if the Barbie twins weddings will be the next episode. It would be great if they would use a continuity like that and show someone as a recurring character from start to finish.
The title seems a little precious to me. It’s like they grew up saying, “Hey, let’s be sure to choose a career that will enable us to make use of our last name in creative wordplay! And since copper smelting isn’t a very ladylike calling, we should plan weddings!”
All in all, we thought it was a very good pilot episode. It had some really funny moments. The running theme of the two blonds crashing everything was hillarious. They were like cock roaches. You just couldn’t get rid of them. And then when they blurted out that they were afraid of black people, we had to pause the broadcast until we could stop laughing. I think it’s a promising show.
I think Friday night mid-season was a bad choice. It seems to me that some networks decide even before a show’s begun airtime that they won’t bother supporting it. *ER *was advertised to the nth degree while Chicago Hope didn’t get much advertising. I’ve seen so many ads for CSI: Miami I want to throw things at my TV when yet another comes on (so sick of David Caruso). I don’t remember seeing ad 1 for Wedding Bells. It almost seems sometimes they develop a show to keep someone happy but then actively try to trash it by burying it in a wierd time slot or moving it around so that it never has a chance. I have no idea why.