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The New Normal - NBC
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Watched the pilot last night, rather liked it. loved the nan character..
also watched The Neighbors (abc) - not as good
anyone else seen em?
also watched The Neighbors (abc) - not as good
anyone else seen em?
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Yes there is a US Pace thread already.
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1732562&highlight=the+new+normal
So who is watching this on E4 I really am liking it, however I wasn't expecting to but the fact that its a Ryan Murphy show I decided to give it a chance.
The Nana character is quite funny also the actors playing the gay couple have good chemistry together. Episode 3 and 4 so far have been the best
Yes that episode was a mis-step Nanagasm I believe it was called:yawn:
Ratings don't look good in the States for the show but seeing as its inevitable that NBC will be cancelling a shedload of other shows this one might be given a second chance.
Think the show is improving each episode. Hopeful for a second season!!!
Not too confident there will be a second season it does seem to be skating along in terms of ratings in America but I wouldn't be surprised if it's cancelled.
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/02/19/nbc-smash-is-likely-to-be-canceled/169658/
but there might be hope if NBC decides to cancel sitcoms such as Guy's with Kids, 1600 Penn plus the much awaited news of limbo show Up all Night, The New Normal might just have a chance at a second season (well I hope anyway)
p.s. please can the mods change the thread title to E4 speed as this is a duplicate US speed thread and I thought it'd be better to continue with this than creating a completely new thread for the UK speed. It might put UK watchers off by seeing NBC instead of E4. Thanks:)
It's a shame because I think the show is hilarious.
We seem to have jumped backwards 3 months, after seeing both Thanksgiving and Christmas episodes. Not to mention the "return" of Nanna when she's been living in SoCal with the rest of them.
Also, I don't like the really mincey gay character. He annoys me so much. He's so fem that they just should have made it a straight couple who couldn't have kids and wanting a surrogate!
The whole point of the show is that its a gay couple, it is the new normal. To have a straight couple makes the show rather bland. Having a gay couple adds a difference to the show.
I agree with the Nan character though, I feel she should have stayed as the homophobic character.
The Halloween episode was cancelled in the US and was shown later.
Oh well guess it doesn't matter much seeings as the Peacock canned it today. Which to be honest isn't that much of a surprise, it did seem like it was being stretched out. Here's hoping they wrap it all up neatly in the finale.
It also did that terrible thing beloved of US sitcoms whereby nearly every episode ends with a homily or "lesson learned", often in the excruciatingly twee form of a closing monologue, which I'm afraid set my teath on edge on more than one occasion.
Plus I felt the whole (B)Ryan as a producer of a 'Glee-a-like' was a clunky and shameless vanity puff by the show's creator who ought to be experienced enough by now that he could go beyond "write what you know" and set his character in another, less autobiographical milieu. A bit lazy that, IMO!
On the whole it was serviceable but unsurprising as a sitcom and I feel that whatever it set out to do it failed to do with any particular panache, sophistication or magic and that, as much as any resistance to the concept from fundamentalist christians, right-wingers or redneck bigots, is probably why audiences didn't flock to it in droves.
Final Score: Distinctly Average.
Overall 4/10 - Will not be missed.
The concept could have worked better, perhaps not making them as affluent, and perhaps not so 'LA' for starters.
Now that sounds like a good show. You could still have the waitress wanting to be a lawyer but then discovering she can design clothes.
Was amusing to see Riley from National Treasure all grown up.