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- CBS
- Sep 20, 2010
- CBS
- Sep 20, 2010
Summary A couple finds love at an Overeaters Anonymous meeting in this multicamera comedy from Chuck Lorre, the force behind Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory. The project is development at CBS.
Created By: Mark Roberts
- CBS
- Sep 20, 2010
- CBS
- Sep 20, 2010
Summary A couple finds love at an Overeaters Anonymous meeting in this multicamera comedy from Chuck Lorre, the force behind Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory. The project is development at CBS.
Created By: Mark Roberts
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 23 Critic Reviews
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52% Positive
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43% Mixed
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4% Negative
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1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 23 Critic Reviews
62
52% Positive
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
43% Mixed
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
4% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Melissa McCarthy and Billy Gardell star in a sweet, old-fashioned sitcom. [Sep 27 2010, p.55]
Gardell and McCarthy are two of the more realistic-feeling, instantly appealing sitcom personalities in ages. They're enough to make it worth drudging through the sludge tonight's pilot considers comedy writing.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 95 User Ratings
6.3
59% Positive
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22% Mixed
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19% Negative
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18 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 95 User Ratings
6.3
59% Positive
56 Ratings
56 Ratings
22% Mixed
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
19% Negative
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
I have only seen two episodes and I am DRAWN to this magnetic show. Melissa McCarthy's talent is highlighted beautifully and luckily accompanied by a costar and cast that ISN'T in her shadow, like most sitcoms tend to do by pulling all attention to 1 "star", but also great, genuine characters. The two title characters are adorable! They are believable as they acknowledge they have weight issues and have fun of it. I discovered this show when it appeared after another of my favorite shows "How I Met Your Mother" which is also fabulous and has similar comedic writing, and though I at first saw it as yet another sitcom, I couldn't stop watching.
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SEASON 1
There's enough comedy content in this first seating to warrant keeping Mike & Molly on the TiVo menu, even if it's not quite love at first bite.
Underneath the crude humor, there's a sweetness and an honesty to the show. The duo's struggle with weight is believable.
The potential for cringeworthiness is high, and the pilot sometimes falls on the wrong side of the line between self-deprecatingly comic and just plain mean. But there's a real sweetness to the tentative romance brewing between Mike, the beat cop played by comic Billy Gardell, and Molly, an elementary school teacher (Melissa McCarthy).
The show seems sympathetic to them as far as it goes, but the fat humor is just predictable and lame.
There are a lot of fat jokes in Mike & Molly. Unfortunately, all of them are easy, most of them are stupid and worse than anything is that they are spewed in what is being spun as a sympathetic look at people with eating problems.
A funny, funny show. What a great cast, with individuals that play off the talents of each other so well. I avoided this show all season, but I'm glad that I gave it a chance. Now I'm enjoying "new" episodes of this hilarious comedy all summer long. Another success from the Chuck Lorre stable.
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SEASON 1
Police office Mike and teacher Molly meet at an over-eaters anonymous group and fall in love thanks, in part at least, to their mutual love of pie.
In all honesty Mike & Molly is a pretty generic network sit-com, complete with intrusive laugh track. Much like everything Chuck Lorre is involved with (Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory) it also relies largely on one joke, in this case its that Mike and Molly are overweight. The only thing that does save it from being a complete write off are the two stars who, not only have good comic timing, but also bring a warmth to their characters as well.
I can't say I'll bother watching any more of this show but if they can move away from all the fat jokes and focus on the central relationship between the two stars maybe, just maybe, Mike and Molly could actually be pretty decent.
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SEASON 1
Melissa McCarthy and Billy Gardell both have some appeal as actors and deserve a decent vehicle for their talents. This isn't it. There are some really endearing moments between the two of them, and their romance sometimes transcends the sloppy material, but the writing is for the most part abysmal, saturated with overbaked fat jokes and typical sitcom clichés. In an attempt to be edgy and distinguish themselves from the vast body of **** 'family sitcoms,' 'Mike and Molly' also stoops to new lows of unfunny smuttiness, with constant references to people's "Johnsons," "weiners," "sausages," and "junk," not to mention the requisite b**bs, a*ses, b*lls, diarrhea, farts, erectile dyfunction and countless euphemisms for sex (such as "a trip to the boneyard"). While Mike and Molly between them draw some genuine sweetness from a wasteland of material, Swoosie Kurtz is meant for better things. She never says anything that isn't a lame joke, which she delivers in a brassy monotone while gazing innocently into middle distance. This is not dry, sophisticated comedy. It's Lucille Ball Lite. I don't understand why Katy Mixon (as Molly's sister 'Victoria') squeezes her lines out in a contrived baby voice with a faux-Southern twang, and why she hams it up to the point of idiocy. Few of the actors in this laboured show understand the comic power of subtlety. Despite this, it will probably be on the air indefinitely. A lot of people seem to like 'Mike and Molly," presumably the same audience that keeps 'Two and a Half Men' on the air.
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SEASON 1
Based on my admiration for Melissa McCarthy I decided to check out the first season, and no. Couldn't make it through a single episode. there may be better ones than the one I started but just no. There's no way I'm using my time for that. In my estimation it's just background noise for people who never turn the television off (typical of the genre). Enjoyed McCarthy in Bridesmaids and the most recent SNL. Hopefully they'll revamp the show to feature her doing something that allows her to work closer to level ten than at the muted level two she's coasting at. 3/10
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