UPN’s Gary & Mike
In the Tom-Sawyer, I’ll-let-you-whitewash-my-fence-if-you-pay-me-a-dollar spirit of modern business, here’s another post lifted straight from an idea in the Comments, where filmex identifies him/herself as a fan of short-lived series Significant Others, The Lyon’s Den, That Was Then and Related. I watch TV for a living, and I had to look up what Related was. Turns out I reviewed it.
But I’ve been there. One thing you learn as a TV critic is that every show out there, no matter how low-rated or overlooked, is someone’s favorite. Have you ever loved a show that it seemed like no one else did? I’m not talking about notorious critics’ darlings like My So-Called Life or Freaks and Geeks here, but series that never managed to get the big ratings love or critical buzz.
I’ll start you off: UPN’s Gary and Mike was robbed. And going back to grade school: how could you not make a hit from a sitcom about Paul Shaffer selling his soul to the devil?