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WORKING THE ENGELS
July 10, 2014  | By David Bianculli

NBC, 9:30 p.m. ET

 

SERIES PREMIERE: I’ve been a major fan of Andrea Martin ever since her earliest SCTV days (“Can you drah-ha me to la loto?”), and was amazed by her onstage energy in Pippin. But here, as the matriarch of a goofy clan that finds itself suddenly without a patriarch, even her comic timing can’t make this sitcom as entertaining as it needs to be. It wants to be Arrested Development, but doesn’t come close to gelling, or of making its comic anarchy pay off. Try it for yourself, if you like, but this is more warning than recommendation.

 
 
 
 
 
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