Patience with me this week, as I try to get to as many premieres as I can handle, which means watching 2nd episodes may fall off (for example, I didn’t even attempt to get into The Mob Doctor or Revolution last night), but I’ll catch up. Probably.
The biggest premiere week (CBS, a lot of ABC, a lot of FOX) first serves up:
Partners (CBS, Monday 8:30/7:30c)
What: Two best friends work together as architects. One is gay. One is straight. They both have significant others. Therefore, there are four people, but three couples! (Just in case the tagline on all the advertisements didn’t remind you of this, don’t worry, they say it in the pilot at the end, right when you’re getting to that “here’s the message of what we just went through” moment in the show.)
Just in case that didn’t get through, here’s that scene:
Watch? If you like your multi-camera sitcoms, uh, decidedly retro. Even ignoring the jokes about how there was a show in the 90s called Partners, the conflict in the pilot draws from the old “he was going to break up with her but then decided not to but his friend didn’t get the memo so he spilled the beans and now they have to clean it up” premise, which, by my count, has been successfully done 3,181 times before.
Ratings, meanwhile, weren’t that great for this show, so I wonder how long CBS will keep it in the rotation if it doesn’t hold enough of an audience. (For you ratings junkies out there, it looks like The Mob Doctor is not long for this world, but Revolution will probably stick around for at least the season.)