"Unhitched" (2008) TV series

User Rating:

5.0/10   

Creators:

Mike Bernier
Chris Pappas

Seasons:

1

Release Date:

2008 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

A comedy for the dumb at heart.

Plot:

A 35-year old guy who got married right out of college finds himself newly divorced and ill-prepared to re-enter the dating scene.

Plot Keywords:

One Word Title

Cast

Craig Bierko	...	Jack 'Gator' Gately (6 episodes, 2008)
Rashida Jones	...	Kate (6 episodes, 2008)
Shaun Majumder	...	Freddy (6 episodes, 2008)
Johnny Sneed	...	Tommy (6 episodes, 2008)

Also Known As:

The Rules for Starting Over (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

30 min (including commercials)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Company:

20th Century Fox Television

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Easy to Assemble: Personal Shopper (#1.6)" (2008)

Soundtrack:

Hey!

Yes! True Comedy GOLD. This Show Caused Me to Almost Suffocate With Laughter!

It's not just the hilarious writing and bombastic imagination of the plot direction in each episode.

The cast has fantastic comedic chemistry. Bierko, Sneed, Jones and Shaun Majumder all know what they are doing and understand the jokes before they portray them. Too many comedy shows give you the feeling that the actors themselves don't really get the humor they're trying to portray. These characters are absolutely hilarious:

Bierko's smooth and suave lead, the successful financial analyst continually foiled by the bumbling of the other three divorcées.

Jone's rational and callous divorce attorney who is blinded by her feminine perspective on life and can't see why people don't see her as a warm person.

Majumder, the Indian immigrant physician who finds every difficult task easy except the most mundane, ubiquitous ordeals of American life, forcing him to depend on others who are intellectually so very far beneath him to guide his way through American culture.

Sneed, the adult ADHD afflicted, sex addicted, social numbskull, the only one who has been divorced three times, who parasitizes the other three characters yet serves as the cultural anchor that brings the three overachievers down to everyone else's level with his cockeyed behavior.

This show had me nearly rolling on the floor. You really have to be a stuffed shirt not to get the continuous humor in this TV show. I could really appreciate this show continuing for several years. There is no phoniness in this show at all. It doesn't pretend to be something it's not. It is just supposed to be funny, there is nothing serious at all about this TV show and that is one of the things that is so refreshing about the show.

I can't wait for more episodes. Six episodes are available online as of April 9, 2008:

http://www.fox.com/fod/player.htm?show=unhitched

I hope that others will enjoy this even half as much as I have.