SnoopyStyle Failed baseball player Vince Cook (Anders Holm) runs his late father's gym Brooklyn Champions. He's planning to secretly sell it and move to Florida without telling his younger brother Matthew (Andy Favreau) who works there. Out of nowhere, Vince's ex Priya Patel (Mindy Kaling) shows up to introduce their 15 year old son Michael (J. J. Totah) whom he has never met. Michael is flamboyantly gay and set to start at a performing arts school in New York. He's leaving Cleveland and needs a place to stay while attending the school. Ruby McClure (Fortune Feimster), Britney Sundaram, Shabaz, and Uncle Bud are trainers at the gym. Dana (Ginger Gonzaga) is its bookkeeper.Mindy Kaling creates another show. This is basically a different workplace sitcom with an add gay teen story. The kid can be annoying at first but he does grow on me. His biggest difficulty is that he has no place at the gym and he is missing from half the show. Same can be said about the other people at the gym who cannot exist at the school. So the show is split in its construction. For Michael, I like episode five the most. He has actual connection with other students and there is a good story about his culture. The big problem is that Vince's whiteness has nothing to do with Michael's Indian cluelessness. It takes away from the joke that it's the fault of Vince's white camping. That story line would work fine if Michael had been adopted by white folks but he grew up with single mom Priya. It doesn't actually function for this show.Other problems include the lackluster brother, a less than hunky ex-jock lead, and cock blocking the female romantic potential. This show could work either as a workplace sitcom at the gym or as a teen comedy with a gay kid. I don't think it works as both. The brother is supposed to be a meathead but he can't be a blank. Anders Holm is good as a side character or part of an ensemble. I'm not sold on him as a lead. The workplace stuff slowly improves towards The Mindy Project level and that's good. The show got a little better but it's cancel after burning off its ten episode run. The premise is wrong and it never had a chance.

GenreHopper To all the other reviews calling this show out for being over the top and that it's acting is ridiculous... I think people don't see that that's part of its charm! The stupid jokes and overacting ARE the show!! Yes it's silly and dumb, but I enjoy these kinds of shows once in a while just to laugh.

markaaron-97974 After a wobbly start, this series is beginning to find its footing and actually be funny, while at the same time finding some heart.It's done this by letting Michael actually be a kid, albeit a precocious one, and letting Vince actually exhibit some character growth. And by letting Matthew be Matthew. The humor relies less on glib one-liners and more on the situations they find themselves in. But it sure took the writers/producers a while to figure this out and I fear they may have lost the audience.

astalmeiel It took a while for this show to find its footing, but once it has (by ep. 5), it's REALLY GOOD. It's one of the wittiest, smartly-written comedies around.I don't understand how anyone can be annoyed with JJ Totah. What he's representing in this show means so much to a lot of people and he does so with infectious charm and energy.I'm interested to find out the other characters' stories so I hope they get more than one season. Give it a shot, people.