rattyoldconverse
I absolutely adore My Boys. As a shopaholic girly girl teenager, this seriously means something. The jokes are witty, sly, and very cheeky. Its not Seinfeld; there's no laugh-track (thank god!) and there's real intellect in the script. The characters are not only hilarious, but easy to relate to.I love dresses and shoes and Gossip Girl, but i love My Boys more. It makes me wish I had a group of guy friends which I could talk about baseball with (a secret passion) and make funny jokes or watch them have a mustache growing contest. This show is seriously for everyone! There's just...MORE to My Boys than everyone hooking up, like on most shows. Its no The Office, but as far as TBS goes, its up there.
supervolt2surge
Recently during a homebound injury day and a vomiting amount of NOTHING to watch on TV, I came across the First season of My Boys on TBS' On Demand section, and the boring day was flushed away.I'm bummed I never tuned in before on a weekly basis, because this show is EXCELLENT! I probably never watched originally because the Title has that girl-show sound to it. But as a guy, I was won over. It's got it's own unique sense of humor that I found genuinely intelligent (few bits of corny too) and there are scenes that create an enjoyable laugh.Personally, I'm so sick of the many copycat shows that exist purely on the lowest common denominator of gutter comedy. The language of this show is real, it's adult, it's comfortable, and it is funny. My Boys also has a nice fluidity from episode to episode. There's an underlying flow, not just what crazy mishap'll take place this week. And at the end of some, there's a positive ending. That part I really like.Lastly, the ensemble cast is a great mix of characters and personalities. It's not a bunch of stereotypes inflated by a funhouse mirror, but a likable group of friends who enjoy Baseball, Poker, and each other. They have a real chemistry as a group.My Boys is different from what else is on TV. Guys and gals will love the show. And I'm really really really glad that a show has been made that doesn't make me feel like I need a shower after I watch it.I enjoy. You will too.The show was an entertaining Surprise, and a good one at that. Well worth tuning in for Season 2 on a weekly basis.
jcstlouismo
There should be no wonder that the majority of the comments approving of this monstrosity are female. This show is a female's dream: to be cute, single, no kids and to have 4-5 decent looking successful, charismatic guys just hover around her, make her the center of attention, but none ever hit on her. EVER. OH-but they're totally hetero. Sure, that's realistic. When in the history of Earth has that EVER taken place? Not to mention introducing alcohol? But she never gets fired at by any of her "boys". It's all totally platonic, they don't introduce any other females that would threaten all this attention she gets, but she just maneuvers in this bastion of testosterone and there are no awkward moments, no lude comments, nothing. Puh-leeze. This is an abomination to all sitcoms and television as a whole. This show couldn't be further from reality if they had the "boys" become bionic cyborgs with the powers on invisibility that can bend space time and had flesh eating incest's that fly out of their mouths, in fact that would be more entertaining because you wouldn't need such a huge suspension of disbelief. This show sucks to holy hell. Once again, this is a woman's fantasy played out on TBS, it's so jacked up and far from the truth, that's the only comical value. It would be fine if they weren't trying to pass this off as 'realistic'. Make a mockery out of male/female relationships like When Harry Met Sally, but don't give me this fantasy-land and insult my intelligence.
tree1957
My impression of the first show was that they were working too hard to bring viewers into an established group of friends, to put the group across and show the rapports between characters. It didn't seem to be representative of the interactions between a real group of friends, or perhaps if representative, representative in hyperbole. I could watch the show without too much pain, but would definitely prefer to avoid it. OTOH, Sex in the City was a favorite, and I found the relationships between the women to be generally believable, even though their relationships with men didn't always play, for me, often. For instance, Charlotte not having sex during the entire first month of marriage, and this other hairy man that she liked but she expected him to remove his hair for social/aesthetic reasons, both of those plot lines were ridiculous, but maybe they were meant to be. If the intent was to be an overt satire about the absurdity of relationships, those two cases would be fits and served their purpose.Getting back to the relationships between the My Boys characters, they aren't a fit for me. Somehow, they have tried too hard.
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