Apartment 23

ABC is pimping this as a hilarious all female contemporary version of The Odd Couple. STRIKE ONE. Not that I don’t like The Odd Couple but when you have to use a former show to promote a newer show – those things don’t usually work out. The storyline follows June (Dreama Walker​) from the Midwest to New York, which is actually a staple storyline that isn’t burnt out. BALL ONE. After a shitty, shitty time she finds a roommate in Chloe (Krysten Ritter​) whose BFF happens to be James Van Der Beek. BALL TWO.I don’t know why, but Van Der Beek has climbed the ladder of ridiculous former celebrities who probably shouldn’t have a career anymore, but make money just popping up as themselves. At first, Chloe is a huge bitch and her and June have it out. Chloe steals all of June’s money, June sells all of Chloe’s furniture, Chloe has sex with June’s fiancée on June’s birthday cake – you know, the usual. BALL THREE. Eventually Chloe accepts June into her inner circle and they two take on New York. This really could go either way. I can see this going on for a few years or tanking after four episodes. It’s easy to write a couple of funny episodes, but where do you go when you have to write the meat and potatoes of the series? Ritter has an odd charisma that makes me want to do bad things to her, so I’m going to let this one fly. There’s more good here than bad. BALL FOUR! BATTER, TAKE YOUR BASE!

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