Post by shmeep on Jan 11, 2006 9:43:30 GMT -5
Okay, I am now officially looking forward to this show! My brother is a single guy in his late thirties in the music industry (and he's strangely obsessed with monkeys) so this show already interested me--and I love Tom Cavanagh--but reading Matt Roush's review of the series makes me want to see it even more. I don't always agree with him, but he did like Blind Justice and he dislikes many of the shows I hate so...here's hoping for a GREAT show to watch on Tuesday nights at 10! That time slot may not seem so depressing now. Here's what Roush said:
Music to My Ears
Monkey business hits all the right notes
Tom Cavanagh, Love Monkey
No one dies in the pilot episode of the mid-season charmer Love Monkey (premieres Tuesday, Jan. 17 at 10 pm/ET), and that has me worried. Can CBS and its audience embrace an hourlong show that dares to exist outside the world of the crime-drama procedural? (Didn't work so well for the sci-fi Threshold.)
But maybe Love Monkey will turn out to be CBS' next Northern Exposure. Granted, the music scene in New York City is a far cry from Cicely, Alaska, but this amiable comedy-drama shares the attributes of quirky humor, great banter from cool characters and a passion for living life on one's own terms. It's sexy, funny, hip and heartfelt.
The funky title, adapted from Kyle Smith's novel, refers to Peter Pan-ish hero Tom Farrell (Ed's still-lovable Tom Cavanagh). Tom's an idealist in the cutthroat world of music deal-making, "a good guy with a fantastic ear" on a streak of discovering new talent, which doesn't keep him from getting fired. Matters are even messier in the dating arena, and his best friend, Bran (Judy Greer), warns him he'll "end up one lonely monkey" if he doesn't stop the reckless swinging.
Tom also hangs with three buds — two single, and one (Jason Priestley) who's married to Tom's pregnant sister — and before you start thinking "male Sex and the City," this show has its own grungier identity and smart voice.
Now if only CBS would put CSI in the title, I could stop fretting over my new pet Monkey.
Music to My Ears
Monkey business hits all the right notes
Tom Cavanagh, Love Monkey
No one dies in the pilot episode of the mid-season charmer Love Monkey (premieres Tuesday, Jan. 17 at 10 pm/ET), and that has me worried. Can CBS and its audience embrace an hourlong show that dares to exist outside the world of the crime-drama procedural? (Didn't work so well for the sci-fi Threshold.)
But maybe Love Monkey will turn out to be CBS' next Northern Exposure. Granted, the music scene in New York City is a far cry from Cicely, Alaska, but this amiable comedy-drama shares the attributes of quirky humor, great banter from cool characters and a passion for living life on one's own terms. It's sexy, funny, hip and heartfelt.
The funky title, adapted from Kyle Smith's novel, refers to Peter Pan-ish hero Tom Farrell (Ed's still-lovable Tom Cavanagh). Tom's an idealist in the cutthroat world of music deal-making, "a good guy with a fantastic ear" on a streak of discovering new talent, which doesn't keep him from getting fired. Matters are even messier in the dating arena, and his best friend, Bran (Judy Greer), warns him he'll "end up one lonely monkey" if he doesn't stop the reckless swinging.
Tom also hangs with three buds — two single, and one (Jason Priestley) who's married to Tom's pregnant sister — and before you start thinking "male Sex and the City," this show has its own grungier identity and smart voice.
Now if only CBS would put CSI in the title, I could stop fretting over my new pet Monkey.
