'THEN CAME YOU,' BUT WE HARDLY NOTICED OLDER WOMAN, YOUNGER MAN, STALE IDEA.Byline: David Kronke TV Critic ``Then Came You'' boasts a premise so thin it makes Calista Flockhart Calista Kay Flockhart (born on November 11, 1964) is an Emmy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning American actress, primarily on soap operas and television. She is perhaps best known for playing the title character of Ally McBeal (1997 - 2002). look chunky. It concerns a young (33-year-old) career woman (Susan Floyd Susan Floyd (May 13, 1968) is an American actress who has appeared in multiple episodes of Law & Order, as well as numerous other television series. She has also had featured roles in several motion pictures, including Domestic Disturbance and Forgiven ) who gets divorced, checks into a hotel and begins a fling with a guy (Thomas Newton Dr. Thomas Newton (1704 - 1782) was an English cleric, biblical scholar and author. He served as the Bishop of Bristol from 1761 to 1782. Newton was born in Lichfield, Staffordshire and educated at Cambridge where he became a fellow of Trinity College. ) fresh out of college. The fling lasts, and lasts, and lasts ... . All the zany turmoil that can result from such an alliance - they have different income levels and don't get each other's pop-culture references - is dealt with in tonight's episode. Future episodes grasp desperately at plot lines so stock they haven't been seriously used since the `60s or so, and play out so synthetically and formulaically they seem to come from another planet. To wit: The moony moon·y adj. moon·i·er, moon·i·est 1. Of or suggestive of the moon or moonlight. 2. Moonlit. 3. Dreamy in mood or nature; absent-minded. twosome fret over what gifts to get one another; a date to her friend's wedding is imperiled because he's recruited to work at it - and can't find one human being on the entire planet to switch shifts with so he won't embarrass her. Please. Otherwise, there's nothing going on here. Physically, the age difference - that is the whole point of the series - is a moot point moot point n. 1) a legal question which no court has decided, so it is still debatable or unsettled. 2) an issue only of academic interest. (See: moot) : Floyd doesn't look appreciably older than Newton, let alone significantly older. (On the other hand, there's a lot of effort to surround her with friends and colleagues that wring her of her youthfulness, trying to make her artificially seem at least 40 mentally and spiritually.) And the comedy is virtually non-existent, too. This was originally intended to premiere back in September, but was pulled back at the last second; nonetheless, it's utterly emblematic of everything that people have complained is wrong with sitcoms this season. Creator Betsy Thomas based this series on her own life. Thomas married her younger man. The fate of that relationship will be happier than that of ``Then Came You.'' THE FACTS --The show: ``Then Came You.'' --What: Sitcom about a young woman dating a younger man. --The stars: Susan Floyd, Thomas Newton. --Where: ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. (Channel 7). --When: 8:30 p.m. Wednesdays. --Our rating: One and one half stars. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: ABC's Wednesday night comedy ``Then Came You,'' starring Desmond Askew a·skew adv. & adj. To one side; awry: rugs lying askew. [Probably a-2 + skew. , left, Thomas Newton, Susan Floyd, Miriam Shor and Colin Ferguson, examines a mismatched relationship. |
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