Broke

Why did someone believe Pauley Perrette could be the lead in a comedy? She might have generated a chuckle on NCIS, but never did her performance indicate the had the timing of a comedy actor. The premise of the show is somewhat standard by today's standards: single mom with son has a family member return hope, in this case a sister, and hijinks result as the Jeffersons have to move in with the Bunkers. Actually, that would be funnier. Here it's just a rich sister whose husband, born with a silver spoon in his mouth, has to accept he has lost the family fortune and now is living with a hardworking middle class sister-in-law; Has to be funny, right? Nope. No chemistry among cast members and plot just falls flat.I will be surprised if they run episode two, but with many viewers who love such dross, you never know.

Broken and unable to fix this comedy series, that is what Broke is. When will the writers strike ever end? It must be at least five (5) years since the writers strike first began because this type of cheap comedy just seems to keep popping up with same cheap and stale comedy shows each season. This so called comedy series is about a rich (now broke) sister and her husband who are desperate to move in with her working class sister and son because they have no other place to live. The working class sister holds down two jobs one of which she works at a tavern.

I can see where this is going and that's nowhere fast except to the proverbial "CANCELLED" series before it gets through ten (if their lucky enough) or so episodes. If I was starring in this series I would literally beg the producers to stop using that god awful canned laughter box and wait and see if the actors lines being delivered invoke any real laughs.

Broke and busted a 2 out of 10

Yet another "family moves in because they're "broke". Yet another overused laugh track.

First of all, Perrette had badly aged out of her totally silly role on NCIS and at the age of 51, she is already aged out of this role. The show itself has been on for decades in one incarnation after another with very little variation. Tired and old.

I watched all of 5 minutes before turning it off! Painful does not start to describe how bad those minutes were! Make you think that just about anyone can become a screen writer these days!