mcravener

A first review of this Australian series, which I feel deserves some attention after seeing the first episode: "Laid" is situated in an environment something like The Office, but with more of a protagonist focus. The series is about Roo, a 29 year old single girl who works at a product marketing firm, desperately searching for Mr Right and the situations she finds herself in by doing so.

Roo is an offbeat kind of person, never quite fitting in at work, never quite sure if what she says is totally off the wall or if it is the current acceptable way of thinking.

The humor is very on the mark and quite racy compared to the more normative and streamlined US TV series, and the main character Roo (Alison Bell) comes off as both real and also very funny.

So hoping that the series keeps its format...

8/10

I guess you can call "How Do You Know" a rom-com, though the perspective is a bit wider than a standard boy-meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl story (or the reverse).

The film provides a warm and humorous take on all the random things that affect life from one moment to the next and how we attempt to handle them. The protagonists are both subjected to sudden hardships; the softball player Lisa has just been cut from the team and fired CEO George is facing indictment. Both are trying to redefine their lives and climb out of the hole they have just found themselves in.

This film is not the kind that constantly has you on the edge of your seat, but it does connect with you both seamlessly and without effort due to Brooks' solid script and the on the mark acting.

Kudos to Jack Nicholson as George's moral midget (sic) father and Owen Wilson as the playboy who wants a relationship without necessarily sacrificing anything.

So if you want a film that rings true and has you smiling an inward smile of recognition throughout I think you will really enjoy this.

8 out of 10