TV Tuesday – 2 Broke Girls & The Playboy Club

Posted on by Courtney
{I know, the Emmys were two whole days ago & I still haven’t posted a recap post. It’s coming, I promise!}
In the meantime – there have been some amazing new shows premiering in the last couple weeks across all networks & I’m super excited about some of them! I’ve decided to do a quick little recap about some of the shows, and grade them (standard A+ to F scale). 
The below two are my current favorites, however there are quite a few new shows coming on this season and I am going to try to watch as many as possible to give them an initial grade. Stay tuned, because there are a few more I know for sure I will be posting about in the next couple days, including some that aired last week.

Two Broke Girls, CBS – Mondays at 9:30pm ET
Written by Whitney Cummings (who is starring in her new show Whitney Thursdsays on NBC), this show was a bit slow out of the blocks – but picked up quickly. Wealthy (and Wharton educated – so smart!) Caroline Channing’s (Beth Behrs) family loses everything after her father is convicted of orchestrating a Ponzi scheme. She finds work in Brooklyn at a diner (by Googling “places people from the Upper East Side would never, ever, ever go”) and meets Max Black (Kat Dennings), a super sarcastic waitress working two jobs to make ends meet. 
Max eventually invites Caroline to live with her and, what I can only hope will be, hilarity ensues. There were a couple “laugh out loud” moments during the pilot episode, which is a good sign. A lot of time was spent filling the audience in on the characters’ back story, but it was done quickly and painlessly.
Grade: B+
The Playboy Club, NBC – Mondays at 10pm ET

Well first of all – Eddie Cibrian, yay! {Note: Even though he’s super hot, cheating is still not okay.} Ok, now that that’s out of the way… this show is not at all what I expected, in a good way. I had been anticipating a show set in the 1960’s with lots of gratuitous sex and nudity. In reality, the show has a bit of a murder-mystery feel to it (kind of), has a mafia story line, and appears to be ready to incorporate social issues of the time period (including one of the cast members seeking to  become the first African American centerfold, and the founding of an underground pro-homosexual social movement group) into the plot.

I am also loving Bunny Maureen, played by actress Amber Heard. They’ve already laid the ground work for her character to do a lot of growing, and I’m super excited to see which direction they take her in.

Grade: A-

Alrighty. Come back later for a recap of new NBC comedies Up All Night & Free Agents.