My New Favorite Show - Happy Endings

A couple of weeks ago a new show premiered on ABC on Wednesday nights as a mid-season-replacement. Happy Endings, in it's pilot alone, impressed me. Usually pilot episodes suck. I never judge a show based on it's Pilot. It's written and produced long before it airs and in the time it takes to sell the show to a network and produce a package of five more episodes, the writers have polished the direction of the characters and story much more than they did when the Pilot was produced. As I said, this pilot was impressive. In the following 4 episodes this show has clearly solidified itself as one of televisions most refreshing half hours since, well, Modern Family, last year. In fact, Happy Endings is like the love child of Modern Family and The Class (a show you probably never watched but would have loved if you had.) What's great about Happy Endings is that it's an over the top yet realistic representation of a group of friends who's median age is 30. In the Pilot's first scene two of the friends are at the Altar, about to wed, when a man roller-blades into the Church and objects to their Union. Seconds later, the woman swiftly uses her cold feet to flee with the Roller-blader just behind - celebrating his unexpected "victory." Cut to TGIFridays-esque bar where Penny, played by Casey Wilson, who did a stint on SNL several years ago (you may remember her "Twitter Breaks" on the "Cougar Den") says, "Rollerblades?." Cut to Max (played by Adam Pally)- the most non-stereotypical gay character ever written - shaking is head, "Even I think roller-blades are gay, and I had sex with a dude last night." The fear this tight group of friends has is that their relationships group will crumble if their friends Dave and Alex don't get married. Does this mean their not allowed to invite both of them to breakfast anymore? One of them jokes that they haven't met anyone new in 11 years. Of course I'm not ruining anything to say that the pilot ends on a positive note. Happy Endings, I dig it, and you will too. Check out some of my favorite clips below.







The following clip requires a Late Night Talk Show set up. Max and Dave have discovered that the food thief, who has been raiding their fridge, has been living in the crawl space above their apartment.





Follow the link below for a great scene from the first episode. It's six minutes long so it's worth the Hulu advertisement - while you're watching the Hulu commercial please remember that it's worth it because the quality far surpasses that of youtube. Penny's 26th Birthday

Watch this show please because I'm tired of great shows getting cancelled.