Review: Happy Endings
3.5 stars
Cliché romantic comedies about friends have been done and done again… and all owe an extreme debt to “Friends.” That doesn’t keep us from loving them or the networks from airing them, though. ABC aired two episodes of the new show “Happy Endings” back-to-back on Wednesday, April 13, starting at 9:30 p.m. The pilot episode begins with a wedding where Alex leaves Dave at the altar, creating tension in the group of six best friends. It gets better when Dave has rebound sex with a high school girl. Everything blows up at the stereotypical dinner-scene-gone-wrong. As far as pilots go, I wasn’t intrigued, but the episode that aired next was “laugh-your-ass-off funny,” and even included a sassy gay friend. Who doesn’t love a sassy gay friend? If the show can keep up with the pace of its second episode, then I would recommend giving it a try. A good laugh from a cheesy romantic comedy is needed every now and then.
