A flat out misfire showing again that being a good dramatic actress/actor (Perette) doesn't mean you're good at comedy. It also shows (again) that being a funny stand up comedian (Leggero) doesn't mean you're hitting it out of the park in a sitcom. And if we take these two points and you make a show with so-so characters and with scripts lacking funny lines and don't give enough room for funny performances, you'll end up with a comedy show that ****. To be fair to Pauley Perette, her character as the sincere caring mother was probably designed as a counter weight against the irresponsible, kind of crazy relatives in her house. But you need at least a minimal amount of comedic feel and timing to play along and maybe the guts to tell the director that this is not working, not with that script. And, sorry, I can't see the comedic strain in her. But otoh, the rest of the gang isn't funny enough largely due to the script to make that premise work. Jaime Camil and Izzy Diaz are the lucky ones in this show. They get to play light and laid back characters making it easy for them to be funny or at least enjoyable. Natasha Leggero has, in my opinion, the heaviest weight to lift. She is supposed to be funny and a little crazy but she also has to persuade us that she is basically a good person having a good, sometimes even heart-warming relationship with her sister. Leggero can only make it work in part, her performance looks forced and she can't merge all these antagonistic character traits into one person convincingly. I don't blame her. She's a stand-up comedian, not a trained actress. And it would require a good, seasoned comedy actress to pull that off. So, the basic ingredients are there, but the show doesn't have the resources to make it work, unless a miracle happens. Well, good luck with that.

A sad and sorry disappointment for Pauley Perrette fans. No reasonable person expected her to play her new character like Abby on NCIS, but we needed some kind of spark or energy that is sorely lacking from her in this role. I blame the show creators and writers for this lack of anything interesting for this character to work with. A show about a single mom having hard times... but wait, there's a twist... gee, that's an attention getter (this last, sarcasm, just in case it's not obvious). The sister and brother-in-law characters are superficial and unbelievable. The kid and the man-servant/friend are tolerable. Someone should have stood up at the first airing of the pilot and insisted on a re-write from the ground up. The show is not funny and predictable in all of the worst ways. From the network that gave us MASH and Big Bang Theory, score this a failure.