First Wives Club

Together, Scott, Buteau, and Bathe make convincing partners in crime. Separately, they have a bit more trouble finding anchors in the scripts. ... The driving force of the story isn’t the search for self-esteem, but their push to get everyone else to take them as seriously as they take themselves. That plus their renewed friendship will make for rich narrative areas if the show leans into them rather than the early episodes’ flatter quests for revenge.

Flavorless. ... The broad, blue humor — which works well in a 100-minute film — renders each half-hour episode a slog.