The humor is fast and often beer-related.

Fitfully funny, there's undeniable energy but also obvious limitations to this approach, which perhaps explains each half-hour's segmentation into back-to-back 11-minute episodes.

Secret Girlfriend could add up to something worthwhile, with more of that kind of elliptical character revelation and fewer generic dirty-boy adventures. Ultimately, I want to know more about “you,’’ not them.

Secret Girlfriend is just too clumsy, and not funny enough. Part of the problem is the format.

Secret Girlfriend feels like it never aspires to be more than a leaf blowing past us in the wind.

The acting is terrible, the crude dudespeak unfunny; perfect only for fans of everything in soft-core porn flicks but the sex scenes.