I loved this simple-minded show for couples with kids between the ages of 3 and 15.... which may have been its biggest liability... I was amused because I could relate... my wife and I are in a similar life-setting... but not so for the majority of people, which made this show very target-oriented. While the jokes, situations and lines adequately frisked our funny bones, I must agree with some critics that the cracks were usually stereotypical and borderline juvenile. Paula Marshall is beautiful but sometimes would overact the little charmers for the camera, such as her incessant tongue over lips - very sensual but she does it while cooking pasta, brushing the kids teeth and on and on... Still...I did like the show and I was indeed looking forward to it on Tuesday evenings, until NBC came to the same conclusion... that despite being a very engaging show for a limited audience of a few happy chaotic middle-life couples, viewers dropped every week and advertisers started to flee back to the ratings jungle for the next flavour of the day... too bad... I was looking forward to laugh with them fresh faces, instead of the tired old Frasier or the flood of reality shows... another prime half-hour to waste on the net surfin...
Review of Hidden Hills
