Joey (TV Series) Joey and the Big Break: Part 1 (2005) User Reviews

Joey and the Big Break: Part 1 (#2.1)

[ComedyFan2010 · 8/10 · 15 October 2014]

Next day Joey wakes up with Alex and they try to save the situation by doing the whole dating thing after sex. He is not voted off the show but demanding raise makes it bad for him so he auditions for Kevin Smith project. Gina works now for Bobbie and Michael pretends to be Joey to get together with a young actress.

A pretty good beginning of a new season. Only the whole Joey and Alex thing I don't care about. They are the worst match ever. But it had the great joke of him giving her beer instead of champagne.

Gina and Bobby working together is great. I can see them doing lots of fun things in this combination.

A mixed start to the second series

[studioAT · 4/10 · 15 December 2017]

With ratings lower than NBC thought they should be, and the critics bashing the show (often unfairly) the powers that be pushed the panic button on 'Joey', sending it into a hasty retooling that saw the character of Zach be added as a friend for Joey, Bobbie playing more of an active role, and Joey leave 'Deep Powder'.

Throw in the need to deal with the fallout from the series 1 finale involving Alex and Joey and it makes for a packed first episode back, not all of which works successfully.

It was nice to see Gina starting to work for Bobbie, and I agree with the previous reviewer that this lent itself to a lot of comedic possibilities.

All the Joey/Alex stuff was played and written well, but the less said about the scenes regarding his career the better. It's very difficult to root for Joey as a character when every time he gets a lucky break he stuffs it up. They really did make him out to be the dimmest man on the planet here, and it's unworthy of the character.

A mixed start to series 2.