Nia Portokalos (Nia Vardalos) returns home with her new husband Thomas Miller (Steven Eckholdt) after their Greek honeymoon. She works at her family's Greek restaurant under her father. It's her big fat Greek life.
I expected this to be bad. It's not horrible. I expected that the show had no audience. It had a good chunk of viewers despite the drop after the pilot. Every show drops from its pilot. It follows the movie from a year earlier. It was unable to bring back John Corbett but they made a good joke about that in the pilot. Here's the deal. I didn't laugh. It's a rather standard family sitcom. I'm not sure Vardalos can shoulder a show as the lead. The family is good as most of the movie cast has returned but it could add a few kids. Eckholdt is a functional substitute but he's not adding anything. If the family had kids, they could be students for Thomas. It's rare to have a successful TV show to follow a successful movie. They keep trying.
I expected this to be bad. It's not horrible. I expected that the show had no audience. It had a good chunk of viewers despite the drop after the pilot. Every show drops from its pilot. It follows the movie from a year earlier. It was unable to bring back John Corbett but they made a good joke about that in the pilot. Here's the deal. I didn't laugh. It's a rather standard family sitcom. I'm not sure Vardalos can shoulder a show as the lead. The family is good as most of the movie cast has returned but it could add a few kids. Eckholdt is a functional substitute but he's not adding anything. If the family had kids, they could be students for Thomas. It's rare to have a successful TV show to follow a successful movie. They keep trying.