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TITLE: THE LOOP - FOX MID-SEASON 2006
Info:
Premiere Date: Special Preview on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 (20th Century Fox Television)
Network: FOX
Time: Thursdays at 8:30 p.m.
Cast: Starring Bret Harrison, Eric Christian Olsen,
Amanda Loncar, Sarah Mason, Philip Baker Hall, Mimi
Rogers, and Joy Osmanski
Introduction:
Life as an executive at an airline must be pretty
boring, considering all of the partying and drinking
that you must do... wait, is that what an airline
executive really does? Well, that is what an airline
executive does if you are Sam, the youngest executive
ever at the airline! Life during the day is all
business, and life at night is, well, party hearty...
but by morning, you have to be back to business again!
How can you manage to do that? Find out in The Loop!
Cast Details:
The Loop stars Bret Harrison (who was previously on
Grounded for Life) as Sam, a recent college graduate,
and the first among his friends to get a real job--and
a good one at that, a job as an executive at an
airline. Despite the fact that he has a real job, he
still has to contend with his roommates, including his
brother Sully (Eric Christian Olsen), who is a total
slacker, future doctor-to-be Piper (Amanda Loncar),
and bartender and stereotypical blonde Lizzy (Sarah
Mason, previously on Quintuplets). At work, he has to
contend with his highly demanding boss, Russ (Philip
Baker Hall of "Bruce Almighty"), co-worker Mimi (Mimi
Rodgers of The Geena Davis Show and The X-Files) who,
despite being twice Sam's age, is a sexual predator
that wants
Sam more than anything else in the world, and
secretary Darcy (Joy Osmanski), who recently graduated
in the top of her class at MIT but has been employed
as a... secretary.
Pilot Plot:
In the pilot episode, Sam gives Piper a voucher so
that her boyfriend can fly out to Chicago to meet her
for her birthday. But when Piper and her boyfriend get
into a fight and Sam has to get the voucher back due
to the "cycle," and has to decide what is more
important: getting the voucher back or getting Piper
for himself. In the end, Sam (who is at the same time
responsible for coming up with a cost-cutting measure
for the airline) makes a decision that (although it'll
make his fellow employees forever hate him), it makes
Russ very satisfied in his newest executive.
The second episode of the show (which will be the
timeslot premiere episode) involves Sam being asked to
come up with a plan for an low-fare airline to compete
with airlines such as Southwest after he bursts out
laughing at the original airline planned by another
employee--Jack Air--which the employee presented with
such advertising campaign slogans as "Jack It." But
after taking the "tequila challenge" (watch the
episode to find out what I'm talking about), he is
unable to have enough time to work on the plan before
the deadline. How is he going to work his way out of
that one?
Analysis:
I'm highly critical of any new show that comes around
these days, and even further, I've come to this point
where any new show that I automatically assume any new
show that Fox will be airing will be a disaster.
However, this show honestly isn't bad at all--in fact,
I kind of enjoyed the first two episodes. To an
extent, and this is going to sound EXTREMELY odd, but
the show kind of reminds me of Bewitched--think about
it this way: Bewitched is (not completely, but to some
extent) about an employee that works hard in his
normal atmosphere at work, and has to deal with a home
life that is very much different, and often finds the
disasters at home conveniently work in his favor at
work. That is basically the same idea with The Loop,
at
least as far as the first two episodes are concerned.
The cast of the show is not the greatest casting I've
ever seen, though, but then again, this is FOX we are
talking about. What actor wants to be on a show when
they know that the odds are very good that the network
will quickly cancel that particular show?
Conclusion:
It really isn't a bad show in comparison to some of
the shows that make it on the air these days. However,
it would be unrealistic to believe that this show is
going to last too long. Keep in mind that we are
talking about FOX here, a network that probably has
the highest
percentage of these "revolving door" shows. But, this
is a decent show and is definitely better than many
other shows that are currently on the air, so watch it
while it is around--perhaps if it gets any reasonable
response, it won't be a victim of this revolving door
syndrome.
Final Numbers (out of 5 stars):
Watchability: 4/5
Funniness: 3.5/5
Overall: 4/5
-- Reviewed by skees53 on 03/08/06
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