The Book Group (2002–2003)
3/10
What's all the fuss?
10 April 2013
Warning: Spoilers
This showed up on netflix recently, and I watched the first season.

The show started out reasonably funny, a decent plot concept, but then, pretty much moved away from the original theme of book group, discussing books and meeting friends to how many different types of sexual behaviour can we put in a TV series?

What did it miss other than bestiality?

infidelity - everyone's cheating on everyone (dark humor? uh, no)

bisexuality - not only is everyone cheating on everyone, but cheating with both sexes, woohoo! so "progressive"

group sex

swapping partners

gratuitous sex

gay football player sex (whatever), but yeah, football players seem to be heavy in the marrying women as a front, and cheating on other men and women. yeah, okay.

party time

I watched this show because I also liked the Green Wing actress, and recognized the lead female from the old House series.

Sex in place of humor? yea And, it's not even that funny.

Can't write a good script? Character development? Just go for gratuitous sex, of all kinds. That will keep them hooked...

Dumb show. Too bad. It started out well.
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