The first 2.5 seasons were really nice. Great acting, writing. Very breezy and easy to watch and enjoy. It looked going in it would be able to stave off the sitcom cliché blahs. For 2.5 seasons it held up. Then mid season 3 it crashed bad. I guess they ran out of ideas or writers or talent or the execs punted. Who knows but it blew up big time. Every cliché every mediocrity every painful tired wrung out trick. Talk too fast. Every line shouted and screamed. The stories went straight in the toilet and relied solely on that sitcom warhorse, the lie. The lie is where some family member has to be "protected" by a massive bizarre days long lie and all the hysterical hijinks that result. Because after you see that a million times it only gets funny.
Review of Melissa & Joey
