Sunday 11 July 2021

Good Company | CBS | 1996

March - April 1996
CBS | 6 episodes | Sitcom


WHO'S IN IT? Wendie Malick, Lauren Graham, Seymour Cassel

SYNOPSIS: Good Company was set at the offices of Blanton, Booker & Hayden, a Manhattan ad agency. Art director Will would rather be a serious painter than an ad man and his recent Cleo Award win has given him serious thought to changing career. However,  newly appointed creative director Zoe pooh-pooh's his plans to quit and assigns him to jazz up a new toilet-paper line (toilet paper with baking soda!). Other characters include Ron, the account director, Liz, another copywriter, Dale, a junior art director, and Bobby the agency's president and CEO.

Six episodes were made, and there's very little evidence of the show.

VERDICT: It's not bad, but there's nothing overly unique or stand out - it's a run of the mill workplace sitcom set in New York. For some reason the time is given in the corner of each scene - adds nothing. Wendie Malick plays Zoe, a high powered no-nonsense business woman. After Will tries to quit she tells him: "I think someone needs to remind you that this is a place of business. You can't just sit around and drink cappuccino and discuss your personal problems all day like you were a cast member of that show Friends, because I've got news for you - this isn't, and we ain't!"

CANCELLED BEFORE ITS TIME? Well...I like Wendie Malick, but the show didn't make an impression.

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