The writing has gotten funnier, but Jordana Spiro and Kyle Howard need some acting lessons. And what happened to PJ and Brendan's kiss in the kitchen?
I love My Boys on TBS, but I have a couple of gripes.
Some of the acting is really awful. Jordana Spiro is cute and she’s approachable and I wouldn’t recommend anything as rash as recasting her. I think she embodies PJ and fits right in with this group. But this girl really needs to get herself to an acting class.Her default setting is Giggle. And Kyle Howard (Bobby) acts like he’s in a high school drama class. Always indicating his emotion instead of actually feeling any, and he has no comedic timing whatsoever.
Still, I can live with it. What I can’t live with is that the writers set up a storyline between Brendan and PJ, even giving us a cliff hanger kiss, and then dismiss the whole thing in one episode. I was expecting some answers when this show came back from hiatus, but got nothing. They’re not pretending it didn’t happen, it’s like it really never happened. Like neither one of them was actually in that cliff hanger episode. It’s maddening.
But besides the above complaints, this show has actually gotten funnier. So Howard trips over his lines, and Spiro sometimes misses her funny moments, but the other guys make up for it. The other guys know what show they’re in, especially Jamie Kaler (Mike) and Jim Gaffigan (Andy) and even Kellee Stewart as PJ’s only real girlfriend is hitting her marks this year. In fact, the whole group is really gelling. Even the sucky ones. Now if we could just get PJ and Brendan to admit that they kissed in the kitchen.
