Indebted: Everybody's Talking About the Pilot
February 6, 2020 7:35 PM - Season 1, Episode 1 - Subscribe
Young parents Dave and Rebecca end up having to take care of Dave's parents, who have mishandled their finances and need help to pay down a sizable debt. (NBC US broadcast)
Variety review: "Indebted,” NBC’s new sitcom, has the virtue of a top-of-the-line cast. Now if only it could figure out what to do with them. Fran Drescher makes a return to network comedy as half of a couple (along with Steven Weber) who’ve blown through their savings on luxuries with no clear plan on how to spend rest of their lives; they move in with their son (Adam Pally) and daughter-in-law (Abby Elliott). Together, these two couples contain four comic ringers — and yet the plots they’re forced through feel so sparklessly rudimentary that the actors (especially Pally) can’t quite be blamed for sleepwalking through them."
The Hollywood Reporter - Fran Drescher on 'The Nanny' Musical, Her New Sitcom and Heading Back to Broadcast
Variety review: "Indebted,” NBC’s new sitcom, has the virtue of a top-of-the-line cast. Now if only it could figure out what to do with them. Fran Drescher makes a return to network comedy as half of a couple (along with Steven Weber) who’ve blown through their savings on luxuries with no clear plan on how to spend rest of their lives; they move in with their son (Adam Pally) and daughter-in-law (Abby Elliott). Together, these two couples contain four comic ringers — and yet the plots they’re forced through feel so sparklessly rudimentary that the actors (especially Pally) can’t quite be blamed for sleepwalking through them."
The Hollywood Reporter - Fran Drescher on 'The Nanny' Musical, Her New Sitcom and Heading Back to Broadcast
Yeah, I had to give it a shot out of The Nanny & Wings nostalgia, and because I'll give pretty much every network pilot a look-see & a Fanfare thread (aside from the police-procedurals, which are a hard pass unless there's some kind of genre or interesting cop/not-a-cop hook), but, oof.
I've seen worse, but, I think I'll be killing it off the Tivo queue before the next episode. And I'm still watching 'The Unicorn' -- I don't know if that's an endorsement of 'The Unicorn' or a sign of my lack of standards, but either way, this is not a must-see.
posted by oh yeah! at 7:09 AM on February 7, 2020
I've seen worse, but, I think I'll be killing it off the Tivo queue before the next episode. And I'm still watching 'The Unicorn' -- I don't know if that's an endorsement of 'The Unicorn' or a sign of my lack of standards, but either way, this is not a must-see.
posted by oh yeah! at 7:09 AM on February 7, 2020
And I'm still watching 'The Unicorn' -- I don't know if that's an endorsement of 'The Unicorn' or a sign of my lack of standards, but either way, this is not a must-see.
I wouldn't say that The Unicorn is actively bad, and it's certainly several steps less bad than Indebted, but it drifted farther and farther down our priority list and started accruing at the bottom of the DVR queue, and I finally realized we just... didn't care about it anymore.
posted by Etrigan at 7:32 AM on February 7, 2020
I wouldn't say that The Unicorn is actively bad, and it's certainly several steps less bad than Indebted, but it drifted farther and farther down our priority list and started accruing at the bottom of the DVR queue, and I finally realized we just... didn't care about it anymore.
posted by Etrigan at 7:32 AM on February 7, 2020
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I like Fran Drescher. I love Adam Pally. I have fond memories of Steven Weber. I adore Abby Elliott.
And this show sucked. I just... I cannot imagine how much I would have hated it if I hadn't loved the leads so much. I so desperately want this show to be good, and I've already resigned myself to watching a couple more just to see if it recovers, but at the same time, I hope it just gets cancelled so I don't have to mercy-kill it off my DVR queue (a la The Unicorn).
posted by Etrigan at 6:23 AM on February 7, 2020