That doesn't mean I still won't take a chance and watch it. I will. I love Bobby Cannavale, who has stepped into the Piven role. And Sarah Paulson... well, sometimes I love her (Deadwood) and sometimes I really want to throw things at my TV to make her stop talking (Studio 60). I'm hoping that her performance here falls into the the former category and not the latter. I trust that the dialogue and episodes will be great, since Thomas is on hand, and I've got nothing but faith in him, but the entire crux of this show really falls to the chemistry between the two leads, and it is hard to tell from the commercials if that is really working or not. So we'll see how that goes. Even if I don't love it, it has got to be better than that atrocious Valentine series (also attempting to be about Gods on earth trying to help humans get coupled off) that aired ever so briefly on the CW this fall. Anything would be better than that. Anything.

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