“My Boys”
I admit it: I’m a sucker for any television show about journalists. I’m probably the only straight guy in America who mourns the passing of “Pepper Dennis.”
So, when a show about a female sportswriter who’s constantly surrounded by guy buddies hits TBS — “My Boys,” which debuted this week — I’m there.
Jordana Spiro plays an improbably hot sportswriter for the Chicago Sun-Times. (I say “improbably hot” because sportswriters get access to free food at every damn event they go to and, well, they tend to at least nibble. If they’re not going to be appearing on TV, most journalists don’t really look like Jordana Spiro or her male counterparts on the show.)
Like a lot of my female friends, she’s most comfortable around men, whether they be her brother, her old college roommate or fellow sportswriters. As a result, the single P.J. Franklin is kind of a mess when it comes to the dating world, making “My Boys” a sort of “Sex in the City” with less talk about stupidly expensive shoes and more about how P.J. freaks out the guy she’s interested in because she’s not girly enough for him.
It’s pretty good and, apparently, it’s pretty on-base as far as female sportswriters are concerned. I could do without the “Sex in the City”-style voiceovers (their appearance on “Medium” this season has been especially unwelcome), but otherwise, this looks like a show that’s got potential.
Hopefully P.J. will be around a lot longer than fellow Windy City journalist Pepper was.
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Oooooh! Pepper Dennis! Even when she wasn’t covered with naught but blue greasepaint, she could aact and was funny!
Comment by McMozzbi — December 6, 2006 @ 23:29