Call it an instance of too much, too soon, but after a two-and-a-half season binge, I could barely muster the effort to see this one through. It's fine! It's very easy viewing, a well-to-do family stuck in a riches-to-rags situation, making do in some podunk town, holed up at a motel. O'Hara and Levy are great, but three seasons in, I'm struggling to find the heart here. The rich family is really no less terrible than they all were when the series began, which was only a moderate type of terrible to begin with, so it's not like they're learning or growing as people. And after teasing a "they might get their money back" arc in the first season, there's been nothing on that front. So here we are, with an often funny but always pointless show living out its days on an unknown cable channel. In an age where there's so much TV to watch, this feels like it can't possibly crack a top one hundred. So.
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