Joanna Garcia

Joanna Garcia, “Best You”, produced by the former producer of the popular series “Friends” premieres on ABC tonight. “Best You” Jennifer Finnigan Begins, Joanna Garcia, Josh Cooke, Jake Lacy, Debra Jo Rupp, Kurt Fuller on ABC Chanel 5.

What the program seems to be the creation of a device such as recurring – each pair is a similar question in quick succession of court designed to illuminate the variation associated with the duration of the relationship – veers between gentle and effective.

The potential to run into a routine, especially with the long-married Vicky and Joel, looms large. But when it does work, relatable connection tics of “best usted”debe squeeze a few chuckles from anyone who has been in love for a long time.

simmer to you better manners with wit as it follows two sisters with opposite approaches to romance – high maintenance Maddie, nine years with the groom himself, and Mia-seize the moment, marry a guy who knew it seven weeks. (“What is she, a Kardashian?” Complains a friend dismay.) Its state-not-do-that the mother of a third party supplies, a bit cynical, perspective.

Undercovers Nbc

Undercovers Nbc, There is a surprising revelation in the heart of “undercover agents”, the new spy drama from NBC: Even people can live a pretty boring love.

First game tonight frothy, we find Steven and Samantha Bloom (Boris Kodjoe and raw MBATHA Gugu-). They run a small catering company, and although it is jaw droppingly beautiful, your marriage is at idle.

While attending a wedding, she looks sadly at the newlyweds, said: “I can not remember the last time we danced.” Later, in bed, he admits that “are as backward” for sex. But avoid the carnal gymnastics police to some Z’s. Ho-hum.

But they have a little faith, help is on the road. As a result, the flowers were two of the best spies

The CIA has had – until he fell in love five years ago and retired. But now a big fish in the agency (McRaney Gerald) wants to turn them back on for a vital mission abroad.

Flowers reluctantly agrees to return to work and before you know it, they’re blowing things, beating up bad guy and participate in something called “sexpionage.” Of course it is an important bill – one that rekindles that old romantic sizzle. Who knew that the work of espionage could be a form of Viagra?

The series comes from super-producer J.J. Abrams, who has worked in this genre before. However, “secret agents” is more “Hart to Hart” to “Alias” and this is good news for viewers seeking pure escapism wish-fulfillment, without all the mythology mind sore.

Unfortunately,
The pilot, not a total knockout, leaving a little bland and safe. While Abrams was insufficient to keep our interest, feels like I was deflected from the gas pedal. The action sequences are not inducers of breath and romance is undercooked.

Moreover, MBATHA-Kodjoe and Raw are indeed very attractive. I think you spend more time with them. In addition, the writers wisely set the story in a way that the flowers do not know about the spying careers of others (who worked separately). This will no doubt be a source of tension skeleton in the cupboard.

Now let’s hope Abrams push the throttle and turn “secret agents” in the vicarious thrill ride should be.

Gugu Mbatha Raw

Gugu Mbatha Raw, LOS ANGELES, California – J.J. Abrams loves a strong woman. Throughout his career, the producer has produced a lot of young actresses who could express emotions not only complex but also manage to kick some serious rear.

The mastermind of used eyeglasses to Jennifer Garner “Alias”, making her a super star as CIA agent Sydney Bristow, collected Cutie Canadian Evangeline Lilly for the role of warrior island become fugitive Kate Austen on “Lost” and Zoe Salda?a made a household name after casting his brain as in a spacesuit sexy – Uhuru in Star Trek. ” His latest import, courtesy of NBC’s new husband and wife spy drama “secret agents” – Gugu MBATHA raw-AccessHollywood.com s newest Rising Star – is the latest star of JJ ready to go.

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“It was a strange and wonderful journey,” the British beauty recently accessed, landing the role of Samantha, half the CIA spy couples the power of flowers in front of German origin piece Boris Kodjoe, in drama sexy and daring, which premieres Wednesday night at 8 pm on NBC.

After a series of memorable pieces of television in his native England, Gugu was in New York (after the play he was starring on the London stage – Shakespeare’s Hamlet, with Jude Law – made the leap into the pond -) when the call came.

“I was on Broadway when I first came the initial audition,” said Gugu. “I really do not know much about the project because it was so top secret.”

She participated in an early hearing, but without knowing that her trial had attracted the attention of senior, Oxford-born actress was actually away in a picturesque location, when he got the big call.

“I went to Egypt for a yoga holiday,” he said. “I was in Egypt, under a palm tree and get a call from my boss saying:” I want in the morning to read for the lead role “… I managed to return to London and then back to Los Angeles in a couple of days. So yes, it’s been a very strange and wonderful journey. ”

Although she is the protagonist of a series of Shakespeare plays, a spy drama called “Spooks” and Dr. TV “cult-favorite who” in his native Britain, playing Samantha – a woman of beauty, brains and muscle – has been very exciting for Gugu.

“We have a lot of tricks. It is very exciting and not something I’ve really done before,” said Gugu. “The action is definitely exciting for me, who had just come from doing Shakespeare on stage. It is quite a contrast from a real hero … It has been a new challenge to be out there doing something a little stronger and a little higher is at stake … I come to the class of hitting people and take people and punch people. It’s fun.

While work has kept too busy to watch TV while commuting in Los Angeles, the actress won the encounter with his own image one day – in public transport.

“[It was] a little surreal – the first time I saw my face on a bus. But I feel very distant from it because, I mean, many of these images are so retouched with the posters. Do not really see it and go,” That’s me, ‘”Gugu, said with a healthy dose of realism refreshing and endearing.” I see it and go, “Ooh!” Who is that girl that looks a bit like me I kind ?’… to equate myself in those pictures, many of them are Samantha Bloom, the character. So I have some distance to everything. ”

While she is currently in the midst of filming the first eight episodes already ordered the new series, there are projects already in the future of actress plate. Gugu is then on the big screen in 2011 on the campus romance “Crowne Larry” alongside Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts.

Undercovers

Undercovers, “Agents Secrets” (20:00 ET Wednesday, NBC) is great.

But if you’re looking for something more than superficial of all the looks, you may be disappointed by this JJ Abrams-Josh Reims spy drama, which ditches much that was good to show previous spy Abrams ‘Alias’, and replaces it in, well, a lot of nothing beautiful in appearance.

“Agents Secrets” stars two actors attractive raw Gugu MBATHA and Boris Kodjoe as Steven Bloom and Samantha, a catering team of husband and wife spy who gave life five years ago. Do not be surprised when they are called back to duty and be super smooth secret operations in a number of attractive foreign locations. (One of the steals of “secret agents” is that Abrams, who directed the pilot episode for the show, missed his vocation as an interior designer. Everything about the show is fabulous – even supposedly decrepit interiors are fabulously decrepit. )

But what lies beneath the surface – under the covers, if you will – are truths about relationships that also cease to amaze. Love is not always easy, is clear. Even when the two parties to a marriage are attractive and devoted, sometimes life is so uneven that I forget to appreciate each other. Visit your local store of greeting cards from other examples of “wisdom Undercovers” style.

The trick of the show’s premise is that when Steven and Samantha were CIA agents, working separately, and we’ve never talked about what they had done in the past. So they are learning about others, but “secret agents” seems so aggressively focused on saying to herself, episodic stories, these personal and professional revelations seem destined to be as cheerfully banal and inconsequential as anything else about the show .

From ‘Alias’ went off the air a few years ago, there has been a certain amount of spin about what went wrong with that schedule, some of its creator, Abrams. Let me say this loud and clear: some of us liked the mythology of the series, especially in his first two seasons. Sure, things got too dense and stupid performance later in the show, but without going into mind-numbing detail, suffice it to say that there was a lot of things that went wrong with ‘Alias’ in his later years. For all its problems as an excuse saying that secret agents “seems to be saying – that is,” Mythologies can be tricky! Let’s get rid of them! “- It takes only a short-sighted and disappointing in what works and does not work in that type of performance.

I’m not asking mono alias “secret agents” or “Lost” to the case. I ask you to recognize what we see every week with flavor-espionage operations in many, many TV programs these days. Unless we people care about these maneuvers (such as the funny ‘Chuck’ and the increasingly terrible ‘Fringe’), which just seem like the same old movements in fancier clothes. (Sidebar: If there was abandoned “[Fringe ‘Thursday 21:00 ET, Fox], I recommend you to reconnect with the series this season. He was very good in the middle of season 2, focusing on the type of interpersonal relationships and well-constructed challenge mythological elements that “secret agents” seems desperate to avoid.)

In short, “secret agents” seems determined to throw out the baby with the bath water. The key point of the program is to show sexy super spies have interesting adventures and meet again in their attempt to put the spark back in your marriage. There is nothing necessarily objectionable, but forgive me if I expect more from a series that JJ Abrams is involved in (although, given the number of television and film projects on his plate these days, I guess that their participation on the side of the small screen is minimal).

Having said all this, “secret agents” is not a task of looking. Gerald McRaney, who plays grumpy driver and little impressed by Bloom ‘is one of the main pleasures of the series, and Ben Schwartz, who plays field staff support nerd, is energetically enthusiastic (though the character may be marked down a few notches). Kodjoe Mbutu-Raw and jokes along with the pilot and air show’s production values are first class.

I’ll keep watching, hoping that “secret agents” do not run out of memory and weight below its shiny exterior.

Better With You

Better With You, Tonight, ABC debuted its new show BETTER WITH YOU. This show revolves around three couples – Mia and Casey, Maddie and Ben, and Vicky and Joel. Mia and Maddie are sisters Vicki and Joel and their parents. Mia Casey just met seven weeks ago, Maddie and Ben have been together nine years, and Joel and Vicky have been married for 35 years. It’s like three generations of couples despite the fact that Mia and Maddie is only four years apart.

Once I learned that a leading actor in this show, I knew I had to set in. Mia is played by Joanna Garcia, formerly of Reba. Maddie is played by Jennifer Finnigan, who recognized me immediately and I knew she loved but could not remember where I saw her. Turns out I still do not know, even after reading his appearances on television before. Regardless, I love it. I’m also a big fan of Debra Jo Rupp, who plays Vicky, and was the mother of That 70s Show. With a cast like this, I had high hopes.

I was not let down. Better with you was cute and funny. The mood was right and Joanna Garcia and Jennifer Finnigan played their parts well and their boyfriends were complimentary to their functions. I loved the interaction between the family and Debra Jo Rupp was as fun as ever.

On this episode we learn that Mia and Casey just met seven weeks ago, but plans to Casey in the proposal and ask for help from Maddie. Maddie, who has been dating Ben for nine years, is not that thrilled about this wedding proposal quickly and Casey is discouraged, or at least to be postponed. She considers her plan backfired when busts Mia Maddie apartment screaming, “Casey suggested. I said yes.” Maddie Just after pondering if Mia would say yes even if Casey proposal.

The next obstacle is that their parents. They have never liked any of the boyfriends of Mia and everyone prepares for the worst. Ben Casey offers tips to win and share their sheet cheatsheet later themes and topics sure winner. Casey decides to be himself and everyone is surprised when Mia’s parents are ecstatic about the announcement of the wedding. Maddie gets offended when people laughed at her “valid lifestyle choice”, everyone takes a drink, play their own game of drinking Maddie.

Maddie I can not let go, however, and continues to press them as to why they need to get married at this time until Ben cries out that Mia is pregnant. Yes they will get married because the condom broke, but Casey says he would have married anyway. Mia’s parents keep up the momentum and soon be celebrating grandparents. The celebration ends when you stop to all and Vicky and Joel Ben find the card tricks. I believe that the future meetings of the family are going to be a little uncomfortable.

I loved this show. The beginning and the end assemblies showing the differences between the three couples was well played. I like that have made the history of a younger sister to marry before her older sister, and added the twist that the older sister actually has a boyfriend and has been with him longer than many marriages. I like Mia and Maddie are exact opposites, but they remain very similar in their sincerity and insecurities. I think this show might be a winner.

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