In Spectrum On Demand's 'Mad About You' Revival, Paul and Jamie Buchman return as bickering empty-nesters. Alan Sepinwall's review
) also tries to land Paul and Jamie in a contemporary context, with mixed success. On the one hand, Mark’s new wife — and Jamie’s new best friend — Tonya is not only a good straight woman for all the Buchman mania, but a welcome African-American face on a show that, like most of NBC’s Nineties sitcoms, presented a very white vision of New York.
, where he played the much older — with a gray ponytail to compensate for his disappearing hairline — boyfriend of Michael Douglas’ daughter. Season Two of that show was mostly a disappointment, but Reiser was a hoot. Starting with the fourth episode, though, Mabel is mostly relegated to the sidelines, and the show is better for it. That’s not a knock on Abby Quinn, who — like Janeane Garofalo as the adult Mabel in the original finale — does a nice job of evoking both her fictional parents.
The later episodes aren’t hugely funny — I felt something resembling a laugh from a spit-take Hunt does in an episode featuring the return of Paul’s mother Sylvia — but they’re pleasantly nostalgic in a way the frantic earlier ones never quite achieve. It’s about what you might have hoped for from arevival, even if the whole thing feels unnecessary — particularly confined to such an out-of-the-way corner of the Peak TV universe.
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