Clipped

I love Ashley Tisdale. I would tune in to a half hour show of her reading the phone book. And it would be better than this.

First, it's not funny, it's sad. Second the characters are caricatures rather than a fleshed out person who might actually exist. Third, most of the humor is potty-humor (that is too sophomoric to be high school humor.) Fourth, token gay guy? Check. Fifth, token black? Check. Sixth, short guy who's a failure owns the shop? Check.

I follow Ashley on Twitter and read her tweets about the show. I was looking forwards to seeing it, glad to see her back on TV. She's done other projects that are hilarious so the fault lies not in our stars but in the writers who ran out of ideas at episode 1.

With many sitcoms ranging between 0 and 10% (in metacritic sites), it may be a plus not to ...suck so much. I mean not to be mediocre (that's difficult too), just not being awful.

Instead of the usual ...bar, here you have a barbershop. Unfortunately the usual annoying fake laugh track is here and sometimes, ridiculously out of place.

There are a couple of semi-cute leads and some veterans of comedy and also a couple of unfulfilled romances to keep you going, but the jokes are not clever. And they don't try to be.

So is Clipped worth watching and follow to its ...remaining weeks? No, but didn't make me wanna brake my TV either.

Well the story is new on TV ,, a barbershop with funny bits a people ,, yep you know what i mean,, but the plot was a fresh the script looks alright the whole episode was easily understandable and the comedy was a bit mild not the strongly laughable type but it was distributed evenly on the characters and the time of the episode which i think what made it somehow partially enjoyable.

I think they better up their game on the script a notch at least in the first couple of episodes ,, having giggles is okay but even one strong laugh would make the show more appealing and catchy.

As for the cast; i weirdly felt that Ryan Pinkston the guy who had a couple of short scenes in the episode was the funniest i really wish to see more of that "i hate you all" kind of banter for him,, it really fits .. Mike Castle, George Wendt, Diona Reasonover were all okay as for Matt Cook and Ashley Tisdale i still didn't feel their comedy.

Overall, we can't say the choice of Tbs was wrong for the show considering the history of the network, but i think they'll make things work for the show and the audience,, yet i don't think it'll be the type of shows to be renewed for a second season (same as "Ground Floor","Your Family Or Mine") but let's see how the next couple of episodes will turn to be.

I never got to watch this show, and its sad that a show that had potential is on a network that 1/2 of America doesn't even get.

What Hollywood doesn't understand is that you have to let a show get some legs to stand on its own and find an audience. Hey Hollywood, how about instead of cancelling every show that isn't an INSTANT hit, give them a chance and see what happens.

Do you remember Cheers, Family Guy, Gilligan's Island... they were all cancelled...

I've watched 7 episodes, so I feel I can comment fairly on the show. My roommate loves sitcoms, so I tend to see a lot of them, including ones I wouldn't ordinarily flip on. I used to like My Boys on TBS, so I thought this might be reasonably similar. It's not. You have a half dozen people working in a barbershop, with the owner who has a Napoleon complex. Some of the characters are improving, the owner Ben and his lifelong friend Mo have developed something. Buzzy (George Wendt) has teamed up with Charmaine (Diona Reasonover). They make the show worth watching. Having seen enough of these sitcoms, I think Diona Reasonover will be the one lasting character to make enough of an impression to either make this show work, built around her character, or to move on to something where she can thrive.