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Critic Consensus: Stars Matthew Perry and Thomas Lennon make a fine Oscar and Felix, but The Odd Couple's flat jokes and canned laughter are pretty old hat.
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Cast
as Oscar Madison
as Felix Unger
as Teddy
as Emily, Lindsay
as Dani
as Katie
as Roy
as Murph
as Ashley
as Casey
as Kim
as Sharon
as Himself
as Steve
as Gaby
as Himself
as Bill
as Walter
as Brad
as Olivia
as Annie
as Amy
as Lizzie
as Himself
as Alan
as Marilyn
as Stage Manager
as Deena
as Himself
as Frank
as Jessica
as Erin
as Cindy
as Chad
as Handyman
as Ingrid
as Carl
as Waitress
as Jim
as Will
as Woman
as Kevin
as Dart Guy
as Young Man
as Princess No. 2
as Link
as Young Woman
as Maureen
as Bar Guy
as Passenger
as Guy
as Female Passenger
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Critic Reviews for The Odd Couple: Season 1
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It's impossible to say how the show will progress from here, but it's hard to believe that it will ever feel anything other than remarkably familiar and derivative of better properties with better casts.
As it turns out, Perry is fine as Oscar, but the show is only intermittently funny.
The casting is more intriguing than the jokes are funny. It remains to be seen whether the remake succeeds on its own or is just a curiosity for devotes of the earlier adaptation.
I'm not quite hooked. And if others feel the same way and with the overabundance of TV options today, then that doesn't bode well for The Odd Couple.
I really, really wanted to like this pilot and the truth is, I didn't. But, that's not to say that I won't give the series a bit of a chance.
The problem? Maybe it's the speed with which all this unfolds, but too often in this first episode things feel awkward, as if the dialogue were written mostly to set up jokes, and therefore the character part of the story seems forced.
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