Season 1
Working the Engels
Though watching Andrea Martin is enjoyable, Working the Engels wastes her talent with groan-worthy gags and lackadaisical writing.
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A family are forced to band together to keep their heads above water when their father and breadwinner passes away, leaving them all in a mountain of debt.
Jimmy is eager to help Jenna out after she takes her first case as head of the family law firm. Unfortunately, he creates more of a problem by sleeping with their opponent. Meanwhile, Sandy stages a symbolic funeral for the "Old Ceil."
'Jennas Friend'Jenna's Friend: When Jimmy gives their grandmother's ring to a stripper, Jenna is forced to intervene to get it back and makes an unlikely friend in the process.
Jenna is asked by a former client to handle an important merger on his behalf, but has difficulty completing the task thanks to Ceil. Meanwhile, Jimmy tries to keep Sandy calm after she's served with divorce papers.
'Meet Irene Horowitz'Meet Irene Horowitz: Jenna is offered a posh, new client. Ceil and Sandy start a dessert company.
Ceil gives online dating a whirl; Jenna deals with self-doubt after delivering a motivational talk to students at her old high school.
Ceil is desperate for an image makeover after learning from her next-door nemesis that the Engels are known as the "crazy family" in the neighborhood. Meanwhile, Jenna wants to save a roti restaurant from closure, but is at a loss as to how to do it.
Jenna takes a case for a camp counselor whom she admires without knowing that she's totally wacky. Meanwhile, Sandy is in a rush to work the last steps of AA and earn her one-year sober chip.
Sandy and Ceil crash Jenna's book club and convince the members to read a steamy erotic novel that they secretly wrote; and Jenna represents a coffeehouse owner in a dispute against his former business partner, who also happens to be his ex-girlfriend.
Part 1 of 2. Jenna helps neighborhood café owner Jonny defend himself against a lawsuit filed by a big corporate coffee merchant, who happens to be represented by Jenna's old boss Charisse. Meanwhile, Ceil's mysterious past is uncovered by her children.
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Network:GLOBAL
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Premiere Date:Apr 30, 2014
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Episodes
A family are forced to band together to keep their heads above water when their father and breadwinner passes away, leaving them all in a mountain of debt.
Jimmy is eager to help Jenna out after she takes her first case as head of the family law firm. Unfortunately, he creates more of a problem by sleeping with their opponent. Meanwhile, Sandy stages a symbolic funeral for the "Old Ceil."
'Jennas Friend'Jenna's Friend: When Jimmy gives their grandmother's ring to a stripper, Jenna is forced to intervene to get it back and makes an unlikely friend in the process.
Jenna is asked by a former client to handle an important merger on his behalf, but has difficulty completing the task thanks to Ceil. Meanwhile, Jimmy tries to keep Sandy calm after she's served with divorce papers.
'Meet Irene Horowitz'Meet Irene Horowitz: Jenna is offered a posh, new client. Ceil and Sandy start a dessert company.
Ceil gives online dating a whirl; Jenna deals with self-doubt after delivering a motivational talk to students at her old high school.
Ceil is desperate for an image makeover after learning from her next-door nemesis that the Engels are known as the "crazy family" in the neighborhood. Meanwhile, Jenna wants to save a roti restaurant from closure, but is at a loss as to how to do it.
Jenna takes a case for a camp counselor whom she admires without knowing that she's totally wacky. Meanwhile, Sandy is in a rush to work the last steps of AA and earn her one-year sober chip.
Sandy and Ceil crash Jenna's book club and convince the members to read a steamy erotic novel that they secretly wrote; and Jenna represents a coffeehouse owner in a dispute against his former business partner, who also happens to be his ex-girlfriend.
Part 1 of 2. Jenna helps neighborhood café owner Jonny defend himself against a lawsuit filed by a big corporate coffee merchant, who happens to be represented by Jenna's old boss Charisse. Meanwhile, Ceil's mysterious past is uncovered by her children.
Critic Reviews for Working the Engels Season 1
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It's a real pleasure to see [Andrea Martin] back on the small screen in Working the Engels, a less-than-ambitious sitcom that shines every time she makes an appearance.
If you like watching Martin go way, way over the top - and, in all honesty, I do - then you might find something here to enjoy.
Just watch these able actors work. They are the show.
The situation and characters are uninspired and generic, and the execution is half-hearted. It will inspire no more laughter in viewers' homes than it did in the writers' room and on the set.
It brims with energy, gives Martin something reasonably gainful to do, marks Rohl as a promising, appealing comedic actress and has enough decent gags to make a case for itself.
Though the series may have some passing connection to Arrested Development in terms of setup, it isn't able to capture the depth or tone or charm that elevates a comedy out of just being mediocre to being something really great.
Watching Levy and Martin rekindle the spark of their SCTV days is especially a treat, a feisty back-and-forth that harkens back to a time when viewers had to wait until after the 10 o'clock news news to find out if Canadians could be funny.
After Arrested Development, the wild and crazy antics of the rest of the Engel family are incredibly uninspired and unfunny.
All the actors on the show are appealing and have good comic timing; the problem is, they're called upon to act like frantic sitcom characters, spitting out weak jokes at a machine-gun pace, rather than real people. What a pity.
Working the Engels... treats both viewers and its characters like braying morons.
Nothing about Engels works: the tired premise, the strained performances, the empty abyss of silence into which the groaning jokes dissipate.
The show never allows itself to stand down from ill-fated, continuous attempts at heightened hilarity.
Audience Reviews for Working the Engels: Season 1
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Feb 07, 2016Love this show. If you like breaking Shameless things that have a wry crazy off the wall sense of humor with great writing then watch this. We loved it. If your a prude you won't.
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Jul 20, 2014Working the Engels generates some chuckles throughout, but does not have a good enough plot to draw in any viewers.
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