Review: Everyone Gets Divorced, Ep. 1
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 19, 2014
After being somewhat slightly disappointed in SPACE SHUTTLE, I was hesitant to dive into another Realm and Sand sitcom pilot, afraid it would just be more of the same.  Luckily, it was not.  EVERYONE GETS DIVORCED, Ep. 1 was actually funny--of the laugh out loud variety a few times, even--and the story was intriguing.EVERYONE GETS DIVORCED is the story of the dissolution of the marriage of Archer and Hannah.  When we meet Archer, he’s telling the story of how he got divorced, but that’s just preamble and the bulk of episode 1 tells the story of Archer and Hannah’s engagement, which should have been a simple thing, but when his friends Alex and Andrea decide to plan a scavenger hunt for the couple, without giving Archer himself any of the details, things go horribly wrong in typical sitcom fashion.  In this case, typical sitcom fashion works.Archer is a great character, well-developed, if not necessarily likable, but only because his total ineptness at dealing with life in general makes him come across as either incredibly lazy or downright simple.  Either way, while he’s a hero worth rooting for, he’s not the kind of guy you want in your immediate circle of friends.The writing in this episode flows well and the majority of the humor feels very natural, as opposed to SPACE SHUTTLE, which felt like it kept force feeding the laughs.  The cast is easy to identify with and, acting as an anti-HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, I could see this series being a hit on TV--as long as it was cast right and didn’t eventually get too dumb for its own good.  The humor in this first episode is situational, which is what the sitcom formula is all about, but I can also see a danger here of things going from plausible but dumb to just dumb if not handled carefully.Overall I enjoyed EVERYONE GETS DIVORCED a lot and am curious to see how the rest of this series plays out.