CBS executives seem enchanted with Downey. Oh, how they love their little Roma. But viewers, according to the ratings, are growing a little less enchanted each year. The most recent episode, on Sunday, lured 11.4 million viewers. And they're right.
Hideous misery is just what it is.
On the other hand, you can easily guess what's going to happen to Maggie and George. Cuteness saturates nearly every frame of the film. At the 20th-anniversary party, we all get to watch a cute little animated film, put together to mark the occasion by the couple's son and daughter. At the airport, Maggie and George are the only couple standing in line for the flight to Manzanilla who are not kissing and hugging their brains out. Once on the island, George and Maggie keep bumping into a pair of blond bozos who just can't keep their hands off each other and love a good giggle almost as much as a slobbery smooch.