Took one for the team.

I was selected to watch a program that may or may not hit the air in the future.  I was a test audience person subject or whatever.

I kind of felt excited when they chose me, I thought: how cool is this?  It might be an awesome show and I'll have been the -first- to have seen it!

Fucking, no fucking such fucking luck.

I fit an important demographic.  18-34 year old males.  I think perhaps my opinion might be an 'outlier' in this study, but lets keep our fingers crossed it's not!

I don't know how much I can really divulge, like it being family centric with currently overused and stereotyped characters.  Idiot husband, gorgeous wife, sarcy teen, brainy tween, silly best friend, and a few wall flower characters that seem to stand out better than the rest (who ought to have a show built around them).  I admit I didn't hate the characters and the actors were relatively unknown (aside from 2) but they played their roles well; however, I didn't laugh as much as anyone intended but I did laugh... Mainly at the few minor characters who had the best lines.

I know the formula is tried and true.  I know anyone who watches and laughs as this carbon copied crap will -adore- it but I wouldn't miss paint drying if I had to choose what to do during the time slot.  I'm a hard sell with sitcoms sometimes but especially with cliche crap like this. There is still genuine originality out there, just waiting to be discovered.