| I had the movie on in my hotel on my visit to NYC last week, and I was struck by how creepy the entire premise is: the woman's ex-husband is basically living in her house and taking care of her kids based on false pretenses. Yes, I get it - their divorce is not acrimonious, he is crazy about his kids, it's all well-intentioned, he's charming and has a good heart, Pierce Brosnan is secretly the real jerk. But still. The deception, played for laughs, really struck me this time around as creepy. YMMV, but how a show engineers around that without the charm of Robin Williams and Sally Field, and the seductions of high-net-worth San Francisco.....I am not sure. |
