#GROUND FLOOR TV PILOT SERIES#
That said, it’s too bad the series doesn’t have a little bit more courage, or the creative ambition to deliver genuine satiric bite. By those modest criteria, “Ground Floor” could stay in business for a while, based on the four episodes previewed.
TBS has been judicious with its original sitcom development, seeking to develop shows that mesh with its off-network acquisitions. the sleep-at-work shiftlessness of those who literally and figuratively work beneath them.Īlways a scene-stealer, McGinley’s Mansfield gets all the best lines, casually talking about being “crazy rich” and blithely telling his staff, “Like in any family, if you underperform, you get fired.” More pointedly, he warns Brody his career will ultimately destroy his relationship with Jennifer. But the writers settle for being mildly smutty about all the hot sex the two are having, and push obvious gags about the dog-eat-dog nature of life in the corporate suites vs. In this age of growing income disparity and hostility toward one-percenters, “Ground Floor” (which is being made available a week early via TBS’ website) seems like a timely premise, positing whether two people attracted to each other can conquer the socioeconomic rift between them. Once Brody and Jennifer decide to keep seeing each other, though, the upstairs/downstairs (or more accurately, penthouse/basement) relationship echoes through their respective spheres, irritating her crony, Harvard (Rory Scovel), an anti-establishment type with a not-so-secret crush on Jennifer, who wonders what she sees in “a tool” like Brody and prompting snarky asides from his shallow colleague Mike (Rene Gube), who has substituted career striving for romantic pursuits.
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