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[Bill Lawrence] scores again here, with an instantly appealing ensemble, from Astin's "soulless upstairs tool" to Rory Scovel as the downstairs dude from "a very competitive community college.
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It's a simple idea, and the supporting characters on both floors are fairly broad and familiar types, but the execution is good.
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We like the people and the jokes are funny. We know there’s something vulnerable and even poignant behind that barrage of one-liners.
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While Ground Floor achieves its deliberately modest aims, it also leaves the viewer wondering if something more might have been accomplished with that premise, particularly with the enjoyable Heelan in the female lead.
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When the jokes are hit and miss, McGinley and Scovel can easily salvage them. While the chemistry between Astin and Heelan isn't really palpable, both characters grow on you after a couple of episodes and everybody else in the cast also manages to elevate the material whenever it falters.
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It's the best original comedy TBS has yet produced--which may not be saying much, but given the mostly lousy track record among broadcast sitcoms this fall, it's hardly bargain basement.
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McGinley is delightfully obnoxious, and the young lovers are quite sweet, but it's the undercurrent of resentment flowing in two directions that raises Ground Floor, if not to TV comedy's penthouse, at least to its second floor.
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Ground Floor doesn’t make much of an impression initially. But stick with it for three or four episodes and it grows on you.
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There is a professional efficiency to much of the comedy. (It is funny sometimes.)
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[Ground Floor] yields an occasional chuckle; it’s just more of a slacker than an overachiever.
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One thing that might improve this office comedy is a few pink slips--upstairs, downstairs and off-camera.
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Most of the young, relatively untested actors in Ground Floor are not nearly as talented at creating endearing characters; in the first two episodes the characters are mostly just ciphers.
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The new worst show of the fall season.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 25 out of 32
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Mixed: 5 out of 32
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Negative: 2 out of 32
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Jan 3, 2014
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Dec 5, 2013
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Nov 15, 2013