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Worst Week: The Complete Series

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This show was an example of, from week to week, a show that would make me cry from laughing so hard. One of those shows that you would snort, and laugh because it made you snort. Even when you absolutely knew what was coming next, to see it happen was hilarious. But then, the season ended, new season began and it was nowhere to be found on television. Whoever made the decision to cancel this show, whether it was up against a bigger hit (I don't even know what was on other channels in the same time slot), or what, ought NOT to be working in TV programming. I will have to get by watching this one season, over and over. It's that good, but I sure would have liked to have more than one season to enjoy.

I didn't expect anything from this series - nothing at all, really, I was just bored, and it was available - but what I found was one of my favorite shows ever, right up there with Wonderfalls, Pushing Daisies, Coupling (UK, natch). And, you know, within shooting distance of Arrested Development (a far shooting distance, granted, but come on...) But of course it is nothing like them (but it is of course similar to the original UK series). What this is is funny, pure and simple, and, better yet, it's good-natured, with a warm heart, big laughs, and an almost innocent quality, even as it invokes shades of There's Something About Mary, and movies of that ilk.

This is the essential quality of this show: there's no-one you can't like. Only one that's even really iffy on that subject, if that. And it's about time stories are written about love and good intentions (without overdoing it). It's the easiest thing in the world to sit there and think how you're going to cause trouble for your hero, only to say, oh, the mean father, the cruel boss, the nosy neighbor. Not here. And that's where this show has its brains, by never taking the easy way out.

I don't want to invest this show with too many saintly qualities - it's just a sitcom, after all - but it doesn't feel forced, it makes you smile, it's compulsively entertaining. And it's about the most common condition, the one all its viewers share: we're all only human, right? This is a show about "nothing", but the nothing that means everything to the people involved in it. Not because they're snide, or bitter, or sarcastic. But because their hearts are in the right place.

And yet not sappy! That's an achievement right there. How many good-natured sitcoms can really say that? And what this one has going for it, it has going for it in spades.

An important note: This show lasted just the one season. But don't let that dissuade you - no, in fact, it sort of feels like that's the perfect length. So just soak it in, and know that while it doesn't end with an air of finality (they could have easily segued into a second season), it still does end, appropriately. No cliff-hangers. Just smiles, and maybe even a willingness to dive right back in from the beginning.

I wasn't expecting much from this show - caught it once waiting for another. It was hilarious. I actually laughed out loud - which I have never done with a T.V. show before. I got several other friends hooked. I can't wait to get the show on DVD so that I can watch it start to finish, in order. Much, much better than expected.

Last season's Worst Week was an instant favorite in our house. We watched the entire season and each week we looked forward to the new episode. This turned out to be a real sleeper and a real winner. We hope to see a new season in the future.

No comedy has ever made me laugh so hard...type of humor that catches you off guard when trying to determine what will happen next. Absolutely NUTS and is a must see.

The English version, titled "The Worst Week of My Life" was very funny, indeed, but this American remake is absolutely hilarious. Kyle Bornheimer carries off the role of the hapless fiance with superb comic timing and the rest of the cast, some of whom you'll recognize from previous work in sitcoms, is uniformly excellent, as is the writing. And, perhaps best of all, the series tells the story of an American couple's week before the wedding...and then ends, unlike many American series which go on and on, long after we've lost interest.

If you're a fan of the original British sitcom "The Worst Week of my Life", you're sure to love this one-season series. It's a mix between "Meet the Parents" and Murphy's Law. Whatever can go wrong, does. One of the best short series I've seen!

Some series stay on way past their "expiration date." Here is a series that could have gone on for a few good, strong, hilarious seasons. I don't know why the series stopped so soon after it's conception. I don't have any info on the series at all. When it played, where it played and why it ended. I had never even heard of it until running across it listed on Amazon. A little pricey, but worth every penny. I loved every minute of every epidsode.

Go ahead. Treat yourself to some good old fashioned laughter and invite your friends.

Check this show out you won't regret it, very funny. Erinn Hayes who plays the female lead is great in it.

I recently saw "You Again" at the box office and was reintroduced to Kyle Bornheimer, who played a small supporting part in the feature. It made me think about his series "My Worst Week" which aired on CBS until being cut from the airwaves.
"My Worst Week" is possibly one of the funniest sitcoms I have ever watched. Sam Briggs (Kyle Bornheimer), is the hapless hero of this hilarious show, who is able to bumble eveything he comes into contact with. He does so in such a naive and special way that you can't help but feel sorry for him as he goes from one embarrassing situation to another without a moment in between. Sometimes his malady is contagious and affects all the people around him.
Mr. Bornheimer's timing is impeccable as he interacts with his girlfiend/wife, Melanie Clayton (Erinn Hayes,) and his ultra conservative in-laws Dick and Angela Clayton (Kurtwood Smith and Nancy Lenehan.)
This DVD contains all sixteen segments that were aired including the pilot and gave my girlfriend and I several hours of side-splitting laughter. Once you see the pilot you will be hooked. Best advice: watch the episodes in sequence.