TV Review: Notes from the Underbelly - Page 2

The entire concept for the show (base on Risa Green’s novel of the same name) is actually a good one: let’s follow a couple from the point where they decide to have a child through pregnancy and everything that follows. The problem is that the concept stopped growing at that point. The development of the show was completely arrested once the creator, Stacey Traub, and the rest of the producers got that far into it. Yet, it’s a midseason replacement, so clearly there ought to have been time to consider what was being put in front of the camera. But, no, someone seems to have yanked this half-formed idea out of the mind of its creator and thrown it up onto the screen in order to see whether it could thrive on its own. I can’t imagine that the show can possibly have an extended life, it doesn’t seem as though during it’s development cycle enough time or care was put into bringing forth a healthy, viable entity. 

For a while, ABC had intended to double-run episodes of Notes from the Underbelly at 10pm, out of Grey’s Anatomy. Rather than pursuing this idea, burning off all the new episodes in doubletime, and putting us all out of our misery quickly, they will, after last night’s double-run, move the show to Wednesdays at 8:30pm, airing out of According to Jim. I would recommend not following it to that time period, but everyone gets to make their own decisions in this world.

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