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Kevins Can Score Improbably Attractive TV Wives
A new AMC+ satire mocks the family sitcom cliché of schlubby husbands paired with beautiful wives. Here are a few of the more egregious examples.
Kevin James and Leah Remini in “King of Queens.” In one episode, James’s character plots to keep his wife thin.Credit.CBS
June 9, 2021Updated 11:08 a.m. ET
In 1998, during the second episode of the CBS sitcom “The King of Queens,” the husband, Doug (Kevin James), learns that the women in his wife’s family put on weight as they age. So even though Doug is fat “I look like I’m in my twelfth trimester,” he says he plots to keep Carrie (Leah Remini, a knockout then and now) slim.
Last August, when
Ted Lasso, Jason Sudeikis’ sitcom about an amateur American football coach who lands a job managing an English soccer team, dropped on Apple TV+, there was little fanfare. It was entertaining with an extremely likeable lead, and it stood out as one of the most watchable, if not earth-shatteringly brilliant, shows on the nascent streaming service (not that it has much competition from
See and
Home Before Dark). At its core it’s a workplace comedy, in which the relentlessly positive Lasso, an underdog both culturally and professionally as an American in the Premier League, slowly brings everyone around him to his cheery way of thinking. It not so much treads but bounds flagrantly back and forth across the line between heartwarming and corny. As with much of the content on Apple TV+, it seemed like no one was watching it.