...here’s the premise, familiar as it may seem: Dave (Zachary Knighton) is on the altar with his bride-to-be, Alex (Elisha Cuthbert), who then decides to run away. This stuns their friends, the inter-racial married couple Brad (Damon Wayans, Jr.) and Jane (Eliza Coupe); and their single friends Penny (Casey Wilson) who is desperate for a relationship and Max (Adam Pally), the smart-aleck gay friend who defies the sitcom stereotype of the super-obvious gay friend.
Cuthbert, best known for being unintentionally hilarious on 24, proves here that she can adequately step into the sitcom universe, though she’s not given much to work with. Knighton is ostensibly the comic of the bunch and gets to milk a lot of sappy stuff about being left at the altar (staying home drinking, etc.). But it ends up being Pally who gets the best lines here, such as they are. Wayans Jr. often serves as Pally’s straight man or sounding board for riffs on relationships, most of which you’ve heard before, except maybe the term “chicksand” instead of “quicksand,” a reference the writers seem to be in love with since they call it back so often.
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