Not to mention, Curtis and Dickens are the most generic actors possible, on top of which they made NO interesting acting choices. NONE. I really wanted to like the pilot but the only thing either of them did that was remotely interesting as actors was probably in the script, where Dickens falls asleep with her son on…

Please. She's the only attractive female thus far. I'll need to see a replacement beauty before I can agree.

What I thought, too. He's the most featured actor in ep one, and THIS was the best a major production could do?

They had an hour to get ANY of it right, and failed.

Or, just have interesting, intelligent, conflicted people in a huge city where society breaks down over a period of several weeks, and focus on the high points.

"Thats your opinion."

It's not that I needed "a bunch of zombie attacks", it's that I wanted something INTERESTING.

…slowly introducing the characters—none particularly interesting just yet…

The metaphor is looser and more mythic: Jay and her friends are haunted
by the slipping away of their carefree adolescence, day by uneventful
day.

Unwatchable. He's crude and stupid. She looks fifteen years older than he does. The dialogue is lowbrow and charmless.

I also think Sheldon is sort of abusive to Amy, …

Manny has constantly failed to get the girls he was attracted to. Do you actually watch the show?

The salaries for this cast, though, might prohibit that.

High
-Manny is not perving over the beautiful Beth.

Really? After the idiotic Blackhawks joke earlier in the season this seemed mild.

He was also in a strangle little series that ran for something like 35 episodes, called Hack. Not bad, though Morse was limited by flat scripts.

Vaughan was miscast. When he can't play cocky charm he's got nothing, and it was clear in this ep that he's desperate not to come across as "Vince Vaughan, one-dimensional actor."

Yes, we should never show dangerous behavior on any teevee show. Some idiot might take it seriously.

He's 16, you lousy fruit.

Yeah. Men never feel that way.