New York Strip Clubs: ‘Marriage Ref’ has too few funny riffs
After endless promotion of the series, NBC aired a half-hour episode of “The Marriage Ref’’ on Sunday after the Olympics. It was an underwhelming, contrived product that didn’t bode well for the hourlong version of the series, which takes its regular time slot in one of the most critical spots in NBC’s week, Thursday night at 10 on Channel 7. Obviously marriage is a fantastic opportunity for a button-pushing reality show, one that could pick apart relationship conflicts and offer drama and comedy. But “The Marriage Ref’’ is just a forced way to get a panel of famous people – the first guests were Alec Baldwin, Kelly Ripa, and Seinfeld – to spit out one-liners about cartoonish couples who are fighting over, say, whether to put a stripper pole in their bedroom.
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