When I was a little girl, I watched a show called Mork & Mindy and developed a crush on an actor named Robin Williams. Now I am grown woman and that love is still there. So when I heard he was coming back to TV on weekly basis in a show called
The Crazy Ones, I went crazy for the idea. Then I watched the pilot as soon as I got it and I have watched it more times than I count since then.
I am so happy that tonight at 9p on CBS, you will get to see this show that I can’t stop watching over and over and over again. Not only because Robin Williams is in it and because it was created by the brilliant David E Kelly, but because it is a feel good show that everyone can enjoy and fall in love with it. It is what Robin Williams is, that lovable guy who just makes you smile when you see him and/or think about him.
On tonight’s season premiere the top advertising agency, Roberts & Roberts, is fighting to keep their account with McDonald’s and all the fast food chain wants to do is fire them. So the unorthodox and charming Simon (Williams) reminds them of that warm feeling people got with the You Deserve a Break Today campaign and tells them they should modernize for today’s consumer. Well that feeling when you hear the music that was in that real ad and the smile the images brought to your face when you saw them, well that is the emotion you will get when you watch this show.
Or maybe it is just the way that Williams plays Simon. Now Simon runs the agency, but he is not the only person who works there or on the show. Simon’s daughter, Sydney (Sarah Michelle Gellar) is the creative director and she’s much different than her dad. She is much more serious and by the book. She is the Yin to her father’s Yang and it because of that the company is still around. And it is their relationship that will keep you turning into this show.
Then there is Zach Cooper (James Wolk) who is a young Simon, he is suave, charming and a lady killer. It is for all of those reasons that Simon has made him his right hand man and when they are together you know that there is going to be trouble. And sometimes trouble can be a good thing.
Lauren (Amanda Setton) is the assistant and she has fallen under Simon and Zach’s spell and Sydney tries to keep grounded. It is also her naïvety that reminds Simon who he was and who he is.
So today they will all get together and try to save McDonald’s and somehow Kelly Clarkson becomes the meat in their Big Mac. So be prepared to see a different side of her tonight. A side, I personally love and hope she considers taking on.
So as McDonalds once said “You deserve a break today”, so why not get it with The Crazy Ones tonight and every Thursday 9p on CBS.
The best way for me to sum up this show is that back when I was a senior in high school, I had to decide whether to major in advertising or journalism. So I watched a movie called called Crazy People, and I majored in Advertising. Then when I graduated, I went into journalism and never looked back. That is until I watched the pilot for The Crazy Ones and now I am suddenly unsure if I made the right choice to not go into advertising.
