Trust Me (1.1)

Monday, January 26, 2008 @ 10 PM
TNT
Trust Me - Season 1, Episode #1 - Pilot












http://www.tnt.tv/series/trustme/

Marmot: Much more engaging than the barely watchable Ocean's 11-lite Leverage, Trust Me doesn't seem to know what it's about. It's less a friendship drama set in the exciting world of advertising than it is a procedural for getting "the big account". It's somewhat ironic that the show about advertising seems to be based on advertiser's versions of the working world that are sold to us every year in Super Bowl commercials. It's yet another regurgitation of the Office Space formula, except not funny. However, the leads (Tom Cavanaugh and Eric McCormack) are very likeable, and I can't help that feel that the show would be much better if they were given more interesting things to say. Instead, the dialogue is mired in ad-world lingo that only serves to alienate the viewer. I don't know what the hierarchy is in an ad agency, I don't want to know. Just make me laugh.

Manatee: Trust Me did not keep my attention. I was more interested in my knitting project than this show. I was unable to separate Eric McCormack from his character on Will & Grace (Kind of annoying as you can imagine). When a competing cable station has the highly acclaimed television series, Mad Men, which revolves around ad agencies in the 60s, I'm not sure you should go up against it. TNT was probably hoping that while Mad Men was on break, their audience would tune into Trust Me. Skip it (coming from a Mad Men fan). I'd rather wait till Mad Men season 3 comes back to get my ad fill. Trust Me is not funny, the characters are rather obnoxious, and it does not look very good (looks low budget to me). I have no interest in tuning in for episode two unless someone promises me it gets a million times better.