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I was looking at some clips and I am not holding out hope. It looks like boring, inoffensive, vanilla Chuck Lorre type crap. Maybe they only released the really lame bits. “Night Court” redux should be an HBO or Showtime show, if they want to recapture the essence of the original. It looks more like Two and A Half Men, than an “Always Sunny in Philadelphia” or “Shameless” type of unapologetic humour.
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I found it really bland with a lot of forced humor that really didn't get much of a laugh for me. Don't get me wrong, John Larroquette is brilliant. He's the king of dead pan humor, and plays a somewhat sad and tortured version of Dan Fielding from the original.
The rest of the cast just isn't that good. Melissa Raunch who was strong in the Big Bang series, doesn't stretch much in her role as Harry Stone's daughter. In fact her character comes across as annoying, over optimistic and just one note in this. She's over shadowed by the lady who plays the Prosecutor who is suppossed to be brazen and aggressive and a female version of Dan Fielding I guess. But comes across as hammy and just kind of there.
The baliff is just an awful actress in this role and is just there as the one with the throw away jokes. She's far from Richard Molls awesome deadpan Bull.
It was nice that they really referred to Harry Stone in a nice and at times touching way. But there's not enough to make this show a regular watch for me, its too safe, too typical and the cast is in my mind weak.