Ken Marino
Casey Wilson
Sarah Wright Olsen
John Gemberling
Tymberlee Hill
Tim Meadows
Dan Bucatinsky

Created by:
David Caspe

2014-2015
Comedy, Romance
NBC
TV-NR

“Marry Me” features an emasculated man and an annoying woman who finally decide to get engaged. The first engagement attempt by the man is botched by the woman’s tirade regarding his inability to propose. She refuses to turn around to look at him during this tirade, so she doesn’t know that he’s down on one knee with a ring in his hand. During this tirade, she insults many of the people closest to them, including his mother. Those people are hiding from her as they wait for her to say yes. Needless to say, that doesn’t go well.

At the beginning of that opening scene, I thought that “Marry Me” was on to something: him on one knee with a ring, her unaware and complaining. But it lasts too long, which ruins the promise of that premise. Things stay off-track for the remainder of the pilot episode.

(By the way, she shows up at his place of work for a do-over. Yes, she proposes to him at work. He says yes, but is fired afterward because of the information she divulged about him missing work in front of his boss. Laughing yet?)

The problem with “Marry Me” is the material, and it’s not just the dialogue. I don’t like the main characters, at all. This isn’t funny or charming; it’s pathetic and annoying. The actors try, but what’s the point? … At least, there’s no laugh track.

Verdict: Whatever to Pretty Bad

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Six years ago, Annie (Casey Wilson, “Happy Endings”) and Jake (Ken Marino, “Eastbound & Down”) bonded over their mutual love of nachos, and they have been inseparable ever since.

Now, after returning from a romantic two-week island vacation, Jake’s all set to pop the question. Before he can ask, though, Annie lets loose on Jake for his inability to commit. She was expecting him to “put a ring on it” in paradise and now Jake’s perfect proposal is ruined. Not wanting to spend the next 60 years talking about that mess of a proposal, Jake and Annie decide to hold off on the engagement until they can do it right. Yet if history tells us anything, it’s when we really want things to go right that they tend to go wrong.

The only thing we know for sure is these two are destined to be together – whether they can get it together or not.

The cast also includes Sarah Wright Olsen (as Dennah), John Gemberling (as Gil), Tymberlee Hill (as Kay), Tim Meadows (as Kevin 1) and Dan Bucatinsky (as Kevin 2).