Ricky Gervais is particularly irritating as the voice of a robot dog, and the whole thing really is miserably unfunny.
Network television has really tried (and failed miserably -- Pan Am, Playboy Club) to recreate the magic that is basic cable's Mad Men by bringing the early '60s into primetime, but by the looks of this new Tuesday drama, it seems like CBS just might break the mold, and make a show that is completely watchable.
The ticket-taker's attempt at a joke -- "Boy, that is really getting annoying!" -- failed miserably.
But to reach this peace Arvay must admit, after years of pretense, that she is not really proud of her own miserably poor and uneducated family, that poverty and ignorance lend them neither moral superiority nor charm, and that she is, in fact, shamed and disgusted by them.
But the second album by every single band I've ever signed has flopped miserably, and no one really understands why.
In 2005, Bickers and her friends tried to start a dancer union -- "but that failed miserably, and I was really burnt out for a while," Bickers says.
When it's time to really defend our people, we've failed miserably in the recent past.
However, he always finds the humanity in people and his character is someone who is really trying to do his best, though failing miserably.
This material is so bleak, and so miserably entrancing, that all Mr. Parry really needs to do is set out the facts and, essentially, stay out of the way.
