After six years of being a couple, Annie and Jake decide to get married: “Marry Me” is the story of that bumpy road. Without spoiling too much, I will say this: if getting up to that point was so hard, I can only imagine what else is in store. The pilot is ultimately the story of the couple’s engagement, but it takes a full episode’s worth of attempts for it to finally work out. It’s not that the main characters don’t love each other, they do (this is not one of those “why are they together in the first place?” stories), but “Marry Me” is much more about funny, quirky gags than plot.
That’s not to say it couldn’t get better. Casey Wilson (“SNL,” “Happy Endings”) and Ken Marino (“Party Down,” “Burning Love”) have always been standouts in their previous ensemble shows. The thing about “Marry Me,” though, is that it resorts to such basic stereotypes for its characters that it kind of makes you want to cringe. In an attempt to make the characters human, the writers just made them unlikable. And by “them,” I mean Annie. Yeah, it’s cute and relatable that she can’t do yoga, but being tone–deaf to every situation she’s put in is pretty un–cute. Annie is on the edge of devolving into another female character with the “annoying, but supposedly charming” personality type. “Marry Me” writers—wherever you are—please don’t let that happen.
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