I've watched every episode, and absolutely love it. I think it's a perfect addition to the Thursday night comedy lineup on NBC, and I've laughed heartily at every episode. I look forward to it every week and certainly hope it gets renewed. I am genuinely confused by the middling reviews this show has gotten, and I'm especially perplexed by the hate directed toward Josh Gad, who not only creates the show but acts as its heart and soul as the well intentioned idiot Skip Gilchrist.Bill Pullman and Jenna Elfman are perfect together both as the president and first lady but also when the show features their private life as a regular old husband and wife (albeit with a little more power than average).A lot of the show's strength comes from the love triangle between Martha McIssac (Becca) the very talented Andre Holland (Marshall) and the surprisingly likable Robbie Amell (D.B.). These three have great chemistry and comedic timing together.Give the show a shot. It doesn't look like it'll be back for round 2, which is a shame, but these 13 episodes have been a blast.

This was just terrible. I'm not just talking about the pilot. I'm talking about ALL the episodes that have aired.It is almost as if someone wanted to create a very unfunny show to make people cringe. Well good job. You did it.I wanted to like this. I really did. The characters are undeveloped. The kids are annoying (don't know why they even have the Marigold character) and the writing it the worst I have ever seen.I normally like Pullman and Gad, but the material they are working with does not allow them to be nearly as funny as they should be.Cancel.

I actually like the way that the show is coming together, but this Skip character is SO distracting and off-balance with all of the other, very very good actors (including the great Rene Auberjonois), that it makes many moments of the show frankly unwatchable. The writers really need to make the Skip character more of an occasional visitor - send him to boarding school. And don't make the baby daddy a total idiot like Skip. He's good as his own brand of not-so- smart but lovable. If NBC allows this to stay on for a while, then I think it will grow a nice audience. We need another really smart comedy to replace the departing 30 Rock and to accompany the ailing Community. Or perhaps we can just get NBC finally to support production on Community once and for all instead of continuing to dangle it over a cliff.

To me this show is not only not humorless, but is a patronizing attempt to appeal to a TV audience assumed to have zero sense of humor, sophistication or patriotism. It is the antithesis of actually funny, romantic and smart efforts like Aaron Sorkin's the film An American President and the TV series The West Wing. Obviously someone at NBC didn't get the memo that Sorkin is the standard bearer for the White House TV genre. As for the acting, not a single character is anything more than a cliché. I guess that's the writers' intent, to have every character be a caricature. But the downside is that not a single character seems human. Why not then just Photoshop the cast and forget about human actors to fit into the contrived, emotionless script?