Boyd Pritchett (Anthony Clark) drives his little sister Wyleen (Hedy Burress) from their rural Virginia home to big city Boston where she starts school at Randolph Harrington College. Boyd falls for graduate student Joy Byrnes (Traylor Howard) and takes the repairman job at the Student Union. Tasha King (Tasha Smith) is his new sassy black co-worker. Joy is actually going out with pompous Prof. Jack Reed (Vincent Ventresca). To Wyleen's dismay, Boyd stays in her apartment. Leonard Prince (Steve Paymer) is their sad-sack 18th century footwear archivist neighbor.The writing team of Max Mutchnick and David Kohan are the co-creators. The first season was a late-season shorten replacement and it did relatively well. It sets up a functional group of characters. The central love triangle starts off a little rocky but after a few episodes, Joy's flirtations with Boyd help. They end up in the friends zone in the second season anyways. The second season stagnates as the characters are unable to expand their connections. The show has some sitcom fun but isn't anything long lasting. It probably needs one or two extra characters for romantic possibilities. The addition of Roger Rees is good but Ventresca is essentially diminished by him.

Boston Common was a hilarious show. How could NBC be dumb enough to cancel it? The answer they give us is bad ratings, but they wouldn't have been so bad if it wasn't moved to such bad time slots. Anthony Clark is the best on the series, being the funniest of all, with Hedy Burress close behind. Thankfully, USA reruns this short lived show. Thank you USA network!

I still can't believe why would they take this good show off-air. This is one of the funniest shows on TV. The wild, wacky, and funny cast of Randolph Harrington delivers such great performances and gave "humor" a new meaning. Boyd, Wyleen, Tasha, Joy and the rest of the cast are really funny, and are such talented comedians. I would still laugh every time I watch this show.Thanks to USA network, I'd still reward myself a few laughs..

Boston Common ranks right up there with the best sitcoms I've seen. Anthony Clark does a superb job as Boyd, and the chemistry between him and Hedy Burress playing his sister Wyleen is awesome. The rest of the cast (with the possible exception of Vincent Ventresca as Jack Reed, who comes across as pretentious) rounds out everything very well. Highly recommended!