Let´s be honest: this show as only to use the success that Friends once had. Although I used to be fond of the first seasons of the latest, it had lost a lot of its energy. Yet, out of curiosity, I decided to watch Joey. If the first season was rather funny as it was bringing new characters, season 2 is of no interest whatsoever: the jokes are predictable and easy, the characters are becoming superficial, and the scripts very light. I believe the show got cancelled shortly after I decided not to waste further of my time on this.

The first few episodes are good, some fun characters are introduced, Joey's getting chicks, we clap and cheer - 'cause it's Joey being Joey.Immediately after all the introductory episodes Joey starts sucking at everything and being pathetic. Like they couldn't wait to cheesy it up by making it about generic 'love interests' instead of the fun and careless life of a womanizer.Gee wiz, I wonder who they're gonna mush him in with, in order to keep the precious post-menopause female demographic watching because 'they just have to have a love story', I mean there's only two women in the main cast - his sister and his (prepare for originality) neighbor. Imagine my 'shock' when the second part of this derailing ship was all about Joey not being able to have his female neighbor. Who's not good-looking by the way, and we get to see her in every failed Matthew Perry and Matt LeBlanc show for some reason. In fact, most women in this show weren't good looking, yet were introduced as such. And of course - we gotta have some sexism (against men) by doing the cliché 'oh he's not good enough for her, let's keep the male characters down but she's so great and fantastic for no reason, let's praise her'. Just the good old 'men are not worthy and women are great' cuck pandering you can see in every show from That 80's Show trough Friends and onwards.Anyways. That character we like who can have any girl for some magic reason can't have his female love interest. Yeah. That's totally not due to generic unoriginal writing.Even Friends was terrible but at least the character Joey was fun in it. He made you feel good, he made you laugh, no burdens and useless love affairs (or at least not too many).But here, I don't know what happened, the writers were clearly terrible and trying to imitate the stupid Friends 'Ross and Rachel' thing. It just sucked. Joey was a completely different characters. Do those dopes not understand anything about writing a show and having original characters?Good casting, good actors, terrible writing.That's the show 'Joey' for ya. Over a decade later, those idiots whom some humorously call 'professional screenwriters' still do the exact same mistakes. Viva la Hollywood.

I adore these writers/producers who try to give the "Friends" an individual show only about each of them, because they are kind of keeping the "Friends" with us. But the thing they forget is that, even though each of them is adorable, they were so freaking amazing TOGETHER! 'Mr Sunshine' and 'Go On' were cancelled very quick even though Matthew Perry is sweet and funny. Same thing happened with "Joey" because these friends are not the same when they are by themselves. At least Courteney Cox has a little bit more success in 'Cougar Town' ! I can't say the show was bad, it just wasn't... amazing. I kind of liked it, but it was probably because I miss "Friends" so much!

The history of the TV spin-off has been a curious one. For every successful spin-off you get an utter failure. For example, "All in the family" gave birth to "The Jeffersons" but also spawned the disastrous "Gloria". "Cheers" spun off "Frasier" but "M*A*S*H" vomited out "After M*A*S*H". Usually the reason for the spin-off's demise is that the few characters, or single character, transplanted is unable to sustain the formula that made the original show work. When Kelsey Grammar took his Frasier character to his own show, it worked because his character was strong enough to become the center and not depend on others for support. "Joey" was doomed because "Friends" was a total ensemble show that depended on the six actors playing off one another. Taking one character out to fend for himself utterly doomed this show's chances. I think the producers and ex specially Matt LeBlanc were completely unwilling to take a hard look at what they were trying to accomplish.