Why this show got canceled. Some reasonable points:1. DATED: I mean who were these people? They seemed to be stuck in a time warp of old jokes and situations. The kind where its okay to make lame jokes about female drivers.2. EVERYBODY LOOKED OLD/ CAST: Maybe if the series was made 5 years ago. I mean we have seen all of the cast members in some role or the other. They are known faces, but were never in direct lime light. This is not to say that each of them wasn't a gifted actor. Indeed they were but somehow never exploited to there full potential.3. BEEN THERE DONE THAT: the kind of female inner monologue narrative had already been used to its full potential in mega hits like sex and the city. The leading lady, talented as she was could garner no audience support for her age old problems that the viewer has already seen a million times.4. HUMOR: In the end the whole thing was hammy and trite. You may say that I am being too harsh but I really am not. Imagine this show releasing at the same time as 'How I met your Mother' (and that started in 2005!!!!). The stronger show survived and the weaker one got canceled.All in all, it is at best some good background television while you stream better stuff from the internet. The background music is sincere and jazzy, just like in Seinfeld or Sex and the city. I will give it a 4 for decent acting, time tested but still clean camera-work and the over all success in making someone stop for a second and pay it attention because all the above stated facts ultimately help it in creating a false sense of expectation. If you expect, you pay attention which is more then anyone can ask for. Regardless, a viewer watching it in 2012 has nothing to gain from it.

I enjoy this show. I think the writing is witty and humorous and the characters are easy to relate to. I think its nice seeing PJ being the only girl on the show, the show is aiming for "shes always just one of the boys". I think some of it is realistic. The don't all live in high class apartments or eat only at the nicest restaurants. They have their bar, their hangout. And its not as cheesy as a coffee house like Friends (a show I DO love, I just think the coffee house is a little over the top). A bar is common for friends who hang out in the city, is it not? I think all the guys act like normal guys and PJ just plays along. Its a fun show to watch, of course not 100% realistic (then again, what sitcom is?), but some of it is. Why do so many people bash on it so much? Its just a sitcom, a fun to watch when its on kind of sitcom.Oh and the fact that they live in Chicago is awesome, I live in the suburbs of Chicago so I can relate a tiny bit. And the fact that they are cubs fans is a MAJOR plus. I'm die hard...

Recently during a homebound injury day and a vomiting amount of NOTHING to watch on TV, I came across the First season of My Boys on TBS' On Demand section, and the boring day was flushed away.I'm bummed I never tuned in before on a weekly basis, because this show is EXCELLENT! I probably never watched originally because the Title has that girl-show sound to it. But as a guy, I was won over. It's got it's own unique sense of humor that I found genuinely intelligent (few bits of corny too) and there are scenes that create an enjoyable laugh.Personally, I'm so sick of the many copycat shows that exist purely on the lowest common denominator of gutter comedy. The language of this show is real, it's adult, it's comfortable, and it is funny. My Boys also has a nice fluidity from episode to episode. There's an underlying flow, not just what crazy mishap'll take place this week. And at the end of some, there's a positive ending. That part I really like.Lastly, the ensemble cast is a great mix of characters and personalities. It's not a bunch of stereotypes inflated by a funhouse mirror, but a likable group of friends who enjoy Baseball, Poker, and each other. They have a real chemistry as a group.My Boys is different from what else is on TV. Guys and gals will love the show. And I'm really really really glad that a show has been made that doesn't make me feel like I need a shower after I watch it.I enjoy. You will too.The show was an entertaining Surprise, and a good one at that. Well worth tuning in for Season 2 on a weekly basis.

My impression of the first show was that they were working too hard to bring viewers into an established group of friends, to put the group across and show the rapports between characters. It didn't seem to be representative of the interactions between a real group of friends, or perhaps if representative, representative in hyperbole. I could watch the show without too much pain, but would definitely prefer to avoid it. OTOH, Sex in the City was a favorite, and I found the relationships between the women to be generally believable, even though their relationships with men didn't always play, for me, often. For instance, Charlotte not having sex during the entire first month of marriage, and this other hairy man that she liked but she expected him to remove his hair for social/aesthetic reasons, both of those plot lines were ridiculous, but maybe they were meant to be. If the intent was to be an overt satire about the absurdity of relationships, those two cases would be fits and served their purpose.Getting back to the relationships between the My Boys characters, they aren't a fit for me. Somehow, they have tried too hard.