Salon.com > justin kirk http://www.salon.com Sat, 25 May 2013 01:08:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 “Animal Practice”: Dr. Dolittle, you smug cad! http://www.salon.com/2012/08/13/animal_practice_sour_human_tricks/ http://www.salon.com/2012/08/13/animal_practice_sour_human_tricks/#comments Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:44:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=12979979 “Animal Practice,” the second of NBC’s new comedies to get a preview after the Olympics, aired last night at a pre-ordained time, thus pre-empting part of The Who’s closing ceremony performance. The Spice Girls, supermodels strutting and Russell Brand singing The Beatles are all tough acts for a sitcom pilot to follow — it’s not easy reaching such a high level of intentional-accidental humor and pathos — but anger, even if it's just about the interruption of a set by The Who, is a pretty solid state of mind to begin watching “Animal Practice” with. Not because the show is infuriating (or not because the show is more infuriating than most pilots), but because it has a biting, sour streak. It's a show about Dr. Doolittle if Dr. Doolittle were a smug cad. Watching this show in a heart-warmed, universe-loving, Olympic state of mind would have been the wrong way to begin. Mildly incensed is about right.

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