Up & Coming Weekly

April 3, 2012

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The Buddy System Companionship Medication Reminders Meal Preparation Light Housekeeping Shopping & Errands Personal Care Each Home Instead Senior Care® Call for a free, no-obligation appointment: 910.484.7200 homeinstead.com ce is independently owned and operated. © 2010 Home Instead, Inc. 8v8pr Qrr Friends Forever (Wednesday, 8:30 p.m., NBC), Jessica (Jessica St. Clair) moves back in with her high-school soul mate, Lennon (Lennon Parham), after a messy di- vorce. Only one problem: Lennon's overgrown child of a boyfriend, Joe (Luka Jones), now lives in the apart- ment, too. Jessica desperately tries to rekindle her BFF sisterhood with Lennon (watching Steel Magnolias, preparing fussy foodie meals) as if Joe weren't there. But Joe is there — boy is he ever. He's an oaf who can't crack the Jessica-Lennon code, even when he tries to watch Steel Magnolias with them. "We don't talk dur- ing the film!" Jessica snaps at him from the couch, where she and Lennon are sharing a blanket. TV by DEAN ROBBINS In Best This wonderful new sitcom brings elements of Kristen Wiig's Bridesmaids to the small screen. It features complex female relationships, with characters who feel real for all their eccentricities. The comedy is sophisticated, though not above gross-out moments. As in Bridesmaids, its creators/stars — St. Clair and Parham — are women with a background in improv and a keen in- sight into contemporary manners. St. Clair herself appeared in Bridesmaids, and apparently some of Wiig's genius rubbed off on her. "She's just ruining everything!" Joe moans to Lennon after Jessica settles into their love nest. Women bond – a bit too intensely – in Best Friends Forevers Season 76th Maybe for you, but not for the rest of us. Million Dollar Listing New York Wednesday, 10 pm (Bravo) The spinoff reality series follows three real-estate agents dealing in luxury Manhattan properties. Two of them are arrogant male-model types, often shown lathering their muscles in the shower before a day of work. (Clearly, Bravo owns a fair number of waterproof cameras.) The third is a pampered real-estate baron's son who chortles about the need to be politically correct during the economic downturn. "I have a list of words I can't say," he tells his father. They both laugh it up over the new banned term "prestigious." Whether they say it or not, the agents do traffic in prestige. They buy and sell apartments for people who own 1,000-plus pairs of shoes and will walk only on Carrara marble. Bravo must think we'll find it amusing to gawk at the 1 percent in this era of Occupy Wall Street, but the people in Million Dollar Listing New York are so vile that it's hard to do anything but fume. Hunky Ryan brags about scoring with the previous night's date, though he 8Uurhr&)" QH Avqh 6vy " ! ! AvpxrphyyUvpxrhr ' &#$ " ur 87Pspr#"' # www.community-concerts.com For more information visit our website: 20 UCW APRIL 4-10, 2012 can't remember her name. Even his loyal secretary says, "Ryan, you disgust me." That makes two of us. The Client List Sunday, 10 pm (Lifetime) Riley (Jennifer Love Hewitt), a wholesome mom from Beaumont, Texas, can't find a job to support her kids. She finally gets work at a massage parlor, where she expects to draw on her background in reflexology. But during her first session with a client, she's shocked to find that he expects an "extra." The kindhearted madam can't believe Riley didn't know what she was getting into. Neither can we. In real life, a trained massage therapist might flee such a scenario. The Client List, though, is anything but real. Thinking only of her kids, Riley strips to a lacy bra and panties and sets to work with a bottle of massage oil in one hand and an ice cube in the other. And damned if she doesn't retain her wholesomeness, no matter how raunchy the massages get. After a career of combining the sweet and the sexy, Hewitt knows just how to salvage the ma- terial with her irresistible Party of Five smile. Like Riley's clients, I suspect, viewers are apt to leave the real world behind for a weekly visit to this massage parlor. WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM

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