"You, Me and Her" is a mixed bag which isn't going to be for everyone. I've enjoyed it enough to watch all three seasons and am looking forward to the fourth season. Some non-spoiler observations:
1. The two female leads, Emma and Izzy (Rachel Blanchard and Priscilla Faia), are wonderful. When they turn on the charm, they sell every scene they're in.
2. The male lead, Jack (Greg Poehler, brother of the SNL alumna), doesn't make as strong an impression, mostly because his character is written as perennially anxious and insecure. As is noted at one point, he looks like he should be Greg Kinnear's younger brother.
3. The overall arc of the show is that the characters get together, split up, and get together again. Wash, rinse, repeat. What makes this mostly work is that you get a powerful sense that the characters are truly in love with each other.
4. So much alcohol...and pot. Mostly alcohol. I'm not sure how any character in the show still has a functioning liver.
5. There are plenty of great side characters. I think that the character of Nina gets overused, but the characters of Carmen and Dave are well-developed. There's also a "Gladys Kravitz" in the first season who feels like an old sitcom throwback character.
6. The TV-MA rating is peculiar. There's no nudity despite the overall sexiness of the show and no particular violence. There is a *lot* of sexual language and the theme of polyamory seems to have pushed the rating as high as it is.
7. The show is strongest, IMO, when it enacts the practical problems of three adults trying to live in relationship. What happens when they each want to live in different cities? This is tricky with two people; with three people the problems grow geometrically. There's a scene where they're trying to decide where to sit in a car. That mundane scene feels nicely grounded and typical of the day-to-day challenges of people in relationships.
8. For all of the chaos and dysfunction in the show, there are touching scenes that give it heart and an emotional core. The third season finale is particularly moving.
Review of You Me Her
