Mike & Molly: Complete First Season [Blu-ray] [US Import]

brilliantly funny sitcom about a couple who meet at over eaters annonymous. him a cop with wisecracking partner, and her a teacher with her stonner, loose living mother and sister. some great characters fire out the laughs concerning weight loss, love, and family life. some really funny moments in this show. loved it from the first episode. look forward to more

In the nineties, after a very long run, the series 'Roseanne' finally ended and when it did, TV truly seemed to 'cut the fat' as it were from realism and opted to provide a slew of anorexic, botoxed beauties and pretty boys with six packs. For the longest time it hurt to see on television that fat people were only ever the brunt of jokes, the ones who commit crimes of passion or were only ever used to fill an empty background. People regressed to their high school prejudices and maintained for years that it would never happen, that overweight people had no right to be the focus of a show but finally someone saw sense and brought out this charming series.

'Mike & Molly' brings back what the cancellation of shows like 'Roseanne' had taken away; a reminder that life comes in all shapes and sizes, colours, creeds and races. One of the main themes here is that love doesn't only come to those who are thin and unrealistically good looking: it really comes to everyone. If anything, those of us who aren't a size 10 will be thankful and feel a little better that people like us are being represented as the headliners and not as background characters.

The premise of the story focuses on Molly Flynn (a fourth grade teacher) and Mike Biggs (a beat cop) who meet at an Overeaters Anonymous club. The two are utterly determined to lose weight and find in each other a soul mates who soon find themselves easing carefully into a romantic relationship. The show has several interesting characters, including Molly's younger sister Victoria, a funeral beautician who spends most of her time smoking marijuana and partying, and Molly's mother Joyce who is a modern promiscous woman in her sixties, both of whom leave Molly feeling slightly out of touch. Mike's friends include wise-cracking fast witted beat partner Carl, and an intelligent but sarcastic waiter from Africa, as well as his control-freak and grumpy mother Peggy who wants to prevent him from being with Molly at all.

The show doesn't make a huge deal of the weight issue (so don't worry about fat being the brunt of jokes), but does touch on it realistically enough to be refreshing. The dialogue in this series is just truly sparkling, very well written and utterly hilarious (think 'Two and a Half Men' for reference) and while the stories are quite zany and sometimes unrealistic at points, they're still good enough to keep your attention for twenty-three minutes an episode. While it's not 'Roseanne', it's a good start to TV showing viewers how the world REALLY looks.

I love this show, its just so funny.....both the characters in the main role seem to work so well together and the other characters have just gotten better and better as the season went along. It really cheers me up this show and is a refreshing change! The DVD box set is also a real steal at this price for a full length season!