How long will Lee and Angel be able to work it?
When I initially saw commercials Work It, a new ABC comedy, in the fall it didn’t seem that appealing but through the magic of repetitive commercials it eventually grew on me and I was interested in watching it. Especially when I realized that one of the male leads is Amaury Nolasco who I remembered from FOX’s sleeper hit Prison Break<em>.</em> After watching the premiere though I’m back on the fence as to whether or not I want to devote a half-hour weekly to watching it.
Lee (Benjamin Koldyke) and Angel (Amaury Nolasco) are best friends who used to work at Pontiac as a salesman and a mechanic, respectively, until the company went out of business. Their unemployment has run out and desperate times call for desperate measures. After Lee goes to the doctor and receives a $900 bill and runs into Kelly (Kate Reinders), a pharmaceutical sales rep from Coreco, he gets the idea to dress up as a woman to interview for a position at the company.
Initially, Lee doesn’t want to let Angel in on the full details of his new job. He unintentionally offends him by breaking their agreement if one works, they both work. But after seeing Angel working at Astro Taco Lee lets him in on the secret and offers to help him. Angel initially blows his interview with Vanessa (Rochelle Aytes), their boss, when he can’t get over his attraction towards her but redeems himself when she needs her car started and he is able to fix it. All the women in the office are impressed that Angel got under a car in a skirt. Uhm, shouldn’t that have been a giveaway that something was up? The only woman in the office who seems to be leery of Lee and Angel is Grace (Rebecca Mader), the regional sales leader who feels threatened by her new competition.
While the episode did provide some good laughs, especially from Nolasco’s Angel who has a hard time fully grasping his role as a woman and continues to hit on the women he works with, I just feel that the premise of the show can get old quickly. Seriously, at some point the women that Lee and Angel are working with are going to catch on and how is Lee going to be able to keep this charade up with his wife. And if they do find out, will the joke just be on us the viewer to see how the writing adapts to it.
And one last thing, is this show meant to demonstrate the lengths people are willing to go to get a job in this economy or is it just a humorous approach for Lee and Angel to learn from the women that they are working with how to be better men to the women in their lives?
This review originally appeared on TV Geek Army.