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Father struggles to deal with raising his teenage daughters when his wife takes up a job at hospital that requires spending more time away from family.
Not very original idea, but with good cast and not bad scripts it did work for some time, but not very long time. After unfortunate death of John Ritter during the filming it went in completely different direction with two new characters added (played by David Spade and James Garner) to replace him.
8 Simple Rules could be one of the very, very rare examples when change in cast of the comedy series makes it better - John Ritter’s character couldn’t evolve much more and the addition of Spade to cast actually opened a lot of new opportunities for series to develop.
Rating | 5.6 |
Funny | 5 / 10 |
Entertaining | 4 / 5 |
Characters | 2 / 5 |
Nonrepetitive | 3 / 5 |
2002 Season 1 |
2003 Season 2 |
2004 Season 3 |