Melissa & Joey

2010s tv sitcom

Mel Burke, local councilwoman, has to take care of her niece and nephew after their mother was arrested for money laundering. Since she already has a lot on her mind she hires Joey, who also was affected by the scandal, to be her live-in nanny for the kids.

Melissa & Joey plot sounds like a revised version of 1980s Who’s the Boss? sitcom. In fact it even looks like the remake of Who’s the Boss?, but in fact the chemistry between the characters is completely different. It started from the point that Melissa hires Joey as housekeeper and he has problem with accepting the role, but soon it moved to much more typical "family" sitcom with the problems of teenagers often being as important as other plots.

There isn’t much to say about this series - plots usually are simple, some of them quite entertaining, some of them not that good, jokes are not very impressive, the only thing that saves the show is cast. Melissa Joan Hart and Joseph Lawrence have know each other for a long time and it shows in the scenes. The two actors playing teenagers keep their parts real, so again no problem there.

But the main problem of the series is very limited potential - the tensions between Melissa and Joey faded out after just first few episodes and from that point it’s just another family sitcom.

Rating	5.2
Funny	4 / 10
Entertaining	3 / 5
Characters	3 / 5
Nonrepetitive	3 / 5