Tayloriona
Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
Lachlan Coulson
This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.
Dana
An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
SnoopyStyle
Ed Stevens (Tom Cavanagh) hates his job as a contracts lawyer in NYC. When he misplaces a comma costing the firm $1.6 million, he gets fired. He goes home to find his wife Liz in bed with a mailman (not THE mailman). While feeling nostalgia for high school, he flies back to Stuckeyville, Ohio to ask out cheerleader dream girl Carol Vessey (Julie Bowen). The only problem is that Carol doesn't know who he is and she already has a boyfriend. Carol is now teaching at the high school with Ed's old friend Molly Hudson (Lesley Boone). His best friend Mike Burton (Josh Randall) is a doctor struggling to take over the practice from retiring Dr. Walter Jerome. Mike and his wife Nancy Burton (Jana Marie Hupp) has a baby girl. Ed decides to buy the local bowling alley and then starts his small town law office there. Phil Stubbs (Michael Ian Black), Shirley Pifko (Rachel Cronin) and Kenny Sandusky (Mike Starr) are three weirdos who work at the bowling alley. Kenny would later leave to be replaced by the wheelchair bound Eli Goggins (Daryl Mitchell). Warren Cheswick (Justin Long), Mark Vanacore (Michael Genadry) and Diane Snyder (Ginnifer Goodwin) are three of the students in Carol's class who show up prominently in the Ed and Carol saga.The show starts by hooking the audience on Ed chasing Carol. It also introduces some great fun side characters. It's a great group. While the back and forth between Ed and Carol is fun for awhile, the show does struggle to figure out what to do with the relationship at a certain point. The big showdown between Carol and Frankie does have some problems. Unlike the other romantic connections, Frankie is a simple nice girl and her departure leaves a sour taste. The show is not a ratings juggernaut for the first three seasons. In the fourth and final shorten season, it fades when Ed finally catches Carol and loses the energy of unrequited love. Carol going to NYC doesn't help but the die was cast by then. The last half season is mostly trying to inject some drama as the show wraps up.
Maniac-9
One of my favorite shows when it originally aired. The show is about a lawyer who comes back to his hometown after he finds his wife cheating on him with the mailman. After he's back he buys the local bowling alley which he also sets up his law practice in.The show is filled with tons of quirky characters and all the characters seem to have great chemistry together.Ed's best friend is Mike who's a doctor and each of them make $10 bets with each other making the other do embarrassing dares. The object of Ed's affection is Carol who he had a crush on in high school.A lot of actors from this show have gone onto really successful careers post Ed.Julie Bowen is now the star of Modern Family. Ginnifer Goodwin has been in a ton of movies and also was on Big Love. Justin Long has been in multiple movies.
marcus_stokes2000
*Ed SPOILERS* Ed Stevens (Tom Cavanagh, 'Scrubs') is a lawyer with a good job and a loving wife; but one day he gets fired for having forgotten a comma in a contract which creates a loss of 1,500,000 $ and coming home finds his wife in bed with the postman.So he decides to move back to his hometown of Stuckeyville, where he ends up living with his best friend Mike (Josh Randall), who's now a doctor, married and father of a baby girl, and becoming the owner of the local bowling, which he not only revitalizes, but opens a law practice in.And let's not forget one of the reasons he moved back to Stuckeyville; Carol Vessey (Julie Bowen, 'ER'), the girl Ed has always been smitten with and who is now a teacher at the local high school.An interesting, quirky drama in the vein of 'Everwood', 'Ed' manages to gently attract your interest and have you spend 45 minutes in their very enjoyable company, being kind of sad when the ending credits appear.Ed: 9/10.
Mindyd
I have seen every episode of Ed. Many episodes I have watched, I have come away disappointed. However, recently, Ed has been getting better. The storylines reflect those of the first season. During the second season of Ed, the charm that drew me to the show in the first place was gone and I couldn't believe that I was still watching it. However, I stuck with it. I knew that sooner or later, it would have to get better . . . and you know what????? It did. The season finale . . . (perhaps the last EVER episode of Ed, since NBC might be dropping it next year). . . completely restored my faith in the series. It couldn't have been written much better. Ed had to choose between two people that he loved equally. I applaud the writers. They were able to portray this realistically. You really believed that Ed loved both Carol and Frankie. This is why we watch Ed, why we keep coming back to the same thing year after year. Ed shows that it is possible to bomb a Sophomore Season and come screaming to the finish line first in the third.I truly hope that Ed is not cancelled. I would like to see what happens to Carol and Ed's relationship. After all, we have been waiting for what seems to be an eternity for them to get together. It's about time. From the first season this was what we expected. Now Ed and Carol are together. NBC . . . give Ed a year with Carol. We, the audience want it.
