“basically The Mary Tyler Moore Show without laughs.”
I acyually downloaded a new episode and watched it ( suffering for truth).
It was much less than that. It was sheer artistic awfulness. Vacuous as a CNN ‘news’ segment.
There’s a number of shows over the past forty years which aren’t really entertaining. Saturday Night Live....for the first two or three years, was a great show, but if you tried watching it over the past decade....it’s garbage. China Beach and Knight Rider were not entertaining. Melrose Place was not entertaining. 90210 was not entertaining. The first five years of MASH was funny, but the later years were lousy. Coach was not entertaining. Silver Spoons was a total loser.