pancake_repairman With most movies and tv shows it's usually pretty clear who you're supposed to sympathise with and when, but this show just leaves me puzzled. The wife seems to be the only sympathetic character. It sometimes seems like the viewer is supposed to be torn between whether or not to sympathize with the husband, but for the most part he is a slimy weasel with no redeeming qualities. If I didn't know better I'd speculate that the character was written by an angry feminist, but considering we know the show is written by a man, I find it hard to know where he's coming from. The main character's friends and co-workers all seem to have the same misogynistic slimy weasel mentality, like they're all carbon copies of each other. There isn't a single "nice guy" character in the mix at all. It also seems almost inconceivable that the husband could have ever landed the wife, or even would have wanted to go through with the ceremony anyway. We don't witness the presumable slow decay of the marriage to get to the point where all the husband can think about is cheating on his wife, and the only time he's interested in talking to her is to make sure she doesn't think something is going on, but it's difficult to imagine how they ever could have had any good times.

jiggyjeff87 saying its the worst show on hbo is like saying the worst pitcher in the yankees rotation. The show isnt bad the relationships are overly dramatic but they are realistic to a extent under all of it. And the plot is unrealistic but its realistic enough and its entertaining to a extent. the real reason i watch this show is the dry humor and being able to laugh at the fascades everyone puts up on the shows. these marriages arent how life really is but its interesting just having charectors that u can relate to in a fu*ked up sort of way. the way the conversations go are real and thats why i watch this and all hbo shows. except arliss i dont know why i watch that. but for all the people ripping on this show watch one of the four episodes of The Pitss just so u can remind yourself what a horrible tv show is laugh track included. really hbo shows are blown out of proportion and unexciting but thats life and thats why it is good. eventually basic tv will get better then The Sheild and when it does i wont have time to watch this stuff but until that point this show is way better then any dramody or drama on abc, fox, cbs, or nbc. so that included this is one of the top shows on tv and its a shame hbo canceled it for k street. because i watched that show and it was way too weird. k street is the reason it hasnt officially been canceled yet because they wanted to see how kstreet does. I just hope people can see that this is way better then any idea HBO has put forth thus far. They were right in canceling Mr. SHow so i cant say htis show is better then something they could put on but its better then the sister act 2. so ill watch. and if u bothered to read this rambling misguided post i thank you. and i apologize for repeating my point more then a Bush speech

mstcyr2 I stumbled in to "The Mind of the Married Man" after HBO had the unmitigated audacity to cancel it, so critiquing the show is pointless post-mortum. Nonetheless, I absolutely love the TMOTMM, and it cuts deeper than practically anything I've seen of late on television, despite the fact that it's a comedy, black as it may be. Tell me, does anyone know where I can get a list of the songs that play in the background during the closing credits? I've heard about five songs that I really like, but I don't know the name of the songs or the artists. (I recognize the Marc Cohn sings the terrific title tune) I think "U2" sings one of them, and, I must confess, I have never jumped on the U2 bandwagon.I think the reason that the TMOTMM didn't make it is because wives wouldn't let their husbands watch it, which is perplexing since husbands don't mind if their wives watch the predictable pretentious, "Sex in the City." Since married Johns didn't watch it, who's left to tune in? I guess I'll have to listen to someone other than Jake to get advice on my marriage.Mark

[email protected] I simply cannot understand some of the criticisms of this show, specifically that the characters are unrealistic. I see these character types all the time, from the cheating alpha male (Jake) to the loyal but whipped Doug. Binder's own character is stuck in the middle like most of us, he wants to please his wife without defering to her on every issue. The constant struggles between love and boredom, power and submission, and monogomy and straying is played out in depth every week. The writing is witty, intelligent and focused, it often takes the unexpected turn. Hopefully it can maintain its quality.