CBS Vampire Sitcom ‘Eternally Yours’ Is a Genial Riff on ‘Ghosts’: TV Review — SkimNews
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- 'Eternally Yours' premieres Oct. 8 at 8:30 p.m. ET on CBS and Paramount+, with critics having received only a single 22-minute episode to judge ahead of launch.
- Joe Port and Joe Weisman created 'Eternally Yours' and pitched it before developing CBS's 'Ghosts' from the British original, though the aired version's echoes of 'Ghosts' remain 'obvious' per the review.
- The show replaces ghosts with vampires who can physically interact with humans but still live forever, enabling time-period humor in a Seattle coven including a 500-year-old couple (Ed Weeks and Allegra Edwards) and an '80s personal trainer (Parker Young).
- Unlike FX's mockumentary 'What We Do in the Shadows,' 'Eternally Yours' is 'a broadcast comedy in its bones,' using a 'How I Met Your Mother'-style voiceover from human character Max (Jaren Lewison) rather than talking-head testimonials.
- The pilot includes a cutaway gag of the vampire couple receiving couples' therapy from Sigmund Freud, plus Charles' nihilistic aside to a human: 'you get to die.'
- The review judges it is 'too early to tell' whether the show will differentiate itself from 'Ghosts' or find its own voice in the crowded vampire-comedy field, even as it concedes the 'Ghosts' fan base may not mind the similarity.
Why it matters: CBS is betting that the 'Ghosts' audience will follow its showrunners to a vampire premise, but the review's verdict is that 'Eternally Yours' has yet to justify its existence beyond being a vampire-skinned 'Ghosts' — a concern given the pilot's reliance on familiar supernatural-roommate dynamics in a crowded vampire-comedy field.
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