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"I will be truthful: I didn&amp;#x27;t think I was gonna like We Are Men, the CBS comedy that follows four recently rejected guys licking their wounds at a motel complex. The main reason was I just didn&amp;#x27;t see these four actors going together. I have been wrong a few thousand times in my life. I used to think guacamole was gross, and I also remember thinking I&amp;#x27;d never get into The Office. This is another one of those times: I was totally, flat-out wrong. I mean, I had a hunch I was wrong as soon as I read the quartet&amp;#x27;s crackling Q+A with Jess. But the pilot really sold me. Much like chocolate and Pringles (yup, add that genius combo to the list of things I originally misjudged), these four work perfectly. What&amp;#x27;s more, they work perfectly in this specific scenario. It&amp;#x27;s a weird little world, requiring some greasiness (brought by Jerry O&amp;#x27;Connell, whose character is the resident pretty boy) and some sleaziness (provided by Tony Shalhoub, which is bizarre to behold). Kal Penn, whom I honestly wasn&amp;#x27;t crazy about in How I Met Your Mother, is much better as the befuddled good guy in this show. And, of course, as the wide-eyed freshman in this twisted boys&amp;#x27; club, Chris Smith supplies the crush potential. Based on the fact that I&amp;#x27;ve already used the words &amp;quot;greasiness&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;sleaziness,&amp;quot; you probably won&amp;#x27;t be surprised to hear that there&amp;#x27;s also a generous dose of cheesiness in this show. But it&amp;#x27;s the right amount: just enough to make you go &amp;quot;aww,&amp;quot; not enough to make you go away. (Though I&amp;#x27;ve got my eye on you, Shalhoub. I&amp;#x27;m all for an actor stretching, but I can only take so much Monk leering at young ladies.) And truth be told, what sounds like a clever hook&amp;amp;#8212;the whole motel thing gives the show a losers&amp;#x27;-Entourage vibe&amp;amp;#8212;would get old/creepy pretty fast if the four of them didn&amp;#x27;t ultimately come off good-hearted. Which they do&amp;amp;#8212;and besides, I kinda love the idea of watching four love story lines unfold in reverse, i.e., we&amp;#x27;re meeting them all as they&amp;#x27;ve been dumped and seeing where things go from there. I&amp;#x27;m giving We Are Men a B, and I&amp;#x27;ll probably hang in for at least the first half of the season. After all, these guys have already been through so much&amp;amp;#8212;I&amp;#x27;m happy to be the girl to give them a decent chance. What did you think of this one? Photo: CBS"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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