I must admit I loved this show. The concept and the premise were sound. Kate Fox, (Alicia Silverstone, like the frying pan coating,) is a successful divorce lawyer who works at her father's law firm. Her father's also a divorce whose many affairs broke up his marriage to Kate's mother. So what does Kate do in her downtime? She sets people up for marriage. In short, she's a highly successful matchmaker whose private life went to hell in a handbasket in the first episode. What went wrong? I have no idea. NBC, the network it was on, pre- empted it with expanded versions of Dateline. After the last episode, it was taken off the air and never returned. Friday nights are usually bad for the networks because most people are going out to the movies on Friday nights, Nobody's staying home anymore. Except the desperate and dateless___I'm in that category. In the first episode, we see Kate coming out of court. She's talking to her boyfriend on her cell phone. Her boyfriend has so many plans for them. Among them a nice romantic weekend for two in Hawaii. She's racing to her car. She's still talking on her cell phone. She gets in, starts the car, pulls out onto the freeway, (not highway, in California, you don't pay tolls before getting on.) All the time she's still on her cell phone. She's still talking to her boyfriend. Then she decides to change for her first wedding. Two of the people she set up are getting married and she's the maid of honor. So she changes, all the while still driving her car, into the dress she's wearing as maid of honor. Her best friend is a bartender at the restaurant where she hangs out and sets up her clients. The next morning Kate's boyfriend wants them to get to the airport early so they won't miss their flight to Hawaii. He made the reservations without telling her. She takes her suitcase and cosmetic bag out of the trunk and tells him to go to Hawaii by himself. In the last episode, she was going to have a nice romantic weekend up the coast with her current boyfriend but he was at the hotel they were going to spend the weekend in with his ex-girlfriend. It deserves a second season. It didn't deserve the fate it got.
Review of Miss Match
