Come get a laugh. Review on Dave's world

If you are back home from a day’s work, lazing on the couch, channel surfing or wishing to watch something you don’t have to put too much of your mind into? If yes then let me introduce you to Dave’s world… Here’s a little about them Dave Barry- a Pulitzer winning humourist.

A renowned columnist with an effortless wit and endless humour. He has a lovely wife Beth and 2 sons Tommy and Willy. Others in and around the Barry’s are Shell: Dave’s close pal, a plastic surgeon and a divorced single parent. Kenny: still an eligible bachelor, another of Dave’s chum. Meah: Dave’s personnel secretary and one hell of a weirdo. Eric: Dave’s carpenter cum plumber cum painter, basically handy jack in the neighbourhood who later falls in love with Meah and moves in with her. Well, these people are no stereotypical serial characters with everything perfect about them. They have their stumbling blocks and are a totally acceptable family next door. They have their little problems, skirmishes, upheavals and shortcomings. They also have some celebrations and accolades won.

They go through life like most of us do. The remarkable thing is that at the end of each episode is a message. A little something from Dave Barry that may be trivial but will make so much sense at some point in time. Dave’s hilarity is appreciable. Being a writer, working at home has made him senile in a way that he is not really unto any physical activity. He cannot repair the dishwasher or build his son a tree house. Dave, Beth, Kenny and Shell gather around the dining table on weekends with cold beers and popcorn to play poker.

Shell is a self involved man on a desperate lookout for someone to love, care and share his life. He goes out of the way to make his presence felt and gaining some recognition.

Kenny is a flamboyant young man, who can be stopped by nothing in his search for the perfect woman. I have to mention his memory that is shorter lived than a castle of cards they build.

Meah is into cosmic healing and stuff like meeting spirits and even yoga. Nevertheless, in times of crisis all of them pitch in for the one in crisis.

Dads are by and large portrayed picture perfect. They are supposed to be strong and bossy. However, Dave’s unable to build a tree house or even a tent. He is not one of those overzealous fathers or ever romantic husbands yet there is something about him that lures you.

The little boy’s first stage play or the older boy’s first crush and date or Shell’s post divorce trauma where he goes through ripping photographs or Kenny’s adventuresome ‘night’s or Meah’s exceedingly perplexing acts, Beth’s cool motherly instincts are all incidents we people can connect to. The sibling rivalry, funny skirmishes, miniscule revenges and very importantly zero punitive measures in the very typical sense is all this show is about. On the whole it is very compelling. It deals with the different hues of life with wit. Rejection, rejoicing, alacrity about a holiday, birthdays, disastrous anniversary plans, dreading mom’s visits, tiring flue attacks, fear, indolence, hope and togetherness. It is pleasing how a serial on something mundane has the monotony broken off it and makes it’s viewing easy and enjoyable. It is not a mind-numbing soap, not a thrill-seeking show, certainly not a dim-witted comedy series but a smooth entertainer with a connotation.