Knee-jerk review: NBC's "Up All Night"

1. Hmmm. Disappointing overall. The funniest bits were in the endless NBC promos, especially the direct-address bits where Christina Applegate and Will Arnett purr into the camera all sexy, only to reveal that their big "fantasies" involve getting some help with the baby.

2. The show itself is amusing, but not funny really. You'll smile, but you might not laugh.

3. We'll give it a few more chances. We do understand that it can take a new show some time to find itself, but then again, life is too short to watch episode after episode while six-figure writers try and work it out. Call us when it's ready, you know?

4. Also not keen on Maya Rudolph's character. Or even that whole workplace setting. Characters on TV shows are never ordinary people with boring jobs. Christina Applegate isn't a marketing manager or a teacher. No, she's the producer of a talk show. We can all relate, can't we? It's such a tough job.

5. The domestic stuff with the baby feels genuine and works with subtlty. That stands in sharp contrast to the broad, forced, this-is-a-wacky-sitcom humor at the TV show office.

6. Will Arnett is just this side of genius.

7. Christina Applegate, to us, is a little overrated in the comedy department. Funny and appealing, yes, but not out-and-out hilarious.

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