Four Kings

Reviewed by:
Gregg Braverman

The latest group of friends being crammed into the Must-See TV slot on NBC are a rag-tag group of childhood buddies trying to live together after one of them inherits an implausibly large Manhattan apartment. Similarly goofy but distinctive quirks (One works out! One plays guitar! One is a ruby-headed midget!) keep the boys on constant lookout, lest they want to wake up to a lipstick ambush or a late night tea-bagging or whatever it is young, heterosexual men do to each other for fun. Seth Green is the foundation, settling into the screwball pedigree he has perfected in movies like The Italian Job and Without a Paddle, while the remainder of the quartet includes capable newcomers Shane McRae, Todd Grinnell, and Josh Cooke (who, based solely on his character's freelance affiliation to Maxim magazine, must be the looker of the bunch). The in-this-together camaraderie reeks of freshman year, helping the Kings welcome you seamlessly into their gang—so long as you don't keep insisting they join your weekly trips to the comic book store.