Sunday, September 26, 1999
'Snoops,' 'Jack & Jill,' fall down
You don't know Jack. And you won't want to. WB's new Jack & Jill, and ABC's Snoops, are two good reasons to watch the 9 p.m. Sunday movie or tonight's Saturday Night Live special.
• Jack & Jill (9 p.m., Channel 64): Everything on this WB romantic comedy is as contrived as the lead characters' names, Jacqueline “Jack” Barrett (Amanda Peet, One Fine Day) and David “Jill” Jillefsky (Ivan Sergei, The Opposite of Sex).
Jack and Jill meet when she runs off to New York in her wedding dress after learning her fiancee slept with her maid of honor the night before their wedding. Jill's about to move in with his girlfriend Elisa (Sarah Paulson), until the chance meeting.
Jack eventually finds a job in the big city and makes a friend there, who just happens to be Elisa. (Is this New York or Melrose Place?)
Viewers should be braced for Jack and Jill's voice-over commentary. After meeting Elisa, she says: “She was my girlfriend at first sight. If you're a girl, you know what I mean.”
No, I'm not a girl, and I don't care. And I don't want these people in my house.
• Snoops (9 p.m., Channels 9, 2): Maybe David E. Kelley isn't a genius after all. That's what you'll say after watching his new ABC drama about young law-breaking private eyes starring Gina Gershon (Showgirls), Paula Marshall (Cupid), Danny Nucci (Titanic) and Paula Jai Parker (Get on the Bus).
Ms. Gershon stars as Glenn Hall, who once negotiated the release of a billionaire's son by promising to have sex with the kidnapper. She orders her employees to tap phones illegally and hack into secret computer files.
“We bug people. We break into their homes. We steal Social Security numbers,” she explains. “We're not the police. We have more in common with the criminals. We just have better intentions.”
Mr. Kelley had good intentions, too. He probably thought Snoops could be a new Mission: Impossible. But it might not last longer than CBS' Snoops, the 1989 drama starring Tim Reid and his wife.
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