1.   Despite its high concept, the show frequently falls back on banal sitcom humor and is never as funny as the annoying laugh track suggests.

2.   The best sitcom humor, says Leifer, a longtime stand-up comic, comes from bizarre and offbeat family comments.

3.   The question is whether a drama about psychiatric patients and their doctors will prove simply too unsettling to network audiences accustomed to sitcom humor and twentysomething angst.

4.   The question is whether a drama about psychiatric patients and their doctors will prove simply too unsettling to network audinces accustomed to sitcom humor and twentysomething angst.

5.   The script is awful, but as a first episode it suggests the broad sitcom humor and visual jokes the series is going for.