Thomas Haden Church plays ambitious ad executive Ned Dorsey and Debra Messing is struggling journalist Stacey Colbert, strangers who clash on a blind date set up by his best friend (Greg Germann) and her sister (Nadia Dajani). Ned and Stacey end up marrying for purely practical reasons: he needs a wife in order to get a promotion and she can't afford a decent place to live. Ned is smug, cynical, and self-centered, while Stacey is idealistic and emotional with a touch of the bohemian and a taste for luxury. Both are free to date others—they have separate bedrooms and lead separate lives except when his job calls for a wife—and of course they constantly get on one another's nerves. That's the set-up for this short-lived sitcom from Michael Weithorn, who went on to create the much better The King of Queens. The series is notable largely for its two stars—Church came to the show from Wings and Messing went on to star in the popular Will & Grace—but otherwise it's a standard '90s sitcom without any distinctive character or stylistic freshness to differentiate it from the rest of the TV schedule. Compiling all 46 episodes from the 1995-97 first and second (and last) seasons, extras include audio commentary on the pilot episode, and a retrospective featurette. Optional. (S. Axmaker)
Ned and Stacey: The Complete Series
Shout! Factory, 6 discs, 1,035 min., not rated, DVD: $44.99 Volume 33, Issue 1
Ned and Stacey: The Complete Series
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