By now it's not a spoiler to liken this to Groundhog Day. Unfortunately, while it's supposed to be funny, it isn't. It's jarring and annoying. I wish I hadn't gone the distance.

Natasha Lyonne is a good actress, but the voice she adopts for this role is like Marge Simpson (she could fill in for Julie Kavner). She seems to want to emulate Lt. Colombo with her constant gesticulating and smoking (she should have used a cigar too), but she's too coiffed and clean to be Peter Falk. Her acting in this seems like an effort to create a really unappealing female character: tough, New York Jewish broad who's ready to transform into "sexy slag" at the first male proposition. Yet supposedly she has tons of friends. I wouldn't spend 10 minutes with this person.

In fact, the whole thing smacks of a kind of "It's a Jewish thing. You wouldn't understand." No, I wouldn't, and I wish I hadn't bothered trying. How irritating. Charlie Barnett turns in a great performance as Alan, but he can't save the whole thing from being irritating.

Why do people watch irritating series to the end sometimes? Because these shows are just engaging enough to keep you curious. You keep watching another episode, hoping you won't be disappointed. But I was left depressed and trying to forget it all day. It was a bit like watching "The Kominsky Method": full of angst and irritation, with a "meh" payoff at the end.

What did it for me maybe most was the Billy Joel-type song that repeats throughout. I don't like Billy Joel. He's a pompous git, as evidenced by his lyrics. In fact I'd rather have "I Got You Babe," and that's really saying something.