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"Trophy Wife has a concept I love on paper: A former hard-partying single gal (Malin Akerman) marries a twice-divorced older dude, thus inheriting a whole family unit instantly and trading in karaoke for carpooling. Fun, right? Well, the crazy thing is, throughout last night&amp;#x27;s premiere episode, I found myself totally spacing on the central schtick and realizing: This is a show with a hidden great female cast, and I kind of want to swat everybody else out of the way to watch. (Sorry, kiddies!) It&amp;#x27;s not that I don&amp;#x27;t love children. It&amp;#x27;s not that I don&amp;#x27;t love Bradley Whitford. But OK, if there&amp;#x27;s a misgiving to be had about this show, it just might be that I&amp;#x27;m not totally buying Malin and Bradley&amp;#x27;s chemistry&amp;amp;#8212;I found myself tapping my foot through their shared scenes while waiting for more stuff like Malin and Marcia Gay Harden (wife #1) icily facing off at a parent-teacher conference. Throw in Michaela Watkins as wife #2 and Natalie Morales (that is, the one who played Aziz Ansari&amp;#x27;s GF on Parks) as Malin&amp;#x27;s barhopping buddy, and you&amp;#x27;ve got yourself a cast so legit, everybody else could just go home. I don&amp;#x27;t mean to rain pain on everyone with a Y chromosome: This is certainly a strong cast overall. I just happen to think Trophy Wife boasts a pretty cool hidden-gem situation for us as female viewers, especially. And my prediction, at this point, is that the show will be strongest when everybody lets Malin dish out her club-scene Lucille Ball thing&amp;amp;#8212;with the super-sharp brunette exes giving it right back to her. I&amp;#x27;m giving Trophy Wife a B+ and am definitely in for season one. What did you think? Photo: ABC"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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