Jamie Lee Curtis, Téa Leoni and Tim Daly Lead NBC’s Refreshing and Witty Sitcom ‘Newlyweds’: TV Review

Sitcoms aren’t what they used to be. Though a select few on network television, like “Abbott Elementary” and “Ghosts,” pay homage to comedies of the past while tapping into present-day culture, sitcoms today rarely feel truly universal. NBC’s “Newlyweds,” co-created by Jamie Lee Curtis and (the since-fired) Gail Lerner, is fun and refreshing, speaking to […] In NBC's "Newlyweds" real-life couple Téa Leoni and Tim Daly play a newly married couple trying to navigate their new romance and vastly different lives. Sitcoms aren’t what they used to be. Though a select few on network television, like “Abbott Elementary” and “Ghosts,” pay homage to comedies of the past while tapping into present-day culture, sitcoms today rarely feel truly universal.

NBC’s “Newlyweds,” co-created by Jamie Lee Curtis and (the since-fired) Gail Lerner, is fun and refreshing, speaking to a collective audience across generations.Set in present-day Los Angeles, “Newlyweds” begins with a blind date. James (Tim Daly), a reserved college professor, sits anxiously in a restaurant, awaiting Jeanie (Téa Leoni), a free-spirited middle school teacher who is trying to decide whether she even wants to meet James. After individually deciding to bail on the dinner, the pair run into each other by the valet, and their