Men at Work

Men At Work kicks off its second season with an episode titled “Missed Connections”. The title refers to an on-line forum where people will post encounters where they may have missed making a connection with someone that might have had the potential to be “The One”, and sets up a meeting for later where the two can reconnect.

Milo, who hasn’t fully recovered from his break up in season one, finds that he might have been a missed connection for someone and, encouraged by Tyler, heads out to a café to see how it all pans out. Not well.

Though the opportunity for Milo to meet up with a possible connection proves to be a complete failure, it does give Tyler an idea. Use the website to create the perfect woman and then head to the meet up spot to see if she shows. This, of course, being all for Milo.

The episode was funny, sweet, could have even made for a great film starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan back in the 90’s. We only get halfway there though due to a huge amount of overacting by Michael Cassidy and not much else powering the episode aside from Danny Masterson’s very dry, very bland character Milo. Maybe Adam Busch and James Lesure had other commitments since their appearances in this episode are minimal, but the other two guys, on their own, just weren’t that great.

Mind you this is a twenty plus minute sitcom that isn’t trying to garner award winning performances, the episode still was a bit of a poor opening for the second season. Again, very sweet, had a few chuckle inducing moments, but not the strongest way to start off the second season.