'Ground Floor': "The New Office" Recap
Ground Floor may not be the most original concept, but the actors seem made for their characters. When watching the show I don't think "Oh, there's John C. McGinley playing Mansfield" and "Skylar Astin pretending to be Brody Moyer," I wonder where the character ends and the actor behind it begins. John C. McGinley makes you forget he's Dr. Cox because he owns Mansfield. As for Skylar Astin, it appears he pretty much plays himself with a new name, which he gets away with because he has only been in a few things.
If McGinley, Astin, and the rest of the cast weren't so good at their roles, Ground Floor would be boring. In "The New Office," an older employee is fired and the young ones stab each other in the back to impress Mansfield. Thankfully, Brody and Threepeat are quirky enough that the backstabbing is friendly and silly. For example, Threepeat discovers a cool new way to sit down that he calls "the Riker," after Commander Riker from Star Trek: The Next Generation, but it backfires when it tries it in Mansfield's office because the chair back was too large. All the kissing up to the boss doesn't pay off, when no one gets the empty office. Mansfield decides to give it to his plant because it was the only thing in the room that didn't annoy him.
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'Ground Floor': Premiere Review
Last night, TBS's Ground Floor debuted with two back to back episodes. While I wasn't expecting much from the show, it is the best show I have seen this season. Ground Floor is pretty much a brotastic version of Just Shoot Me!, which sounds terrible, but actually ends up being better than latter.
Ground Floor stars Skylar Astin as Brody Moyer. Brody works for a money managing company owned by Remington Stewart Mansfield, who John C. McGinley plays masterfully. Remington feels that Brody is like the son he never had. He is grooming Brody to take over the company and wants Brody to focus solely on work. However, Brody met a girl, who works on the ground floor.
The pilot episode revolves around the tension between the top floor and the bottom floor. The top floor looks down on the bottom floor because a lot of those employees barely finished high school and will never move up in their careers. The bottom floor believes that the top floor is full of soulless people, who never have any fun.
Tags: brody moyer, derrick dupree, ground floor, jenny miller, john c. mcginley, mark "harvard" shrake, remington stewart mansfield, skylar astin, tbs