The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

This isn't the strongest television effort ever, but it is a pretty solid sitcom. It seems to get better as the season goes on. I think the disappointment is twofold: 1) It could never live up to the movie. 2) The sitcom was going through a major revolution during this time. This is a classical sitcom in the mold of the 70's, 80's, and 90's and as sitcoms started to evolve from 3 camera to 1, I think user tastes may have been changing.All this said, I am disappointed it didn't get at least a full season or two, but it is worth watching. I picked it up for $5 at Walmart or somewhere similar. It's definitely better than most things in the bargain bin.

Nia Vardalos's efforts in tv land joins the ranks of the McLean Stevenson Show and the Starland Vocal Band Hour. I can't say I'm shocked. Wish this show had stuck around. I respect artists who push the envelope and think it could have gotten a lot worse.

My Big Fat Greek Life. More like My big fat greek WASTE OF TIME! I watched the pilot of this show and it was the cheeziest, stupidest, it's got a half a season to get better show. Mind you, I did not see the movie yet. A couple days ago, I did get the chance to view My Big Fat Greek Wedding, and I believed the show a little over-rated. Nia Vardalos did not perform well at all (not even her narration was good). I would not call this show good at all.

A classic blunder, executives see how wildly successful the movie "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" was, and they immediately work up plans for a TV series, hoping to capitalize on the film's success. But what happens instead is taking something that turned out great, and mercilessly beating it to death, trying to squeeze every last penny out of it.The movie was great, but the sit-com sucks. The movie was full of funny characters, and the humor was very spontaneous. The characters didn't have to try to be funny, because they were just funny anyway. They seemed very genuine in the film, but in the pilot episode of the series, everything seemed so forced. The jokes and one-liners were poorly written and poorly delivered.Furthermore, the chemistry between Ian and Toula in the film was very convincing; Ian was very charming and Toula was very loving. I thought that both Nia Vardalos and John Corbett did a great job. In the show, however, the replacement Ian (called "Thomas" in the show) was a total putz, I didn't like him at all, and he had almost no chemistry with Toula (or "Nia", rather). In the film, Ian was very accepting and even enthusiastic to espouse the Portokalos family traditions. But in the show, he bitches to Nia about "boundaries" and bickers with Gus about who built Stonehenge.The only character that was almost tolerable on the show was Gus, the dad. They overdid his dialogue a bit, but he's still funny to watch."My Big Fat Greek Wedding" was a great movie, it was relatively inexpensive to produce and made lots of money, and people loved it. And I'm sure many DVDs and VHS tapes will be sold. I already have the DVD. "My Big Fat Greek Life", on the other hand, is just a bad idea; the movie was a great movie and let's just leave it at that, don't corrupt its legacy with a cornball sit-com.