Reba McEntire deserves more than this

I so desperately wish to be glad that Reba McEntire is again on community TV.

The nation singer and actress anchored some of the pleasant sitcoms of the 2000s with “Reba,” a few single mother who works too laborious, loves her youngsters and by no means stops. The WB present ran for six seasons and 125 episodes, with its dysfunctional however lovable Hart household on the coronary heart of each story Reba and co-stars Melissa Peterman, JoAnna Garcia Swisher, Steve Howey and Christopher Wealthy instructed.

So you’ll suppose {that a} new sitcom starring McEntire and Peterman set in a Tennessee bar (hiya, “Cheers” aspirations) and with one other very dysfunctional household dynamic could be a assure of one other “Reba”-style good time. Alas, NBC’s “Glad’s Place” (Fridays, 8 EDT/PDT, ★★ out of 4) isn’t any “Reba.” It is simply one other low-rent sitcom with stale jokes, bland characters and a limp plot. It isn’t a lot that it is unhealthy, it is simply so boring, banal and blah. And that’s merely not ok for the likes of three-time Grammy winner McEntire, 69. She deserves scripts that sing simply in addition to she does.