Men in Trees: Fluffy, yet Fun

Men in Trees: Fluffy, yet Fun by Roxanne McDonald

Men in Trees … it’s Emma meets Northern Exposure. It’s quirky, clever, and unexpectedly entertaining.

That is, you don’t expect the jewels if you don’t know Men in Trees is created by the Sex in the City author, Jenny Bicks.

Anne Heche is Marin Frist, a psychiatrist, relationship coach, and popular author who is at the top of her social game. She is selling her books on how to get, find, keep, live with a man; she is engaged to Graham McCarthy; and she has devoted friends and fans.

But her perfect world, which she exploits to sell signatures on equally thriving book titles, shows itself a sham when she discovers groom-to-be (in like a week) having an ongoing affair. In Elmo, Alaska on a gig to help the men (who outnumber women 10 to 1 here) find relationships, Marin re-thinks her metropolitan lifestyle. Once she gets over the twittering birds that distract her from writing and the pesky raccoon that tears into and then runs off with her wedding dress, she starts to thinking about settlin’ down in the backwoods Elmo with the sexy yet simple straight men to her fumbling comic relief.

There’s a love interest already, though Marin is not directly aware of the fact (for, as like psychics who can’t read their own fates, this shrink can’t objectify her own love life behavior). And when the ex-cheater of course shows up in Alaska to get her back, saying he is sure she hasn’t done the same thing he has by sleeping with a man up there, that potential love interest/sexual-tension in a hunk speaks up (after speaking little, usually) and tells Graham he slept with Marin. If that isn’t profound enough for the pompous boob Graham, if Jack (played by the smoldering babe James Tupper) isn’t enough of a discouragement to send Graham back tail between legs to the city and his fling thing, the other Elmo men, one at a time, each state that he has slept with Marin, too.

And all this after using her hair dryer shuts down all the power in town for hours. (read more…)

Ann Heche Sparkles in Men In Trees Season Premiere

Men In Trees - Season Premiere Episode by Mike Liebner

Ann Heche of Ellen Degeneres lesbian love affair fame now has her own tv series.   I must admit my first thought when I saw she was the star of Men In Trees was that I thought she was washed up career wise and that it was a bold move for a network to get behind a show with her at the helm.

I guess you could have said the same thing about Ellen who is now kicking butt with her talk show. But Ann Heche never did score big. Her movies were pretty much flops as far as I am aware.

Despite the low expectations I must admit that after seeing a few commercials and maybe even one of those Fall TV Show previews, I decided to set Tivo to sang Men In Trees and I just watched it last night.

I must say I was pleasantly surprised and liked it. She has a certain warmth and charm that lends itself to the character she is portaying. Ann Heche is playing a “relationship coach� who found her boyfriend fiancé cheating on her with their friend and while on a speaking engagement trip to Alaska she comes to the conclusion that she is staying there in Alaska.

You see there are 10 men for every woman in Alaska and makes for some funny situations. And seeing that the women are the men up there, it makes for more interesting dramedy scenes. (read more…)