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.

 

 

It’s nice to have another Sex in the City when a majority of new shows are either weak sitcoms or overkill of reality show knockoffs.

Men in Trees is refreshing enough and distanced enough from the years when the brilliant Northern Exposure ran that it might just survive. Not as a cult classic, mind you, and with nowhere near the acclaim of Sex in the City, but with quiet, humble dignity and a cutesy turn of phrase or Heche nose every once in a while. And it doesn’t hurt that some of the men in the town are just as sweet to look at and watch.

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