From Amazon.com Like its characters, The King of Queens is a unpretentious but utterly dependable sitcom. Kevin James and Leah Remini, as blue-collar couple Doug and Carrie Heffernan, have the kind of chemistry that every sitcom craves (but far too few have). Layered on top of this solid foundation are the bizarre flights of Jerry Stiller as Arthur, Carrie's loud, paranoid, and combustible father.
The second season has no overarching plotlines or recurring themes; it's just a compilation of excellent material, including Doug's ego inflating when a waitress flirts with him; Doug and Carrie squirming when their best friends ask them to be godparents; Doug discovering that Carrie compulsively cheats at games; and a flashback to when they first met. It's the attention to emotional detail that makes the show fly; James and Remini take the most mundane material--say, an argument over where to go for a vacation or how their marriage lacks romance--and turn the many ways in which couples cope into a pugnacious duet. Their sparring not only is funny, but consistently rings true as irrational but oh-so-common human behavior. The show pulls you in all the more because the Heffernans make up just as often as they fight, demonstrating one of the most functional marriages on television. It's meat-and-potatoes comedy, but sometimes nothing else will hit the spot. --Bret Fetzer
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Another great seasonNovember 3, 2006 Rory(Ontario) 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Being a big fan of the comedy of Kevin James, I found the second season of the King of Queens, like the first is hilarious and even funnier than the inaugural season. Kevin James (Doug Heffernen) and Leah Remeni (Carrie Heffernen) have fine-tuned their on screen chemistry, to insure comedic timing is perfect. Leah Remeni, comedically, is undoubtably an incarnation of Lucille Ball (she looks a little like her as well) in many ways...with exception of her biting sarcasm and unbelievable wit when dealing with her scheming, double dealing, husband Doug. Adding to the mix is Jerry Stiller (Arthur)and plays a role in this show it could not be without. His crazed, but disturbingly lucid antics, as Carrie's live-in father bring the show to a new level of hilarity. Spence and Deacon(Doug's friends) play the interesting and sometimes quirky straight men who in their own ways are dysfunctional in either their on-screen personal lives or their relationship to the Heffernen family. Highly recommended.
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