You can take the lawyer out of corporate law but you can't take the corporate law out of the girl. Or maybe it's the other way around, maybe? But if you haven't caught on to one of the funniest new comedy series on cable, you need to. USA Network's "Benched" is a home run of a hit.
This week's episode has Nina dealing with the downsizing from here corporate style living to a more modern style of living. Jake takes Nina to an apartment that's on sale. She looks around and has a bit of a reaction of how small it is and asked if any elves lived in there.
Later on, Burt, the boss of Nina and others at the public defender's office, is asking for someone to give a speech at a fundraiser. When no one raised their hands, Carlos volunteer to do it. Phil wanted to be there but has another commitment...coaching kids basketball.
When Nina learns more and more about it, she thinks that this would be the best way of getting people to forgive her and to get her back to corporate law. She makes a plea for her boss to do it. Jack see's what she's doing but tries it. The next day, Jack gets news that they turn down Nina's request to give the speech, because of her freak out and breaking Elton John's vast.
Soon enough, Nina goes to see Debbie, who was the woman who took her job and had her freak out, and talked to her about given the speech. After to agree to whatever she wanted her to do, Nina was going to give the speech.
Nina goes back to the office and tells everyone. When Carlos hears about it, he's disappointed and Phil reads what he was going to say, even if it is the rough draft of it. After Jake hears it, he's happy that Nina was going to give it.
At the fundraising party, Carlos, Cheryl and Jake meet up. Jake wants to know what it takes to get some crab cakes around here. Then Nina comes in and gives him some. Nina, who's excited and dresses up beautiful but way over confident, gets pulled over by Debbie to meet Maria, the one who's given the fundraiser.
After making a but of a fool of herself, she goes over her speech and soon Phil comes. He mentions that his team was losing and thought that he should leave them and come to the party. As they talked, Trent comes in and talks to both of them. Nina was in shock and soon found out why he's here. His fiance is Maria. As the party moved on, Maria gave the opening speech and mentioned that Trent, is the guy that has kept her steady and happy. They met while he was still with Nina and it freaks her out completely.
As soon as Maria was down, Nina gives her speech and as she give it, she starts freaking out bit by bit. As she tries to get herself together, she really does go out. She mentions that the only reason why she's doing this was for her to get back to corporate law but after talking and babbling on, its not looking good at all.
Well at least she got some claps from Jake, Cheryl and Oscar. So some people did like the speech.
As Nina sits at an empty table, Phil comes over, holding two drinks. He gives her one and they talk. Soon Cheryl comes in and talks about how the guy Rich who's been given her drinks all night, wasn't trying to get her lose and rich, but he was just a waiter.
Nina does come to terms and that she's a public defender. The next day as she's getting things into her new apartment, Phil comes in and has his basketball team come in and help out. Nina doesn't believe that it's really his basketball team and that he just picked them up somewhere. She mentions that one of them look sick and Jake laughs and ask what is wrong with her. With a laugh and a smile, Nina tells him that she does not know, she's broken.
I'm really enjoying this series. With only two episodes in, it's in my favorite new shows on the season. The characters on this show is just so good. Coupe is amazing as Nina. I really enjoy watching Maria Bamford's character these last two episodes as Cheryl. She's just funny and crazy but I think she means well, I think.
Next week episode deals with Nina being booked into jail. How she goes to jail is something that you might not want to miss.
You can catch "Benched" Tuesday nights at 10:30/9:30pm on USA Network.
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