"Episodes," the new Showtime series, is about high hopes and crushed dreams. Moral and artistic compromises. Relationships pushed to the breaking point.
In short, it's about the television industry.
And it's a comedy.
It's also a return to the TV screen, after several years' absence, by Matt LeBlanc, who, for 11 smash seasons, played would-be actor Joey Tribbiani on "Friends," then put in two more seasons on its misfired spinoff, "Joey," which ended in 2006.
Now, on "Episodes" (which premieres Sunday on Showtime at 9:30 p.m. EST), LeBlanc is doing a brave, even rash thing: making himself the show's biggest punch line and possibly digging himself deeper into the real-life career dilemma his show portrays.
LeBlanc plays a fictitious TV star (and "Friends" alumnus) named Matt LeBlanc who, saddled by the stereotype of Joey, is somewhat of a joke in an industry that can't see casting him in anything but Joey-like parts. Meanwhile, he's held hostage by an audience that doesn't care to draw the distinction between Matt and Joey
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