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Review: Love Bites 1×1

Love Bites on NBC

In the US: Thursdays, 10/9c, NBC

To cut a long story short, “…and so does this show,” an anthology of love stories in the same vein as Valentine’s Day, Love Actually and He’s Just Not That Into You.

My God it’s awful. Painful to watch. Clichéd, badly written. Ugh. But then given it was NBC’s back-up for its back-up for its back-up in case some of its Fall shows were bad, what were we all expecting?

Here’s a clip followed by – just for laughs – the trailer for the pilot episode, which had virtually an entirely different cast and a completely different set of storylines.


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