Will ‘Everybody Love’ Raymond’s brother ‘Til Death’?
“Everybody Loves Raymond” was a monster hit that never struck home with me. I thought the show painted women as shrill, men as bumbling, and marriage as a horrible hornet’s nest from which any sane person should flee. Obviously, millions upon millions of viewers disagreed, including my own mother. Will those same millions turn out to see the actor who played Raymond’s brother, Brad Garrett, continuing that image of marriage? That’s what “Til Death” is counting on. Garrett plays Eddie and Joely Fisher plays his wife, Joy, married for decades. Garrett’s character moans about how husbands just want to have fun, but wives want to “walk fun into the woods and shoot it dead.” Laughing yet? Maybe a toilet joke will do it for you, then, there’s at least one of those. Or maybe the premise that a newlywed couple moves in next door to Eddie and Joy, shoving in the face of the gloomy longlyweds all the idealism of a new bride and groom. And of course, the young husband also happens to be the new v
