Taking a classic (if outdated) approach to the romantic comedy genre, ABC's Manhattan Love Story, debuting Tuesday, unabashedly touts the old adage "Men are from Mars, women are from Venus." The series opens with our leading man strolling down a crowded city street thinking to himself which women he'd have sex with (all of them), while our wide-eyed ingenue walks down the same street gushing over expensive purses... I mean, yeah, okay, it's pretty boilerplate stuff, but there's a hook: we also hear the two main characters' unfiltered, internal monologues, which, as you might expect, could not be more polarizing. The question is, does that hook actually work? Well...
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