It's a breezy watch with a casually zany hangout energy, and it hits on some touchy subjects without getting too deep with them. It's tough to talk about money sometimes, but the Home Economics crew finds a way to make it almost fun.
ABC's Home Economics has a canny central idea and a game cast, and though its first two episodes lack a certain surefootedness, there is potential there.
Audiences who are working in miserable pinch-penny circumstances seem not to enjoy seeing it on TV at home, too. That won't be a problem for Home Economics, which fails entirely on its own demerits.
