"What About Brian" was cancelled after one season and now, with the power of DVD, you can watch all 25 episodes because, well, why wouldn't you want to spend fourteen or so hours watching a television show America has already taken a collective dump on?

I suspect America can only take so much of the beautiful people and "What About Brian" lost the game of numbers. Basically, if every character in "What About Brian" got an objective look at their life and was asked to summarize, they'd come up with this: "I'm rich, I'm beautiful, but I've got problems with my marriage/sex life/beautiful girlfriend/ability to commit/getting laid too much.

Brian (Barry Watson) is odd man out in his group of friends, meaning that he's single and all his friends are coupled off. Brian's horrible dilemma is that he appears to be able to bed any beautiful woman that walks in front of him, but he's in love with his best friend Adam's (Matthew Davis) woman, Marjorie (Sarah Lancaster). Adam is a lawyer and Marjorie is a doctor, which is vomitous, of course. The other two couples in this group of friends are Dave and Deena (Rick Gomez, Amanda Detmer), who've been married for 13 years and have three kids and who now aren't feeling so sexy for each other. This leads Deena to suggest they have an open marriage, which works out great, of course. Then there's Angelo (Raoul Bova) and Nicole (Rosanna Arquette). Angelo is Italian. Nicole is hot, but older. They're trying to have kids. In one episode, Nicole's main problem is that her Mercedes makes dinging noises.

So for about the first eight episodes or so, Brian walks around in mental agony trying to figure out whether he should tell Marjorie he loves her or not and when Marjorie reciprocates a little, she spends time in agony wondering whether she should be with Adam or Brian. That Brian even considers interfering with his supposed BFF and his fiancŽ makes one wonder if Brian has a brain and why he can't wander off to his closet of choice and jack off until he's gotten it out of his system like most men who think their best friend's girlfriend is hot.

As this is seasons one and two, the second season seems to take on a different character as the producers undoubtedly realized after the first six episodes that they were in real trouble. First, the show introduces the worst opening song I've ever heard. Every time I hear the thing I want to ram my head through the television. Another weird thing that drives me nuts is that since this is from the producers of "Alias", and I presume, "Felicity", we start seeing all those character actors from "Felicity" like Amy Jo Johnson and Amanda Foreman. There's a reason we only ever see them on these shows. They always play the same characters.

"Felicity" meets "Thirtysomething" - that's exactly what this is and that's not a good thing.