Country Comfort

Country Comfort was an American comedy series starring Katharine McPhee and Eddie Cibrian that ran for a single season on Netflix in 2021.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The sheer number of contrived coincidences needed to even get the main plot going: Bailey being dumped by her boyfriend, booted from their band, then her car breaks down, then her phone runs out of battery... all of that to lead her to the house where she's hired as a nanny for literally no reason other than the children suddenly deciding that she is their nanny now.
 * 2) Tuck is portrayed like a standard-issue dumb jock who only cares about looking good and getting girls. He thinks nothing of ruining Bailey's video shoot to chase after a female camera operator even though he is ill, or kissing their neighbor Jo in spite of Brody obviously having a crush on her.
 * 3) Beau acts in a hypocritical manner in the sixth episode, when he lies to the kids to spend the night with Summer... right after having Cassidy grounded for two weeks for lying to him.
 * 4) The laugh track is overused, as if it needed to mask punchlines that just don't land.
 * 5) Simply put, Bailey has no business working as anyone's nanny. At no point of the show is it more obvious than when she runs into her ex-boyfriend Boone and completely forgets about the concert she was going to attend with Cassidy, causing her to entirely miss it out of frustration.
 * 6) Boone is portrayed as an incredibly fickle person, who is always very quick to dump bandmates and girlfriends on a whim, making viewers wonder what Bailey ever saw in him in the first place.

Good Qualities

 * 1) The show at least provides time for Katharine McPhee to show her singing talent.
 * 2) The cameo by LeAnn Rimes was excellently done.
 * 3) Summer provides one of the few genuinely funny moments in the series by forgetting that she was supposed to lip-sync to Bailey during Beau's birthday and launching into an impromptu encore that exposes that she can't sing.

Trivia

 * During LeAnn Rimes's cameo as herself, Beau remarks that she looks a lot like his late wife. Beau is portrayed by Rimes's real-life husband Eddie Cibrian.

Reception
Country Comfort was met with a mixed reception from critics, with some deriding it as too cliché-ridden or too raunchy for a family show, while others praised Katharine McPhee's musical performances during the episodes. It holds a 57% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 6.8/10 rating on IMDb.