Annaleigh Ashford doesn't deliver her B Positive dialogue so much as she sings it, turning moments of the new CBS sitcom into almost a multi-cam musical focused on Adelaide from Guys and Dolls or some archetypal equivalent.
This is only a good thing, because Ashford is, after all, a Tony-winning musical theater star and her gifts with melodic phrasing border on unparalleled (and, as any viewer of Showtime's Masters of Sex knows, Ashford is an adroit dramatic actress as well).
In the two episodes of B Positive sent to critics, I got multiple laughs out of Ashford's delivery of lines from Marco Pennette's scripts, which, while not conspicuous groaners, probably wouldn't have been funny under neutral circumstances.
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