While viewers and critics will tell you that Partners failed to gain any traction, rode out on clichés, over-acting, silly premises, and an utter lack of smart writing, it's these things that I loved in Partners. I felt that it took gay clichés and ran with them, it drew a lot on traditional verbal comedy, there was a lot of over the top gesturing from Urie and Krumholtz, but all of it came together in each episode to make me genuinely laugh.

Somehow, the craziness fit together, and it worked for me. It's too bad that it didn't work for others, and Partners ended up being cancelled a few episodes in, with no one understanding that it was Partners' goal from the beginning to be over-the-top, to be clichéd. It wasn't trying to change stereotypes, or to reinvent the wheel, or to be the gay/straight equivalent of Psych, or... It was just trying to be funny, and if you let it be, you'd discover that it was.