Comedy Central's latest attempt at holding viewers after "South Park" in a post-"Reno 911" world is a longshot. And by "longshot," I mean "not a snowball's chance in hell of lasting more than four weeks". Mark my words. Karma is truly a bitch, especially when you cancel one of the best and longest-running shows your network has ever put on the air.

"Secret Girlfriend" plays out like a single-player videogame, with the show's first-person viewpoint putting the audience in the shoes of the protagonist.  While dealing with an ex-girlfriend on the outer limits of complete insanity and well-meaning goofball roommates distracting him from a hot new girl who seems surprisingly normal, the center of the show (you) is simply hanging on for dear life to everything happening around him. 

The narrative is driven in part by a series of text-message volleys between the hero (you) and the two women he's juggling: Mandy (Alexis Krause), the batshit nightmare ex who's still got the extra house key, and Jessica (Sara E.R. Fletcher), who clearly likes him, based on the way she keeps leaning in toward the camera.

Phil (Derek Miller) and Sam (Michael Blaiklock), the enthusiastic slacker friends (one's a poor man's Jonah Hill, the other could be a fat Wilson cousin), create webcam videos for the hero to keep the interaction fresh, but only succeed to a point. After ten minutes of fratty acts and ruminations on the life of subtly-misogynistic twentysomethings while gorging on strip club buffet food, I was ready to change the channel. The two guys are precisely as annoying as the dudes you couldn't get rid of back in the dorms.

Expanding this web production wasn't the best idea. It's got all the charm of a beer commercial, while trying to sell itself as a romcom for guys. Jay Rondot and Ross Novie have a vision built for viral visual gags, not a TV series to follow "South Park," as so many failed shows have tried to do in the past.