The title pretty much gives you the premise of Six Degrees - a sextet of New Yorkers have their lives intertwine in ways unexpected and (in some cases) unknown as the living embodiment of the "six degrees of separation" between any two people. What it doesn't do is explain how implausible this set up can get.
For example, take the new friendship of Whitney (Bridget Moynihan) and Laura (Hope Davis). They meet at a nail salon, discover that they both attended the same concert over a decade ago, and now they're BFF. I don't doubt that some sort of relationship can come from this sort of chance meeting, but what they've developed in one or two episodes would, in real life, take months.
I have a similar issue with most of the new connections on the show, to varying degrees. The budding romance between a public defender (Carlos, played by Jay Hernandez) and a former client (Mae, played by Erika Christensen) seems the most normal, while the working relationship between Whitney and the recently dried out photographer Steve (Campbell Scott) is bizarre at best. The individual story lines don't suffer from this that much, and a couple are quite interesting, such as the frosty relationship between limo driver Damian (Dorian Missick) and his thug brother.
But it's all acted pretty well, so if the writing can make better sense out of these relationships I think there's room to improve. Given how badly it's bleeding viewers out of Grey's Anatomy, it had better improve soon.
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