Wednesday, June 16, 2010
HOT OR NOT: New sitcom Hot In Cleveland has gotten press because it's TV Land's first original scripted show and because it features Betty White (in full-on "smutty old lady" mode, who's in maybe 3 minutes of the episode). What's remarkable about it is that it feels like the script was written in 1987, and then pulled out of a drawer, had a few "contemporary" jokes added to it (references to Google and internet porn, for instance, and an oddly untimely Megan Fox joke), and then filmed. Admittedly, the material is stedfastly mediocre, but the cast is made up of consummate pros (Peri GilpinJane Leeves in particular knows how to sell a joke, and has the one character that's got more than one dimension), and while it's not going to join the ranks of any of the leading ladies' prior sitcoms (not even Just Shoot Me!), it's diverting enough for a half hour in the programming-light summer.
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Peri Gilpin?
ReplyDeleteMixed up my Frasier supporting players. Of course, I mean Jane Leeves. (Though Peri Gilpin also knows how to sell a joke.)
ReplyDeleteI'm so resistant to the multi-camera sitcom that I can't fathom giving this a shot. I only started watching BBT last year, and I still get annoyed with its cadences.
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