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Oh laugh track mediocrity
how I forgot you still existed. Somewhere beneath the
brilliant comedies that are more reliant on the
audiences intelligence to laugh at the sharp comedy,
here we have more scripted comedy fare in front of a
live studio audience who are prone to laughing at
whatever is muttered by our cast members. With a set
comprised of a couch in the middle of the living room,
"The New Adventures of Old Christine" is that television
series that has lasted for more than one season riding
on pure luck and its feminine mystique. You can usually
tell you're in for a fun ride when the opening of a
television show begins with a soulful vocalizing by a
female jazz artist. That lets everyone know this show is
only for the women, thus the man's instant response is
to groan and lean his head back.
That was me. Hate to follow
the cliche, but how can you not with a series that is
solely for the women and takes every advantage to remind
us of that? "The New Adventures of Old Christine" also
suffers because I had no idea what was going on from the
outset, and I just didn't care enough to do the
research. "The New Adventures of Old Christine" is that
cliche women show where the women are all riffing at one
another and talking about relationships and sex where
the humor gets edgy enough to keep conservatives
enticed, but safe enough not to offend anyone.
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Julia Louis Dreyfus
sucks the life out of the screen with her rancid
Christine, a middle aged woman now seemingly on the
verge of sleeping with her new boyfriend for the
first time who happens to be her boss. I'm assuming.
So we get support from Wanda Sykes, who plays...
Wanda Sykes. She throws one-liners Christine's way
every two minutes while the only few remaining male
co-stars do nothing but re-enforce the male
stereotype explaining how the sex door is never
closed for the man. If it's closed there's a latch,
if the latch is shut, there's always the sex doggy
door. Yes, these are the jokes people. But the
audience seemed to find it hysterical beyond belief.
Meanwhile "The New Adventures of Old Christine"
involves wacky mishaps when it's not running down
the same old tropes we've seen with chick sitcoms
including Christine's confrontation with a dead
body, and a guest spot from Jason Alexander visiting
from purgatory, that is about as funny as that Jim
Belushi sitcom. Nevertheless, the show has been
cancelled and will likely be played on Lifetime here
in America, for all of America's women to laugh
along with other female stereotypes. Ah, "Seinfeld."
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