Opinions: New Adventures of Old Christine
Apr-28,2007 Filed in: OPINIONS
TV:
New Adventures of Old Christine
I saw that Julia Louise-Dreyfus won an Emmy for this show and realized that it had been on for a whole season without me knowing. Jill always says that Julia (who I have a hard time not calling Elaine) would play her in her bio-pic. I always hoped that one of these post-Seinfeld shows would work but each one so far failed because once you are George Costanza you are always George Costanza. Maybe this one would be different. Jill and I finally sat down to give it a try after having our TiVo track down an episode. If it was good we wanted to catch this whole season. We both wanted to stop watching and delete it from the TiVo before the first commercial break. We tried giving it a few more minutes after fast-forwarding through the commercials but I started thinking of all of the things I would rather be doing like clipping my toenails, washing the dishes, listening to a Counting Crows live CD or water torture. To be fair – it was only one half of one episode but there was something about the jokes, the acting and the laugh track that made hitting the delete button an easy decision. I think that the laugh track had cued me to laughter at least 18 times in the time we watched but I wasn’t anywhere in the vicinity of humored – and I was really trying to be. I guess after watching Arrested Development and The Office (British and American) I am just not used to the whole canned laughter thing. Maybe if I had watched a few episodes of the sitcom with Charlie Sheen in it I would have been better prepared. I can say that Elaine was good in it despite the bad script but I still wouldn’t want to watch Daniel Day Lewis in Snakes on a Plane. Wait. Maybe I would.
RATING: 1 Gully
I saw that Julia Louise-Dreyfus won an Emmy for this show and realized that it had been on for a whole season without me knowing. Jill always says that Julia (who I have a hard time not calling Elaine) would play her in her bio-pic. I always hoped that one of these post-Seinfeld shows would work but each one so far failed because once you are George Costanza you are always George Costanza. Maybe this one would be different. Jill and I finally sat down to give it a try after having our TiVo track down an episode. If it was good we wanted to catch this whole season. We both wanted to stop watching and delete it from the TiVo before the first commercial break. We tried giving it a few more minutes after fast-forwarding through the commercials but I started thinking of all of the things I would rather be doing like clipping my toenails, washing the dishes, listening to a Counting Crows live CD or water torture. To be fair – it was only one half of one episode but there was something about the jokes, the acting and the laugh track that made hitting the delete button an easy decision. I think that the laugh track had cued me to laughter at least 18 times in the time we watched but I wasn’t anywhere in the vicinity of humored – and I was really trying to be. I guess after watching Arrested Development and The Office (British and American) I am just not used to the whole canned laughter thing. Maybe if I had watched a few episodes of the sitcom with Charlie Sheen in it I would have been better prepared. I can say that Elaine was good in it despite the bad script but I still wouldn’t want to watch Daniel Day Lewis in Snakes on a Plane. Wait. Maybe I would.
RATING: 1 Gully