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Herc Beholds The Birth Of ABC’s IN THE MOTHERHOOD!!
I am – Hercules!!
A new sitcom based on a Web series from “Help Me Help You” creators Jennifer Konner and Alexandra Rushfield, “In The Motherhood” stars Cheryl Hines (“Curb Your Enthusiasm”), Megan Mullally (“Will & Grace”) and Jessica St. Clair (Worst Week”) as friends who are also mothers.
Jimmy Fallon’s old SNL partner, Horatio Sanz, is on the show too, and has lost so much weight I barely recognized him. “Veronica Mars” vet Ken Marino, who stars simultaneously on the Starz sitcom “Party Down” is on hand as well, as is Rachael Harris, who just got done with ABC’s earlier motherhood sitcom “Notes From The Underbelly.”
Cheryl Hines is hot and talented but this stillborn sitcom turns out to be grating and woefully maladroit. Happily, it shouldn’t last long enough to sully memories of her work on Larry David’s better, HBO sitcom.
USA Today give it one star (out of four) and says:
… Big Day, Carpoolers, Notes From the Underbelly, In Case of Emergency, Emily's Reasons Why Not — the list of one-camera, vaguely absurdist ABC bombs doesn't have to be exhaustive to be exhausting. And now we get what may be the worst of them all: In the Motherhood, a show so bad that it threatens to take the only potentially viable example of the ABC format, Samantha Who?, down with it. …
The New York Times says:
… It’s an impressive cast and a perfectly good premise, but for some reason, Thursday’s pilot episode is not very funny. …
The Los Angeles Times says:
… worked as a Web series based on real-life stories but not, it would seem, as a television series based on overused stereotypes. …
The Washington Post says:
… is based on a Web series of the same name, but what makes it work is that it's also based on recognizable human behavior -- the warp and woof (and the bow and the wow) of everyday life as lived by three allied moms. Together, they share grievances, experiences and witticisms -- many of them well worth sharing and very well shared. Long story short: These girls are golden.…
The San Francisco Chronicle says:
… even though "In the Motherhood" may have universal appeal, overly familiar premises can lead to lameness …
The Boston Herald says:
… funnier in concept than in execution. …
The Boston Globe says:
… Mullally brings on a welcome bit of subversion. Very welcome, really. "In the Motherhood" is an otherwise disappointing network adaptation of a spikier Web series…
Variety says:
… the result is tonally uneven, too-rarely funny and rehashes material that isn't as relatable as it should be to the average parent. An amusing line occasionally burbles out, but ABC's latest attempt to establish a Thursday comedy beachhead mostly just manages to make the timeslot's usual occupant, "Ugly Betty," look gorgeous by comparison. …
The Hollywood Reporter says:
… Not that the TV version doesn't have its charms: Cheryl Hines ("Curb Your Enthusiasm") and Megan Mullally ("Will & Grace") are blessedly back in series rotation. Unfortunately, they're playing only slightly retooled versions of the characters that made them famous …
8 p.m. Thursday. ABC.
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a real snorefest
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I am glad someone finally agrees with me!!
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I'd still hit it.
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Boy am I glad that they put Ugly Betty on hold to put this crap in its place. What is wrong with ABC? They cancel anything that requires intelligence, like Pushing Daisies, and they keep on putting out more garbage like the Bachelor or Dancing with the HasBeens.
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have produced, this looks shrill and awful. Its too bad that Better Off Ted is getting killed in the ratings because two episodes in, I really like it.
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USA Today is right about ABC. As far as I can tell the only decent sitcoms they have are that Christina Applegate show and the show they borrowed from another network, Scrubs. This new Better Off Ted has a coupla funny bits but isn't gonna work, despite a hot woman or two.
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that gave us Cavemen....is it truly like a sixties Disney movie at ABC, and a chimp is chief of programming?
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He loves this crapfest. Hates good shows, loves bad ones. He's the tv equivalent of Owen Gleiberman.
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So, how'd that work out for Quarterlife?
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isn't he better than this shit?
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... a vagina in his pants.
Seriously. This is Aint it COOL news. Report on stuff like Elm Street, Stargate, Who, Wolverine, Transformers, or anything that geekdom could remotely give a shit about. Don't give us the skinny on what could more or less be Lifetime channel programming.
And, for the record, Cheryl Hines is NOT hot. She's a mildly attractive gen2 Christine Baranski AT BEST. Compared to _actual_ attractive women, she might as well be a methed out Courtney Love. -
And looks like fuckin' Mr. Ed. Not only that, but she has the most grating voice imaginable and is an awful actress, much less comedienne.
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Does that mean Hines is done on Curb Your Enthusiasm?
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Damn well better not be. Even with Larry's "separation" she's the ying to his yang.
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In a strange kind of way. Her voice is a bit shrill too, but for some reason when you put it all together it works, lol!
Hope she has not left CYE... that would be terrible.
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mommy gangbangers, bustin' caps in the babysitter's ass?
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I hope she is gone like Larry's real life wife.
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Wah! Wahhh!! I bet if the great-great-great grandmothers of the women today could hear them complain about giving birth and raising kids, they'd beat the shit out of them and tell them about how hard it really is! I mean, the way women today talk about having children its as if women just started giving birth twenty or thirty years ago. Up till then babies were actually delivered by storks. Also, isn't it kind of a "fuck you" to women today to have the majority of female roles still be mothers?
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Cheryl Hines (who was born on September 21, 1965) is not Hollywood hot. She is no Megan Fox or AnnaLynne McCord. Sorry, but Hines is now 3 years past the mandatory, Hollywod hotness retirement age. Advances in plastic surgery and skin care have made that age 40 limit possible, but after that it is all downhill.
Do I find Cheryl Hnes attractive? Oh, God yes! Even though she is older than me I would "do" her in a minute, and that is about how long it would take. However, to say she is hot by Hollywood standards would be a lie, and I am not a lier. Also, I saw some of the show a few nights ago and it was a typical, unwatchable, shit-sitcom. D.O.A. -
Mar 28, 2009 9:39:27 AM CDT
"not Hollywood hot. She is no Megan Fox or AnnaLynne McCord."
by big jim
That's your litmus test? Sure, they are attractive, in a pre-fab, real-doll kind of way, but hardly the pinnacle of female beauty.
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