jonathanruano

(2012-05-01 20:13:24)

Don't take this therapy

Someone was way off in deciding to make the TV series "Web Therapy"with Lisa Kudrow as Fiona Wallace (the web therapist). According to thecommercial for this TV series, the performances are apparentlyimprovised, but follow tent poles. I suppose the underlying assumptionfor this improvisation was that the actors were so naturally funny thatyou can have a successful TV series by allowing them to do their ownthing. WRONG! There is not a single joke in this TV series thatactually works, although I frankly had a hard time trying to find (tosay nothing about remembering) specific jokes. The plot lines, if theycan be called that, were boring and predictable. Lisa Kudrow, the leadcharacter, obviously is lost at sea when she has no script. Kudrow mayhave been effective in "Friends" and "Easy A," which both adhered tointelligent scripts, but asking her to improvise comedy (even with tentpoles) was evidently a recipe for disaster. This series was so awful (Ihave no idea where the 6.6/10 came from) that I had to stop watchingthe episodes midway to avoid feeling incredibly bored, depressed andnumb. Put another way, if you had to make a decision between watchingthis TV series and watching Hanna Montana with Miley Cyrus, you wouldhonestly find Hanna Montana more entertaining.

r parker

(2012-05-01 05:01:54)

Lisa Kudrow is one of the funniest woman of this generation

I've never seen FRIENDS (Seriously) - though, in the occasionalsnippets I did manage to see, Lisa Kudrow's performance always stoodout.I watched THE COMEBACK, and, working in that business, I especiallyfound it very spot-on, as to all the problems an actor faces - least ofwhich is talent - including, ageism, and, all the politics behind thescenes.It was sad to see that go, and, only recently got caught up with Ms.Kudrow's latest SHOWTIME series: WEB THERAPY.A wonderfullydysfunctionally hysterical replacement.Ms. Kudrow knows - as, another of my favorites, Mary Tyler Moore - thatyou have to surround yourself with top notch cast members, and, on WEBTHERAPY, she's got everyone from Victor Garber, to Alan Cummings, DanButinsky, Lily Tomlin (as her mother, 'Putsy Hodge'), and a lot more.WEB THERAPY is a very dry, very biting type of comedy series, and Ms.Kudrow's Fiona Wallace is either the most self-absorbed lunatic, or abrilliant manipulator (watch what happens with her awful book), orboth.Either way, Ms. Kudrow's series - an 'in-the-know' viewer delight,should be MUCH better known than it is.