[Aside: I posted a clip of this post as my Facebook status and found out that one of my friends is a “close acquaintance” with the writer/producer of the show. She says she’s having trouble getting into it too… thankthegoodlord. Close one.]
… ly awkward. Does anyone else watch this show? It drives me crazy. It doesn’t drive Lord Bessie quite as crazy, so I *let* her watch it with the provision that I be allowed to mock it the entire time. It’s honestly almost too great a task. I’m pretty sure everyone on that show has diarrhea of the mouth. Stop talking!! Almost every scene involves someone saying something either inappropriate or unnecessary and most definitely something they’ll regret. I’m at full cringe alert the entire time.
On top of that, I find nothing appealing about Kate, the former teenage mother cum 30-something radio personality. (This is somewhat upsetting since I was a huge fan of Shiri Appleby in Roswell
Normal sentence: Lux and I need to keep working on trusting each other.
Kate’s sentence: Lux and I, we need to keep working on trusting each other. (Usually there’s either a “you know” or an “ok”, or both, somewhere in there as well.)
It’s like she’s making introductions before she says what she wants to say. (Worse, it seems to be catching, because the other characters have also occasionally taken to this style of speaking.)
As a whole, I would possibly be able to overlook these annoying grammatical crutches – which is huge for me – except that she has nothing else to recommend her. She can’t decide between her practically-perfect-in-every-way boyfriend/fiancé/husband and her liquid brown-eyed, tall drink of water baby daddy, Baze, so she just tortures them both... thereby torturing me. She has practically no natural instincts but rather reacts to everything, uncensored. This then results in unnecessary high drama and her predictable apology. (I’m throwing up in my mouth right now. She is currently ONCE AGAIN sharing her intimate personal issues with the wrong person.)
Meanwhile, the daughter Lux who is understandably more mature than her peers (and parents) due to her sad formative years spent in the foster care system, is forced to be the voice of reason in nearly every crisis. But hey, let’s not forget she’s still a kid. Just now, her English teacher admitted he can’t stop thinking about her and suggested they strip to their underwear so he can teach her to swim. This while the rest of the group – students, teachers, her PARENTS, etc. – are merely a stone’s throw away eating dinner around a campfire. We’re meant to be rooting for them I suspect, but all I can think is, “Dude. She’s a child. Resist!” Inevitably, as they succumbed to temptation and kissed, they suddenly noticed someone lurking in the woods. Shocker. Didn’t see that coming at all.
As for Baze, well, he’s a doll but he’s also a man whore. The guy just can’t keep it in his pants. Worse, until recently, every woman that got caught in his crosshairs had some connection to Kate – relative, in-law, boss, what-have-you. Are there no other women in the world? He’s a friggin’ bartender for crying out loud. Well, it looks like he’s finally broken that trend anyway. Now he’s moved on to his boss. Yeeeeah… no problems there.
My friend with the connections to the show suggested that maybe she was just too old for the WB. A valid point. It may simply be time for me to pass the baton and let the next generation grow tired of these standard formulas. Simultaneously, I’ve managed to grab the baton from the generation before me obliging me to mock them incessantly. Looks like I’m equal to the task.
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