Suburgatory
ABC, Wednesdays 8:30/7:30 Central
Sep 28, 2011
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It doesn’t take more than two seconds to piece together the two worlds that inspire Suburgatory. Within the first minute of the pilot, a resentful teen stomps into a suburban beauty-queen-infested town where it’s hard to decide which is more well-manicured: the housewives’ expansive front lawns or their daughters’ hands. It’s any city girl’s purgatory. But 16-year-old Tessa (Jane Levy) is stuck there, after her father George (Jeremy Sisto of Law & Order) finds condoms in her bedroom. Being an overly-paranoid single father, George moves them out of New York City and into the burbs. Being your typical sarcastic teenager, Tessa wastes not a minute before making her first snarky remark about their new house: “What color would you call that? Circus peanut?”
Things only get worse for the tomboy-cool Tessa on her first day of school, when two of her classmates look at her combat boots and blankly ask her if she’s a lesbian. To her dismay, the guidance counselor buddies her up with dull, pompous Dalia (Carly Chaikin, dressing the part of Mean Girls’ Regina George), only to find that her father has already cozied up to Dalia’s mother Dallas (Cheryl Hines), a pretentious-yet-sweet Southern Belle with huge hair. The quips come quick, but the comedy is overly exaggerated, begging for reaction. Why even try, when Mean Girls executed the same shtick so perfectly the first time around? (www.abc.go.com/shows/suburgatory)
Author rating: 6/10
Average reader rating: 5/10
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October 17th 2011
3:57am
sheesh. there are so many awful, unfunny shows. this one is actually pleasant, entertaining, and funny. it’s not re-inventing the wheel but its fun to watch. not every show can be freaks and geeks and breaking bad. this show is really enjoyable. this is such a cynical review. i like mean girls and this. they aren’t mutually exclusive.
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