Monday, March 17, 2008

So unimportant, but Miss Edith had to say something...

...so Miss Edith is, you might have guessed, a Parker Posey fan.
As such, she was psyched to watch "The Return of Jezebel James," which had its premiere on the Fox network a few nights ago. Miss E knew it was gonna be a dog, but you know what? We watched it anyhow, Notarius and I, and while he just thought it was silly, I found myself thinking, "Not only is this silly, it's just so badly put together!"
Is anyone going to rally around this ill-conceived show before it gets canceled?
My god!
The laugh track! The strange alterations between episode 1 and episode 2 that make no sense -- like the details relating to Our Heroine's love life -- or the details about the publishing house where she works, which is, suddenly, HarperCollins?!?

And, I have to wonder, exactly where does Our Heroine live that she can, as an editor, afford that apartment? I mean, surely the average children's book editor -- or children's book packager, which really seems to be a more apt description of Posey's character -- doesn't earn enough to get an apartment like that... and yet, I don't see any tv-style indications that she's supposed to come from a wealthy family... so what gives, people?

I am sure that none of my readers care about this, but I wanted to vent about it nonetheless. It's been eating at me for days, and they say that keeping anger bottled up inside causes ulcers... and I've got enough tsuris these days without developing ulcers...

Let's go watch "Party Girl" again, shall we?