I thought it started out OK, but kind of slowed down. I could have done without the weird new roommate, but maybe it will get better.
The weird roommate is the only good part of the story. Other than pretty women cavorting.
It was OK - but too bad Chelsea is too old to play Chelsea - that would have been funnier.
Will watch a few more to see how it progresses, but the pilot episode was really just “OK”.
What’s funny is that Laura Prepon (31) is only 5 years younger than Chelsea… But Chelsea looks a hell of a lot older than 36.
I thought Chelsea’s acting was pretty stiff, but Laura Prepon was looking good.
Holy crap, Chelsea is a few months younger than I but looks like my older sister (by six years). Yikes. Anyhow, I watched it, and will give it a few more shots. Whitney is growing on me, just a little, perhaps it is a better fit for “Funny Chicks Sitcom NBC Wednesdays” rather than “Filmed Comedy/Faux Documentary NBC Thursdays.”
I still want Prepon to give up the whole blonde thing. Donna Pinciotti will always be a redhead to me.
Chelsea Handler is 36? Them’s been rough years, I guess.
We watched it and thought it was kind of crap, actually. I don’t think either of us laughed out loud even once.
Whitney, OTOH, was actually hilarious for a change.
I watched it. I am a fan of Prepon (although the only role she is apparently capable of playing is Donna Pinciotti) so just for that it’s OK. Otherwise - just a formulaic fairly boring sitcom.
And yes, Whitney is improving. Or maybe I just find her mugging for the camera cute.
Total crapfest. It might make one season.
Is she still effin’ the Head of “E!”? It might make it a bit longer.
I think Whitney can be good. When I watched it, I kept having flashbacks to when Roseanne first premiered; in that the material will be funny once she learns to act; and not perform stand up. It’s was like she’d say something; then smile at her own humor. Very weird.
Regarding Chelsea; I wanted to like it; because I like Laura Prepon; but it was just too many drunk/slut jokes. If you have to rely on cheap sex jokes for your humor; maybe you’re not that funny.
Apparently, that’s Chelsea’s life story. Drunk slut stand up comic.
Didn’t watch it. But from the commercials I am curious (but not enough to watch) does Handler ever actually act as opposed to sounding like she’s reading a joke off the back of a cereal box while distracted by the TV?
Yeah, it added an extra layer–for a total of 1.5 layers–to the “grossed out about red-haired guys” gag.
Yeah, poor Chelsea’s been rode hard and put away wet.
I know I have (too) high expectations, but I was still surprised at how typically ‘network sitcom’ pedestrian, ah, just plain bad it was. A chuckle here & there, maybe, but it just reminded me why I don’t ever watch network sitcoms. It’s so self-referencing ironic comparing something like this to Chelsea Lately, one of the funniest shows since Larry Sanders.
And am I alone in something? I hit play on my TiVo and, less than ten seconds in, I had to hit pause because -
**>>>> I heard a fucking laugh track ?!?!? <<<< **
Are you kidding me?! A laugh track?! I realized that most of the rest was in front of a live audience, but still. A fucking laugh track!? What, is it suddenly 1966 or something? I was expecting a Chesterfield commercial next.
Sorry but it’s fucking 2012. The very idea of a laugh track today I just find incredibly insulting.
Maybe Prepon will be able to swing Mila Kunis as a guest star. That I’d watch.
More likely they get Topher Grace, though.
They could do a crossover with ‘Two and a Half Men’.
I read the book a few years ago when it came out and remember being disappointed that the title was by far the best part.
(The title of the book of course was 'Are you there, Vodka? It’s me, Chelsea", and hence with the change of the title for the show they’ve wrecked even that aspect)