My friend one day was going off on how bad ‘Whitney’ was. I told him I hadn’t seen it, but she was decent on the Roasts (and the eyes), and I saw Chris D’Elia (who plays the boyfriend, and always looks like he needs a shower) featured on a 2011 episode of Comedy Central Presents and he was hilarious. My friend then sheepishly admitted he hadn’t really watched it, only ‘caught a little bit of it.’ So being the alpha I am, I made him watch it with me.
…and it was okay. As the southerners might say, it was “tol’able”. A couple chuckles here and there (you laugh more around people, but it’s still genuine), some eye-rolls at other things but it wasn’t a completely wreck, nor a waste of time.
I agree with the others who have said the boyfriend (Alex according to imdb, just doesn’t stick for some reason) is the best part. I also agree that the relationship between Whitney and Alex feels way more natural than anything else on the show. Their interactions and the way they talk to each other are great; they seem like a couple that would actually have sex off screen. And that wouldn’t be too bad to watch, either.
Watched one episode of 2BG. (Sort of. Used the FF button a bit.) That was really awful. I can see why CBS put it on Monday night. The museum of predictable sitcoms.
So NBC can dump it and keep Community on the schedule, right?
I disagree. He needs a shower, shave, and a haircut. His greasy-looking hair is so repulsive, IMHO, that I don’t know how the viewer is supposed to take his character seriously as anything other than a portrayal of a homeless person. Personally, I find it extremely jarring every time I see him on the show.
+1. I tried watching Seinfeld because I loved his stand-up but I could not stand the other cast members.
Assuming “BBT” = Big Bang Theory; it’s one of the few reasons I miss satTV. However, I recently discovered the CBS page that shows whole eps, so I’m good.
ROTFLMAO!
I don’t know why, but “Whitney,” while not my new favorite-of-all-time show, I find occasionally funny. I do find the main characters to be fairly real. Which is more than I can say for “Community.”
I thought it was sad because it seemed to me that Alex feels that if they ever do talk and she says she doesn’t wank kids, he’ll have to leave her and Whitney realized that and now has to weigh her desire to be kidfree against her desire to maintain the relationship with Alex.
While I appreciate the occasional efforts to dress Whitney up all slutty, her compulsive need to make her boyfriend jump through her circus hoops of flaming insanity wore thin.
I only mentioned it because you felt there was closure to end the series here and I feel that in my mind the Whitney/Alex relationship would be a total downer. I’m thinking they’re setting up for a series finale Talk and someone’s gonna Leave Forever.
Yes, but never one as willfully and pointlessly irritating as Whitney (or if I got that vibe early on, I bailed before immersing myself in her insanity). I know there are indeed crazy women, but I’ll assume that most women are reasonably rational.
Frankly, the boyfriend’s compliance is another negative point for the show. That he doesn’t simply and flatly declare at any point “No. This is stupid. I’m not participating further in your obsessive-compulsive delusions and competitive roleplaying games.”
Ah. You’re single. So am I. Seriously, “crazy woman” is redundant. (I’m not saying that men are any saner, but at least it is an insanity that passes for normal.)
Psh, my generation doesn’t get married. She’s neither rich (sounds upper middle class but nothing to get her a sitcom) nor well connected. She was on Chelsea Lately and Chelsea handler came right out and said “you fucked someone to get your shows”. So did handler, of course, but Cummings looked stunned (and outed).
So she fucked her way into two shows.
That said, I like her boyfriend and her spastic older friend on the show. I watch it for them alone.
ROTFLMAO!