Wednesday, March 26, 2008

The Death of “The Return of Jezebel James”

I missed the first episode (I figured I’d download it later and I knew it wouldn’t matter since they changed a bunch of stuff going into the second epi), but caught the second one...and just absolutely LOATHED it. I thought it was terrible. It was like AS-P only had GG in her and she was going to try to force it on two actresses who just weren’t right doing it. Every time Parker Posey said, “Coco” with that weird pronunciation of hers, I wanted to scream. It sounded pretentious and forced.  “Lorelai” would said “Coco” in that forced way only to make fun of her mother’s friends in the DAR.

I don’t know who to blame the failure on, except that Parker Posey and Lauren Ambrose have been good in everything else they’ve done. In fact, Lauren Ambrose was even okay in this, considering what she had to work with.  Do we blame the Gilmore Girls’ rapid-fire chatter that should only be done by Lauren Graham and to a lesser extent, Alexis Bledel?  The horrendous laugh track?  The farfetched storyline?  The laugh track has worked on other good shows and there have been more farfetched storylines, so it must be the GG chatter.

I was actually embarrassed for Amy Sherman Palladino, the show was that bad. I’m relieved that the show was put out of its misery, so I didn’t have to watch it out of a sense of loyalty, because I truly hated it.  Leigh-Ann hated it, too. We could both tell that we would hate it from the moment Parker Posey started talking in Gilmore-speak, which was from the first sentence out of her mouth. Since the review mentioned that the second show fixed some things that were wrong with the first, I can’t even imagine how much I would’ve hated the first. It’s hard to imagine it could’ve been worse.

So, now that you know that I hated it. How did you feel?

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1. Not only have I not seen it, I haven’t even seen the Gilmore Girls.  Should I?  I would see a show for that cast: Parker Posey and Lauren Ambrose.

   Nancy  on  03/26  at  06:00 PM

2. "Gilmore Girls” was awesome.  We just absolutely loved that show.  I think that if you saw some clips of it, you would probably know if you would like it.  The last season and a half had a lot turmoil behind the camera and it showed in front of the camera, but it was still better than almost anything else on today.

   “Jezebel James” was simply awful.  I wouldn’t watch that second episode again, even if someone paid me, and I’m pretty desperate for money, so that’s telling you something.  Parker Posey was terrible.  Lauren Ambrose was not so bad, and I know that they’ve both been great in other movies/shows.  But Parker Posey’s comedic timing...or rather her inability to say lines written for the snappy, witty, Lauren Graham, just sounded terrible coming out of her.  I feel awful criticizing a good actress so much, but the show sucked.  Plus, her pronouncing her sister’s name, Coco, as “CowCow” was just weirdly pretentious...and it brought the dialog to a grinding halt in my head ever single time she said the name.

    on  03/26  at  08:15 PM

3. I wish my hatred feelings for this show had been as pure and righteous as yours; I mostly hated it, but every once in a while I’d see this tiny glimmer of how it could maybe be really great… eventually. If they, you know, changed almost everything. And that would have compelled me to keep watching forever JUST IN CASE.

   So really, I’m glad it’s gone.

   Were I Amy Sherman-Palladino, I would have some sort of chip installed in Lauren Graham so that she couldn’t wander more than 500 yards away from me when I had a show in production. (I would be kind of a mad-scientist version of Amy Sherman-Palladino, apparently.)

   mercy buttercup  on  03/28  at  05:13 PM

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