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Oct. 7th, 2007
Exes and Ohs
Oct. 7th, 2007 08:24 pmI downloaded the pilot of Exes and Ohs off of iTunes (it was a freebie) out of sheer curiosity. I hadn't heard of Logo before, but it's apparently a cable channel that caters to the LGBT community.
Exes and Ohs is executive produced by, created by and starring Michelle Paradise, and is based on her short film The Ten Rules: A Lesbian Survival Guide. The set-up is pretty basic and familiar: protagonist is a sentimental romantic as opposed to her promiscuous commitment-phobic best friend. She is also friends with a younger, smart-ass girl and a loving couple. The protagonist also occasionally breaks the fourth wall to talk to the audience, which seems to be de rigeur these days, and it mixes the yuks with emotional matters. The first episode involves Jennifer (Paradise) trying to move on from her ex-lover a year after their break-up, something which isn't made easier by the fact that she's attending said ex-lover's wedding.
In short, there is absolutely nothing remarkable about this sitcom, except that it stars lesbians. I mean, really. I'm all for hot girl on girl action as the next guy, and Michelle Paradise is obviously a talented comedy writer (although her delivery reminds me too much of Ellen DeGeneres), the script has heart, and the direction is pretty decent. But if you swapped out everyone with heterosexuals, it'd disappear into the mix. I'm just not sure what the actual hook is, once you take away the lesbianism. If it offered any insight at all, it's that lesbians go through the same emotional mind-games and travails as everyone else, and I'm not sure that's actually news, nor if it can sustain a series.
My LGBT friends may like it better than I do (which is why I'm mentioning it). As it was, I liked it, I even laughed, but at the end of the day, it was pretty generic. So, not a show I'm going to go out of my way to look, or pay for. Let me know if it does anything different.
Oh, as a side note, avoid The Big Bang Theory like the plague. Because it'll give you plague. Not kidding. I felt so unclean after watching it, and I turned it off after ten minutes.
Exes and Ohs is executive produced by, created by and starring Michelle Paradise, and is based on her short film The Ten Rules: A Lesbian Survival Guide. The set-up is pretty basic and familiar: protagonist is a sentimental romantic as opposed to her promiscuous commitment-phobic best friend. She is also friends with a younger, smart-ass girl and a loving couple. The protagonist also occasionally breaks the fourth wall to talk to the audience, which seems to be de rigeur these days, and it mixes the yuks with emotional matters. The first episode involves Jennifer (Paradise) trying to move on from her ex-lover a year after their break-up, something which isn't made easier by the fact that she's attending said ex-lover's wedding.
In short, there is absolutely nothing remarkable about this sitcom, except that it stars lesbians. I mean, really. I'm all for hot girl on girl action as the next guy, and Michelle Paradise is obviously a talented comedy writer (although her delivery reminds me too much of Ellen DeGeneres), the script has heart, and the direction is pretty decent. But if you swapped out everyone with heterosexuals, it'd disappear into the mix. I'm just not sure what the actual hook is, once you take away the lesbianism. If it offered any insight at all, it's that lesbians go through the same emotional mind-games and travails as everyone else, and I'm not sure that's actually news, nor if it can sustain a series.
My LGBT friends may like it better than I do (which is why I'm mentioning it). As it was, I liked it, I even laughed, but at the end of the day, it was pretty generic. So, not a show I'm going to go out of my way to look, or pay for. Let me know if it does anything different.
Oh, as a side note, avoid The Big Bang Theory like the plague. Because it'll give you plague. Not kidding. I felt so unclean after watching it, and I turned it off after ten minutes.