James Van Der Beek as Himself - Apartment 23 on ABC

are you not putting the y in her name like for political reasons or what

― goole, Wednesday, April 11, 2012 11:30 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i put enough y's in her name above to make up for any omissions below

I will continue to watch this as it was fine; actually it was reminiscent of my reaction to Happy Endings before they hit their stride, so if this finds a groove I think it will kill

I also think people are completely misreading the thesis of the show if they think the pilot blows it; a show about a woman torturing her stupid roommate would get very tired very quickly, whereas a show where the "mean girl" learns how to relate to another woman while the wide-eyed innocent shows she isn't as wide-eyed or innocent as she appears may not be "zomg ORIGINAL" but it at least has someplace to go where you aren't automatically cast in the position of despising one of the leads for either their rampant, unrelenting meanness or their mind-boggling, irritating stupidity.

yeah totally

i guess i'd be more kind if i didn't find 75% of the jokes terrible (to be fair, the other 25% were hilarious).

I have no intention of plugging the antenna back in and watching this, but that ratio is a good one for every sitcom ever that's below the dozen or so classics.

in a lot of ways it falls flat but there's a definite kernel of something unique and promising in there and now and again there'll be a great line out of nowhere like "anyone wanna get weird and play Mario Kart?"

i'll keep giving this a chance, Ritter is good enough to potentially carry it, but hopefully the other girl has more going on character-wise. i was not as into the van der beek stuff

so.

zzz

yup

I thought ep 2 was much funnier than ep 1

I'm surprised how much I dug this, both episodes

Didn't like last night's episode at all. Ritter was too hateable, other girl was too manic. Van Der Beek's bits with Kiernan Shipka were funny, though...especially the tag at the end.

Ritter's tightrope walk of hateable/relatable(/smashable) is the show's greatest strength imo

"Clear my schedule!"
"It's been clear for weeks."

the foster child thing felt very overdone to me, as a gag. also lol overachieving neurotic woman tries to do too much and flips out also a bit too played.

1st ep >> 2nd ep >>>>>>>>>>>>> 3rd ep

That's not a good trajectory imo.

yeah i mean it's always been kinda doomed tbh, i'm just getting whatever enjoyment i can out of the ride. still mystified that this show has its own thread.

i am mystified that you are mystified.

i just liked riter from breaking bad and am a sucker for meta stuff like the van der beek thing, and i start threads about stuff i like, sorry if i broke ILX shitty sitcom protocol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMi5KU0UjYE

this show is stupid, but dammit, i do love Krysten Ritter in this. feels like a more "it's always sunny"-fied version of New Girl

still not really on board with the van der beek thing, but i did love that indiana jones joke from the second ep

I think of gr8080 as ILX's van der Beek

(tho his head looks less like a mailbox)

Ok I really liked this ep. Managed to find myself pretty consistently surprised by the twists. The writing kept things fast paced. I found myself accidentally narrating the action outloud like a young child or something, just sort of to help myself keep up. The humor is still broad and "edgy" not at all like the character-driven stuff ilx/avclub tends to go for.

yeah def best one to date

still haven't watched this, but it looks like there's a chance it's gonna be an either/or situation with this and Happy Endings for renewal.

HE should and will arise victorious

i seriously doubt this will be renewed, but then again i never expected Happy Endings to come back, let alone be the best new sitcom of the year, so what the hell do i know about ABC execs

but yeah, i like this show... i wish they would kinda just let the B be a B without having every episode give her a face turn, but eh

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what the hell do i know about ABC execs

They have an unwavering faith in Tim Allen.

At this point I think she's like less a B than just a self-involved narcissist with the attention span of a gnat. Which is a much more fun character.

massive lol at this last night

lots of free drugs & a baked potato bar was a good line

i loled at "vodka launch", feels v zeitgeisty

otoh i have more liquor rep and bartender friends than the average person i guess

i honestly wasn't sure if that was real or something they made up

yeah bro you can't put anything out in to the world anymore without a launch party

Someone in the AV Club comments called this show out as a live-action pastiche of American Dad with Chloe as the Roger character and that image has really stuck in my head, particularly with Ritter's semi-gangly body language.

oh it's really mean to compare this show to american dad

maybe it'll be as good as american dad at some point, but it'll take some time

http://www.avclub.com/articles/michael-bolton-to-star-in-abc-sitcom-as-himself-wh,86638/

woah guys! michael bolton! playing himself! i think this whole celebrity-playing-unflattering-version-of-themselves meta thing might finally go semi-mainstream soon!

welp, it's been a good run but I think it's time for humanity to call it

i know it's been discussed on other threads, i just wanted to troll gr80's thread again

oh my bad, carry on

hi al

y was there an ep of this sponsored by ppl magazine

show has been pretty funny lately, feel like it's hitting its stride

thanksgiving episode really delivered. they're walking a line between either humanizing ritter too much or just making her increasingly terrible (or just leaving her be and having the character end up one-note), but for now they're pulling it off. it's like if you built a whole show around kramer subplots.

well, bcz Quell doesnt remember it

So _Vamps_ is a really good film, and Ritter is perfect for it.

"You from Queens"

in other news, both this and happy endings seem like their ratings are pretty bad and they could be cancelled.

yeah they're both in burn-off mode, i think off the schedule by march