So I just watched the pilot for "Don't Trust the B- in Apt 23" online... and it debuted a few days ago on television, if I'm not mistaken. It certainly exceeded my expectations, but it's always kind of odd and a little deflating to watch network television go "mean." It's never that mean. It's never FX's "Always Sunny" mean, or (heaven forbid), Premium Channel-level mean! It's more mean, like, when your nicest friend is trying to be mean but she fails. Her "mean" is most people's "one glass of wine into Friday night." And so it goes with network television.
Plus, a show like this really needs more profanity than ABC could ever swing. That said, I will watch a few more episodes. Krysten Ritter is a stone-cold scene stealer, and I was a Dawson's Creek fan back in the day, so it's pretty gratifying to watch Van Der Beek a douchey version of himself.
It's shaping up to be a better show than 2 Broke Girls, a show that I've seen more episodes that I care to admit. Kat Denning is a charmless charmer, meaning she charms me with her blunt charmlessness. It's kind of her schtick. But the show is more than a little racially insensitive -- it's equal opportunity, maybe, but not in a good way. It's especially not good to be Asian... Whitney Cummings and Michael Patrick King, WHAT have you got against Asian people?
(Incidentally, I never was a huge fan of Cummings, but having watched a number of episodes of Whitney, I realize that she sells this kind of humor way better than the girls on 2 Broke Girls... even, I would say, better than Sarah Silverman. Whitney Cummings is like Sarah Silverman without the baby voice and the try-hard Converse sneakers.)
So: blonde sweetheart, brunette bitch... that's a thing now? It's even in the 2006 movie Failure to Launch, which, yes, I've seen, but only once. I'll try any romantic comedy once. Sarah Jessica Parker plays the leading lady, Zooey Deschanel her crabby brunette friend. Deschanel's crabby is pretty darn cute, surprise surprise.
I'm a brunette, and it's gotten me to thinking that I need a mild-mannered blonde sidekick to make me seem, by contrast, tough, sassy, and sexy. Here are some of my qualifications:
-Be my physical opposite in all ways: tall where I am short and lanky where I am compact, with a light, airy voice to contrast with the Elaine Stritch voice that I am cultivating for these purposes
-Be not even a little as funny as me
-Come from the Midwest -- if possible, have never met a Jew before, so that the culture shock can really resonate
-Have a dull boyfriend or no love life to speak of, so that I can draw you out and be your mouthy wing-woman
I smell mid-season replacement show, huh? Huh?
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