Hot in Cleveland skewers LA life
Hot in Cleveland was the highest rated show ever on TV Land. The premiere attracted 4.75 million viewers. I watched it and actually thought it was funny. I loved the fact that this was a show about three women friends who support each other. I loved the fact Wendy Malick is back on TV cause she is hysterical as an aging soap opera actress desperate to revive her career. Show also stars Jane Leeves from Frasier and Valerie Bertinelli. Betty White is billed as a special guest. The show talks about what life is like for women as they approach 50 but more importantly it really makes fun of what LA and Hollywood does to women and with Malick playing an actress it gets to put in some zingers about how women are treated in the business. The premise is that the friends are on their way to Paris and their plane has to make an emergency landing in Cleveland. They decide to get drunk and wind up in a bar where they are shocked that the men are actually looking at them. Valerie Bertinelli says “the men are actually looking at us. In LA they look past us.” Other funny lines:
I loved the fact that the show makes fun on how unreal women — make that people — are in LA and what a nightmare it is to try and maintain that kind of existence. But the irony is as they are skewering the unrealistic LA lifestyle you can’t but help and notice that not one of these three 50-year-old actresses has a single line on her face. So they can make fun of the LA life but they can’t get cast of a show making fun of LA unless they look like they are botoxed up the wazoo. I want a show where not everyone looks like they have been botoxed within an inch of their life. I also noticed that Lynda Obst is one of the executive producers. I’m going to keep watching.
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