I caught up with the Cougar Town premiere online and thought it was absolutely terrible. The best words I have to describe this raunchy and demeaning show are desperate, pathetic and insulting. Courtney Cox's character asks her son why he doesn't laugh at her sex- obsessed jokes and he says: "Because they make me sad." Bingo!
I have nothing against sex-obsessed women who fret about aging and the difficulty of finding love. I am a big fan of Sex and the City. But that show has something that Cougar Town lacks-- authentic characters who feel real. Carrie and her crew each has a distinct and very specific take on sex and romance that defines who she is, how she sees the world and what love means to her. Each woman is throughly believable and acts consistently with specific attitudes about life and love. I recognize women I know in the characters in Sex and the City.
Cortney Cox's character is is poorly defined, cartoonish and utterly inauthentic. She acts like a thirty-year old Judd Apatow guy trapped in a one-note joke about being desperate but clumsy in the attempt to get laid. I have no idea what her cardboard cut-out character believes about life or love or why she is doing what she is doing. To you tell you the truth I really don't really care. Someone please put this excruciatingly pathetic show out of its misery.
For a more extensive review and comparison of this show to Sex and the City go to http://www.etbscreenwriting.com
I have nothing against sex-obsessed women who fret about aging and the difficulty of finding love. I am a big fan of Sex and the City. But that show has something that Cougar Town lacks-- authentic characters who feel real. Carrie and her crew each has a distinct and very specific take on sex and romance that defines who she is, how she sees the world and what love means to her. Each woman is throughly believable and acts consistently with specific attitudes about life and love. I recognize women I know in the characters in Sex and the City.
Cortney Cox's character is is poorly defined, cartoonish and utterly inauthentic. She acts like a thirty-year old Judd Apatow guy trapped in a one-note joke about being desperate but clumsy in the attempt to get laid. I have no idea what her cardboard cut-out character believes about life or love or why she is doing what she is doing. To you tell you the truth I really don't really care. Someone please put this excruciatingly pathetic show out of its misery.
For a more extensive review and comparison of this show to Sex and the City go to http://www.etbscreenwriting.com