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Back to You (2007)
Yuck
This show wants to be Murphy Brown so bad that I expected to hear a Dan Quayle joke. But of course it is no Murphy Brown. Mostly because it's bland, uninteresting, very unfunny, and only boringly socially relevant. Not to mention that it's twenty years too late to be Murphy Brown. The acting makes one think of a ridiculous stage production, which could be funny but unfortunately falls flat of its over-the-top intention. On top of that, the plots are unmistakably trite and borrowed from somewhere else unfunny. Overall its tired humor just cannot compete with the silly, intelligent humor of other newer shows. Miss it. Watch 30-Rock instead. Or even Samantha Who.
Waitress (2007)
I don't know why everyone loves this movie so much.
I had a chance to see a movie for free and decided from the tag-line, "If only life were as easy as pie," that perhaps Waitress would be worth watching. I was wrong. It was as if someone had jotted down an OK Lifetime Movie of the Week story outline and hired a writer to flush it out with predictable jokes, idiotic (not to mention extraordinarily mundane) moralizing, and stock characters like the mean husband, the sassy waitress, the nice doctor, the crotchety old man, and the almost interesting but overall boring heroine. And then, to top it all off, they thought it be a good idea to have an open casting call at a small community theatre. (They probably also asked everyone at said open casting call at community theatre to bring a tape of their favorite obscure music to insure that the movie would have an eclectic soundtrack.)
As much as I didn't care about one single character or how the plot twists (that you could see coming from Beirut) would end up, there were a few bright spots. One of which were Jenna's recurring daydreams about recipes for pies, which were usually creative and entertaining, and another was Keri Russell (or as I like to call her, Felicity)'s nuanced facial expressions. Her acting on the whole was mediocre, but when I found myself cringing or furrowing my brow at the various inanities in the movie, Russell's visage showed the same emotion and actually the same exact expression as mine.
On the whole, the movie was not that good, but it did inspire me to go to a diner and have pie afterwards. Yum.