Chelsea Handler's certainly there - it's just that she is distractingly designed as a blonde so she can express her traditional sis, Sloane, and management generating a sequence that thus far isn't dealing in on her effective company of spontaneity.
"Are You There, Chelsea?" is according to Handler's well-known guides (with the name riffing off of "Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea"), and "That '70s Show's" Laura Prepon in the cause as a 20-something, mysterious edition of the now well-known E! individuality.
Wednesday evening of head set us up with everything we'd need to know, not without help from a practical voice-over:
Prepon's Several weeks is a luxurious of a athletics bar server who can energy slurp the earthworms out of a high-end bourbon (which areas her in prison with a DUI); has an limitless provide of conditions to replace "vagina" (such as "Pikachu"); and has taken a Sea to bed on Veteran's Day looking to be devoted.
Viewers used the first present viewing fantastic Several weeks get skipped out of prison by a very annoyed, very expecting Sloane and become the buddy of the adorably unusual Dee Dee (Lauren Lapkus), who is actually one of the more pleasant people.
Chelsea investments a few cracks with her dad, Melvin (Lenny Clarke), almost furniture a cinnamon and bickers with her sis Sloane, only to hug and create up at her plan after Sloane gives beginning. (This is a present, after all.)
The fantastic, youthful Several weeks Owner is very much exactly how you'd visualize the real Several weeks to work. Theoretically, this isn't a bad concept. A half-hour spontaneity according to Several weeks Handler's bawdy spontaneity could function, especially considering that while the comic has her detractors, she has just as many lovers. But what NBC has offered so far isn't quite the way to go about it.
Critics factor to some issues with the pilot: First of all, having the real Several weeks Owner in the thrown, but not enjoying herself. As HitFix paperwork, "Handler's on-camera existence just undercuts [Prepon]...any time Prepon is generating any points towards generating the personality her own, Owner changes to tell you what the real Several weeks looks and appears to be like."
Secondly, it doesn't add anything new to the Several weeks Owner we've come to know - and if anything, "Are You There, Chelsea?" basically ocean down that individuality.
The New York are able to Day-to-day Information evaluations that while the authors use "the same cracks that have powered Owner to four best-selling guides and a blooming standup spontaneity profession...on TV they need to add up to something more."
And finally, a variety of experts were not impressed to the slap-dash demonstration of the head. As the A.V. Team leaves it, "the whole element performs like somebody study one of Handler’s guides and outlined a variety of products that just had to be in a TV present, without really considering if all of them would function together in the same place."
Rounding out the thrown is Mike McDorman as the prospective really like attention, bartenders John (we understand in the head that they haven't installed because they both like to be on top), and fantastic Chelsea's journalist-in-training buddy Olivia (Ali Wong).
Did you get the sequence initial of "Are You There, Chelsea?" If so, what'd you think?
