- Also Known As:
- Unknown
- Version
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- Review Format:
- DVD
- Country:
- Predominant Genre:
- Comedy
- Directors:
Directors Bill Lawrence Chris Koch Gail Mancuso 
Directors Michael Spiller Jamie Babbit Ken Whittingham 
Directors Sanjay Shah Phil Traill Lee Shallat‑Chemel 
Directors John Putch Millicent Shelton Michael McDonald 
- Outstanding Performances:
Outstanding Performances Courteney COX 
- Premiss:
- A divorced woman in her forties is eager to re‑embrace her youth.
- Themes:
- Aggression | Alienation | Curative | Destiny | Emotional repression | Erotophobia | Gynophobia | Identity | Loneliness | Materialism | Narcissism | Original Sin | Parasitism | Passivity | Personal | Political | Political Correctness | Pornography | Sadomasochism | Schizophrenia | Sex | Sexism | Sexual Repression | Snobbery | Solipsism | Stereotyping | The West | White culture | White people
- Similar to:
- Unknown
Absurdly‑gynecological rather than actually funny, this comedy possesses no profound understanding of human nature.
Although amusing‑enough about the inherent‑superficiality of White people, it does not actually explore why Whites are so culturally‑shallow. Nor does it attempt to explain why, if such cultural meagerness is rational, how it could ever be the basis of comedy; that is, laughing at what one fears?
Instead, volitionally‑trapped in a culture that deliberately‑represses them, Whites respond with the narcissistic, hysterically‑whining and emotionally‑incontinent sex‑obsession on show here – a clear substitute for the emotional‑intimacy which sexual‑promiscuity can never provide.
Where is the humor about the identity satisfactions from fulfilling sex with people of one’s choice? Where is the valid distinction between lust and desire? Where are the worthwhile gags about why Whites have the highest divorce & infidelity rates? Where are the funnies about why Whites invented Viagra, when necessity is the mother of invention? They do not exist because the humor here is an essentially‑dishonest spitting‑upon a humanity being successfully‑ and actively‑elided.
The world inhabited by these two‑dimensional characters is almost completely‑lacking in cultural or political context, since neither they nor the writers possess the courage to step outside of their social comfort‑zones to explore and find happiness elsewhere.
A comedy about why Whites feel their lives pass‑them‑by while they are actually living them and why they fight with their emotions - on a daily basis - would be far more of a hoot than this. If it were not for the delightful presence of Courteney COX, this show would be quite unbearable.
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