The Return of Jezebel James (2008– )

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When a newly single, professional woman learns she's unable to conceive, she looks to her estranged younger sister to carry her baby for her.

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 Sarah Tompkins (7 episodes, 2008)
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 Coco Tompkins (6 episodes, 2008)
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 Marcus Sonti (4 episodes, 2008)
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 Dash (4 episodes, 2008)
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 Ronald Tompkins (3 episodes, 2008)
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 Buddy (3 episodes, 2008)
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 Office Worker (3 episodes, 2008)
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When a newly single, professional woman learns she's unable to conceive, she looks to her estranged younger sister to carry her baby for her.

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Untitled Amy Sherman-Palladino Project  »

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Lorelai Lite (TM)
17 March 2008 | by (United States) – See all my reviews

I'm a huge fan of Gilmore Girls and a huge part of my fanship (fandom? I'm not sure how to verbinate "being a fan of") is the dialogue: quicked-witted and intensely smart, it appealed to me on a fairly deep level. More than that, there was a real sense of character to back up not only Lorelai and Rory that made them more than just cardboard cut-out clichés. There was heart as much as there was humor so naturally I expected to find the same things in Amy Sherman-Palladino's newest show. But as anyone can attest, you can give the likes of Shakespeare to an ill-equipped actor and it will come off as clumsy. Whether or not it's the fault of Amy having phoned in a script that seems like it was culled from dropped scripts of GG, the show just doesn't work. Fact of the matter is that Parker Posey is a horrible stand-in for Lauren Graham's comedic talents and Posey seems to be overacting the material in front of her when the brilliance of AS-P's writing is that the jokes work best when the only laughing is from the viewer and not the "live studio audience". The laugh track *kills* the humor in the show.

What's more is that the dynamic between Sarah (Posey) and her on-screen younger sister Coco feels like it was transplanted haphazardly from Gilmore Girls, with Coco acting the role of Rory. It's infuriating because it feels like AS-P got lazy and went for the cheap laugh. I rate this show poorly because I feel that Amy Sherman-Palladino had the chance to follow up the six years of Gilmore Girls she was present for with another hit and that instead she delivered a thinly veiled insult to television audiences en masse.


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