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Hot in Cleveland (2010)
A total waste of time and talent
Oh, my God! Yes, it's an update of The Golden Girls, but come on, people - it has none of the wit and style of that classic program. All of the principal characters overact like their lives depend on it, the scripts are flat and unfunny, and the half-hour drags on interminably!!
Wendie Malick is arguably the best of the bunch, and Valerie Bertinelli's performance make her weight loss commercials look like Shakespeare. Jane Leeves was nearly unrecognizable, with none of the sass and spunk that made her a fixture on Frasier. Betty White is a force of Nature, but her cameo in Bringing Down The House is way better than her role in this disaster. I can only hope the producers are giving her a big paycheck.
Frankly, this show could be a career killer for the cast writers and producers. I cannot recommend that anyone spend time watching this dreck - the Weather Channel is more entertaining!
Pregnancy Pact (2010)
Another Lifetime Loser
I cannot believe that I wasted time watching this. I kept waiting for it to get better, or even to make some sense. I'm afraid this could be a career-killer for some talented people who obviously needed a paycheck.
The only valuable lesson is that religion-driven communities tend to be so complacent and smug that instead of embracing their children and building family values, they actually just set them adrift in life with absolutely no clues about sex/sexuality (with or without birth control), career and family life, or the nitty-gritty facts about pregnancy and parenthood (with or without abortion).
It would be all to easy to get into socio-political issues here, but to refocus on the movie, it's sufficient to say that it's poorly plotted, badly written, photographed to mediocre TV standards, and features boring, bad music. And is it really possible for someone to actually earn a full-time living as a blogger? I always thought it was a hobby for the socially inept or a part-time business activity like a customer newsletter. Just as it would be bad to present teenage pregnancy as appealing, I think it's misleading to present a part-time activity as a true career opportunity.
Anyway, next time I will be sure to pass up a Lifetime movie for a rerun of Criminal Minds or NCIS (or Two and a Half Men, for that matter).