If for some reason you didn’t realize that The Broadroom is a Candace Bushnell production, whether by noticing her name right there below the title on the series’ website, or by way of the gestational buzz, well then she’s right there onscreen. The famous author introduces each episode, looking ever the quintessential confident Manhattan socialite, if a far more successful one than any of the characters she’s created. Bushnell’s Sex and The City mega-franchise, love it or hate it, leaves behind a lot of baggage - a ‘guilty pleasure’ that for many overstayed its welcome (I’ll never be able to bring myself to watch the movie, and I’d like to think I'm not alone). The Broadroom’s first episode, ‘Husband Highjinks,’ is a messy affair, maybe Bushnell inadvertently working out some residual anger towards men and their perpetual shortcomings that didn't make it onto HBO.
- 10/21/2009
- by Michael Shaw
- Tubefilter.com
Candace Bushnell, the writer whose Sex And The City columns were the inspiration for the TV series and movie, has bounced back from last year's cancellation of Lipstick Jungle on NBC and chosen the web for her new venture-- a new series called The Broadroom, starring Jennie Garth and Jennifer Esposito. (Warning: if you click there, your cursor turns into lipstick. You wish I was kidding.)
Now, I watched the series when it was on HBO-- okay, my wife watched it and I was in the room a lot-- so I decided to give this one a try, see where the revenue stream is, and so on. And just shy of 2:40 into the first episode, entitled "Husband Hijinks" I'm treated to this monologue:
Ahh... men. I know nothing about them. I haven't had a date in, like, ten months. All my girlfriends are, like, where are the guys like us?...
Now, I watched the series when it was on HBO-- okay, my wife watched it and I was in the room a lot-- so I decided to give this one a try, see where the revenue stream is, and so on. And just shy of 2:40 into the first episode, entitled "Husband Hijinks" I'm treated to this monologue:
Ahh... men. I know nothing about them. I haven't had a date in, like, ten months. All my girlfriends are, like, where are the guys like us?...
- 9/18/2009
- by Glenn Hauman
- Comicmix.com
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