Kath and Kim- Page 2

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 10/10/08 at 10:04pm

It wasn't good, but I LOVE Molly Shannon, and I laughed a couple of times. I'm gonna give it another chance as pilots can be bad.

ETA: That actor playing Craig is a DOR able.

Updated On: 10/10/08 at 10:04 PM

[Roninjoey]

Posted: 10/10/08 at 10:43pm

Totes.

P.s. did anyone think that Kim was Kenley from Project Runway EXACTLY?! She had the same hairstyle, wore flowers in her hair at one point, looked the same... it was nuts. What a lazy cow.

[purpleprince101]

Posted: 10/10/08 at 11:00pm

I loved it, but I dont know if im going to follow up on it. My Thrusday nights are already jammed packed with my 4 favorite shows.

[theaterdude87]

Posted: 10/11/08 at 1:41am

I watched it at work today since we get the SAT feed from the night before, and I really enjoyed it. Maybe I liked the humor, but there was some parts when I was laughing.

[verynewyorkcurious]

Posted: 10/11/08 at 2:32am

This was the only new show I was looking forward to this fall season, so I think that may have been why I thought it was such a let down.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 10/11/08 at 12:44pm

I watched it last night and I thought it was dreadful. I agree that that husband is cute, though.

[Icehouse Life]

Posted: 10/11/08 at 4:03pm

All TV networks in the US need to heed this very important lesson: don't overhype ANY new TV show, especially when it hits in the fall.

Seven Network Australia, commonly known as Channel 7 down there, will screen the US version of the show starting October 12, which is probrably now down there at this writing. Seven holds the broadcast rights to the Australian original since 2007 from ABC. I haven't seen both versions, but I hope they'll be DVDs of the Australia version. The fourth season will air on 7 in mid-2009.

I could be wrong about the following, but part of the problem for the US version's issues could be structural: meaning that the Australian original, I've heard, is allowed to be vulgar and crude that the US one really can't due to standards and practices and the time slot it's on. Don't know how the US version will deal with the mundaneness and superficiality of American suburbia like the Aussie one does, an important part of its success.

[Urban]

Posted: 10/11/08 at 8:12pm

I'd hardly call the original 'Kath & Kim' really crude and vulgar. The humour is certainly different from mainstream US Sitcom humour, bit is hardly toilet or gross-out humour.

As an Australian who saw the US 'Kath and Kim' (yeah, don't ask) I think the main issue is Kath/Molly Shannon actually.

Kath and Kim are suppose to be a little bit clueless and dimwitted (and as somebody said upthread - behind the times) and that is often what makes the show as funny as it is. Between the two of them they present two faces of cluelessness - Kath being the nice and inherently good type of cluelessness, Kim being the annoyingly selfish type of cluelessness.

I actually think Selma Blair did pull off Kim well, but Molly Shannon was playing Kath way to straight and it just didn't work. Kath needs to be a full ensemble - the voice, the hair, the clothes (okay we did have the clothes in this one), somebody that needs to stick out like a sore thumb.

I also think the show is loosing out by not having a Sharon character. The point of having a Sharon character is to bring out Kim's even more selfish and narcissistic (and down right mean) side. Often I found in the original show that is where some of the funniest stuff lies.
Updated On: 10/11/08 at 08:12 PM

[bschneid76]

Posted: 10/12/08 at 12:20am

I didn't make it through the first episode. I was sooooo bored, and hoping that something funny was going to happen. Molly Shannon needs a better vehicle.