WEB THERAPY With Lisa Kudrow
WEB THERAPY With Lisa Kudrow
#2WEB THERAPY With Lisa Kudrow
Posted: 7/27/12 at 4:51pmOh my God, Meryl Streep as a homophobe and Spiderman the musical jokes all in one show....I'm in heaven.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#2WEB THERAPY With Lisa Kudrow
Posted: 7/27/12 at 4:55pmI think it's okay, but I can really only handle it in small doses.
#3WEB THERAPY With Lisa Kudrow
Posted: 7/27/12 at 5:51pmI need to try it again. I couldn't get through the first episode. The passive-aggressive hostility just went on and on and on...
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#4WEB THERAPY With Lisa Kudrow
Posted: 7/27/12 at 5:58pmI just can't take the staticness of it. I don't know if they've opened it up anymore in the second season, but just watching people back and forth on webcams just bored me after a while.
#6WEB THERAPY With Lisa Kudrow
Posted: 7/27/12 at 6:02pmPRS, I think you put your finger on it. That's probably why it seemed so slow to me.
#8WEB THERAPY With Lisa Kudrow
Posted: 7/27/12 at 7:34pm
I admit, it was brilliant when it was a web exclusive show and only one 5-10 min session at a time. I loved it--then when it went to Showtime for 30 mins, I found it hard to sit through a full episode as well (to be fair, I think the early episodes were actually episodes meant for the web all joined together--they started having little bits between them, etc). But this season has been pretty great--and yes the Meryl stuff is terrific (Victor Garber was barely in the webseries as well and he adds a lot).
It reminds me a lot of my much missed, beloved The Comeback--it's basically Valerie transplanted to this new situation as a therapist, but I admit it hasn't quite approached the brilliance of that show, yet anyway.
Luscious
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#9WEB THERAPY With Lisa Kudrow
Posted: 7/27/12 at 7:49pmIt's amusing in small doses. The outtakes over the end credits are fun.
#10WEB THERAPY With Lisa Kudrow
Posted: 7/27/12 at 10:57pm
I don't know what's wrong with me, then, because I love this show!
(I'm also a big fan of Dan Bucatinsky's film, ALL OVER THE GUY, so perhaps I was predisposed to like WEB THERAPY.)
For me, it's a close tie between this and VEEP, for best new comedy.
#11WEB THERAPY With Lisa Kudrow
Posted: 7/27/12 at 11:23pm
Except it's run at least one previous season on Showtime, and for several years online (which doesn't count, I guess...) 
Did you watch The Comeback? (It was funny because when it premiered, critics SAVAGED it--I knew some people online besides myself who loved it, but by the end it appeared on many critics' best of TV lists. I guess they had to grow into it--but not enough for HBO to save it). Bucatinsky created it as well. I love All Over the Guy, BTW.
#12WEB THERAPY With Lisa Kudrow
Posted: 7/27/12 at 11:27pm
THE COMEBACK should be studied for it's greatness. It's the single most uncomfortable show ever made, I think.
And I adore ALL OVER THE GUY. That's where I first got my crush on Richard Ruccolo.
#13WEB THERAPY With Lisa Kudrow
Posted: 7/27/12 at 11:54pmAbsolutely, JC. I have to say though, that with Kudrow I love the uncomfortable humour--yet on other shows (like the Office) it's the kind of humour that does nothing for me. And JC, you never watched the brilliance that was Two Guys and a Girl (and a Pizza Place for its first year)? :P I tease about the brilliance but that's what I always associate Ruccolo with.
#14WEB THERAPY With Lisa Kudrow
Posted: 7/27/12 at 11:58pm
Kudrow takes that 5 seconds of uncomfortableness on shows like THE OFFICE and extends it to 30 straight minutes. Sometimes it took me two days to get through one episode just because it was SO hard to watch because of that. But that's a testament to what really is the brilliance of Kudrow's acting.
And I never did see the Pizza show. I wish I had, though!!!
#15WEB THERAPY With Lisa Kudrow
Posted: 7/28/12 at 12:08am
Unfortunately it also introduced the world to Ryan Reynolds (which you may not find an unfortunate thing, but I do :P ).
You're right about Lisa--and yeah on The Comeback I did start to feel kinda sympathetic towards her character despite her obliviousness (or maybe because). She's almost a modern day Norma Desmond, thinking she poised to recapture her glory years... (OK, maybe that's a stretch). My friends and I still use catchphrases from her sitcom within the show, "I don't wanna see that", etc. Which I realize saying now is probably pretty obnoxious to everyone else.
And Lisa's character in the studio recording I Will Survive--getting more and more angry is truly one of the finest comedy performances http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq_xS1-fiGc
#16WEB THERAPY With Lisa Kudrow
Posted: 7/31/12 at 4:55am
Except it's run at least one previous season on Showtime, and for several years online (which doesn't count, I guess...)
Sorry. Senior moment. Of course I watched WEB THERAPY last year, too.
Yes, I watched every episode of THE COMEBACK. (The Palm Springs episode was filmed almost entirely within walking distance of my house. It's a really small town.)
I find WEB THERAPY actually easier to take because Fiona is SO amoral and self-focussed I don't mind seeing her humiliated on occasion. Valerie Cherish seemed to want to be a decent person even if her narcissism sometimes got in the way.
#17WEB THERAPY With Lisa Kudrow
Posted: 7/31/12 at 7:19pmYou're right that that's a pretty major disctinction between the characters, who otherwise are pretty similar. I had forgotten all about the Palm Springs episode...
#18WEB THERAPY With Lisa Kudrow
Posted: 7/31/12 at 10:47pm
Yeah, Fiona really gives as good as she gets. Valerie didn't deserve most of the humiliations she suffered, IMO, just for wanting to work and be relevant again.
I'm thinking the difference is a conscious choice on the part of the creators.
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