The Lead actress is not easy to watch. She's in EVERY scene and I think casting her mustve been a favor.
Love the show but am still trying to love the lead. She just doesn't look like a TV/star. You have to have a "look" to be on TV or in the Movies.
She's doesn't…unfortunately...
Great premise, and writing though….
She created the show. Casting her wasn't a "favor".
Thank you. And where does this horrible notion that only blandly pretty, generic women should be actresses ( unless they are playing the ugly/fat/whatever sidekick to the "pretty" girl)?
shareAh, semantics. Apparently you haven't heard the expression (idiom), "Do yourself a favor..."
"Do yourself a favor, and book a full day at the new spa."
"Do yourself a favor, and get braces with the generous dental plan."
"Do yourself a favor, and cast yourself as a lead since no one else will."
Like the show or not, let's be perfectly frank here:
do yourself a favor
to do something that will have a good effect on you or give you an advantage
Why don't you do yourself a favor and take a vacation this summer?
Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms
I think she's hysterically funny, but you're right that she's NOT pretty.
The show is so funny, though, I can overlook the fact that the main lead isn't the prettiest to look @ since this isn't "America's Next Top Model," I can overlook her plain Jane exterior.
She is the reason I love this show! Just because she DOESN'T look like a tv star! LoL. She was born and raised in Upper East Side, NYC, in real life. Her dad was the head of Chanel. I think it is hilarious that she grew up in the wealthy life, and now writes a satire of that whole world she knows so well. She seems "normal", among all the other shallow obsessed women she hangs with. I love this show!
With our thoughts, we make our World.
I agree! I love her and am glad she doesn't look like a typical mindless "movie star". Love the comedy and her!
shareAgree! This is another reason I love this show. It's not realistic to believe that everyone on TV should look like a supermodel. Anyway, I think she's cute.
You never know when you may have to jam
I do like that she doesn't look like a typical TV star, but her hair drives me nuts. It's so thin and greasy looking.
shareExactly WIFEY_3… Its the hair and just her overall appearance. I'm not saying they should have got a supermodel, but they should have casted the role better. She just STICKS out like a sore thumb not in the way an "odd mom out" is supposed to. How often does the writer and creator star as the lead?
How often?
Anyone?
Come on, it's strange.
Odd Actress Out? The lead actress doesn't have the right look for tv? This sounds like a comment made by one of the characters from the show. Are you trying to be satirical with this comment?
---
toh devres tseb hsid a si msacras
Absolutely, Redart. "Not the right look for TV", huh? Looks like our pal here missed the Amy Schumer "12 Angry Men" spoof, too, I guess. That whole mindset is just frightening.
shareshe is the writer.
shareI agree! Besides, Jill Kargmann not only stars in, but also writes the scripts and created the show. I think that's amazing. (Her three actual kids even played her kids in the pilot! But she realized if they remained they'd have to drop out of school, and she very correctly decided,'No Way!!" She said,"I had to fire my children over breakfast the next morning, and they were all crying." )
I was thinking that not only is the show similar to Sex and the City, but Jill is also an unlikely combination of Charlotte and Samantha. A loving wife and mother like Charlotte - whom she slightly resembles physically - but also a foul-mouthed groupie like Samantha Jones!! Who would've thought you could make a plausible hybrid from SATC's two most disparate women??
There's nothing wrong with her teeth. She didn't have them mechanically realigned. So what?
share