I have been watching the TVLand channel's summer sitcom "Hot in Cleveland". I think it's cute. I read all of the advance stuff on it,and they stated that they were not trying to portray any specific neighborhood or area on the show, but encompass the entire area. Fine.
For those of you who haven't seen it,here's a run down. 3 friends from L.A., an author, a writer, and a celebrity stylist, are going to Paris for 2 weeks. After seeing her newly divorced husband on the plane, the writer decides to start being more spontantious. The plane makes an emergency landing in Cleveland. After a postitive experience in a local bar, the writer decides to rent a house here for 2 weeks, and the other 2 decide to stay with her. The house comes with a snarky caretaker who rounds out the group.
Each week, the women have a minor adventure, like one week they got blind dates for each other. The show is mild and has it funny moments like any other sitcom and since the snarky caretaker is played by Betty White, she gets in some good stuff. All said and fine.
Here is my problem. It is not with the show, but with some twitter-bat of a so called reporter who works for the Plain Dealer (our local paper for those of you who don't live here) and calls herself "The Diva" in what I belive is a lame attempt at humor. This amazingly clueless "journalist" writes about and rates the show based on the reality of it. Her thermometer goes from hot to frigid, and she pulls apart every episode like the fate of the free world depends on it.
Last week, a character who had been fishing caught a fish that (gasp!) you don't find in Lake Erie, yet is found in the Great Lakes in general. Twitter-bat had a field day. She also seized on the made up dishes that the writer character had created for the party she was throwing too meet the neighbors, something she would never have done in L.A. So bloody what if there isn't a dish called "Drew Curry" or "Lebron Rice"? It's a t.v. show. It's fiction!
Frankly, I think the show is a positive for Cleveland like the "Drew Carey Show" was. I have a hard time beliving that all shows set in real places are always 100% accurate. I think miss "Diva" needs to chill out and let it go. Unless they say something terrible, I don't see the big deal.
For those of you who haven't seen it,here's a run down. 3 friends from L.A., an author, a writer, and a celebrity stylist, are going to Paris for 2 weeks. After seeing her newly divorced husband on the plane, the writer decides to start being more spontantious. The plane makes an emergency landing in Cleveland. After a postitive experience in a local bar, the writer decides to rent a house here for 2 weeks, and the other 2 decide to stay with her. The house comes with a snarky caretaker who rounds out the group.
Each week, the women have a minor adventure, like one week they got blind dates for each other. The show is mild and has it funny moments like any other sitcom and since the snarky caretaker is played by Betty White, she gets in some good stuff. All said and fine.
Here is my problem. It is not with the show, but with some twitter-bat of a so called reporter who works for the Plain Dealer (our local paper for those of you who don't live here) and calls herself "The Diva" in what I belive is a lame attempt at humor. This amazingly clueless "journalist" writes about and rates the show based on the reality of it. Her thermometer goes from hot to frigid, and she pulls apart every episode like the fate of the free world depends on it.
Last week, a character who had been fishing caught a fish that (gasp!) you don't find in Lake Erie, yet is found in the Great Lakes in general. Twitter-bat had a field day. She also seized on the made up dishes that the writer character had created for the party she was throwing too meet the neighbors, something she would never have done in L.A. So bloody what if there isn't a dish called "Drew Curry" or "Lebron Rice"? It's a t.v. show. It's fiction!
Frankly, I think the show is a positive for Cleveland like the "Drew Carey Show" was. I have a hard time beliving that all shows set in real places are always 100% accurate. I think miss "Diva" needs to chill out and let it go. Unless they say something terrible, I don't see the big deal.