If it's 2:45 in the morning and you just happen to be suffering yet another one of those nights, you know those tossed and turned affairs where you find yourself feeling more wired than Joe Valachi's chest and if you just so happen to have some form of access to your cable subscription's 'On Demand' services or perhaps are the proud possessor of a TiVo system, there are a few little cure-alls around the dial that I would like to recommend . Think of these as meditations and a means that may just lull you back to your much needed circadian rhythm. Now I am not suggesting that because these select programs are soporific in any way or form ;nor is there any evidence that they host even a trace amount of melatonin in them. But as one of my own personal tried and true practices I feel that they may do just the trick for ye - my fellow undersleepers.
And while this past summer I just couldn't stop myself from yodeling my paeans loudly and proudly for Chuck Lorre, there's still a surplus of love left over to bestow upon Whitney Cummings and Michael Patrick King who co-created CBS's million dollar showstopper 2 Broke Girls. Now in its fourth season which in television years is something like a hundred . We find ourselves in this season's opener being treated to a walk-on scene of internet breaker herself Kim Kardashian,well make that a small hop and a jump in the very last frame of the episode. Now these odd-couple waitresses know all about serving up the best of televisual comfort food and you don't have to worry about your cholesterol levels. And though there is definitely a formula with its rich to rags girl meets already destitute dame - and in the throes of desperation the pair decide to shack up in what is basically, well a shack while punching well under their weight in the job and occasionally romance department. These two wacky and wonderful women who always keep the japes a'reeling and ain't too shabby in the physical comedy realm belong in a Cukor film seventy years ago. And there are more than a few envelopes being pushed in any given episode, chiefly from the mouth of babe Max Black (Kat Dennings) and now and again style via the hello dolly Caroline Channing (Beth Behrs). What can I say, these sisters just gel
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| Good Golly Miss Molly (McCarthy & Gardell) |
And then along came Molly as seen in Mike and Molly, a role filled by the recently slimmed down dynamo they call Melissa McCarthy (yes relation to Jenny) with her better half or whole (depending which way you look at it) Mike portrayed by a Kramdenesque Billy Gardell , a Mark Roberts creation and Chuck Lorre production - there will be heard a litany of overweight jabs, it was a dozen-step Overeaters Anonymous meeting that brought these two forces of nature together after all. And don't you worry - there's plenty of other clever going around here; although she only gets squeezed into a scene here and a scene there (nothing pejorative meant) Swoosie Kurtz as the sexually liberated live-in mother is not to be missed and with what limited 'lil screen time she gets she makes a ten-course meal out of it but don't worry both Mike and Molly are getting a hold on their ingestion habits.
And have you got a nice cup of Sleepy Time brand Spiced Milk? Good. Now watch two shows and call me in the morning.
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And have you got a nice cup of Sleepy Time brand Spiced Milk? Good. Now watch two shows and call me in the morning.