This is my first ever review, and I am no TV Connoisseur .. but here goes!
I usually find myself sat in the study with the television on (probably why I never really excelled at school), and the channel that is normally always on is E4. I am a big fan of American Comedy sitcoms, and I probably always will be. The first series of the 2012 show "2 Broke Girls" has now finished on CBS, so I felt (without giving away any spoilers), I would review the show, perhaps as a tip off for the UK viewers who may be unaware of this show.
As a TV show goes, the plot of this programme is incredibly simple.. a fairy princess from the whitest of white collar backgrounds, Caroline Channing, is forced to find her way in the Brooklyn borough of New York after her father is imprisoned for partaking in a Ponzi Scheme (fraud). She finds work in a retro diner, and meets Max Black, a true ladette from a dysfunctional background that has lived, what seems to be obviously a polar opposite lifestyle of Caroline. After a rocky start, the two begin to bond and Max invites Caroline (and her horse!) to stay with her in her apartment (terrible US Comedy cliché eh?).
Max loves to bake, and Caroline (using her Wall Street business credentials), pushes Max into the idea of starting up a new company, however as the two girls are "broke", they go through the whole series, trying to make money, in order to start up this business.. ergo.. hilarity ensues... they have a target goal, can they reach it?
The show has been reviewed by some critics as being offensive, and taking digs at various subcultural groups and races, however the producer (Michael King, well known for Sex and the City), defends the style as multicultural. You can read more about this here http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/shortcuts/2012/may/02/2-broke-girls-racist-baffling ...
The style of comedy is witty, with a lot of one liners and sarcasm, but yet has that terrible sense of awkwardness that some people cringe at. I however, find the lines perfectly delivered by Kat Dennings (Max Black) in particular, and the stereotypical nature of the Chinese diner owner Han (played by Matthew Moy (right)) and Earl, the African American cashier (Garrett Morris (left)), to be so obviously cliché, that it is funny.
This programme is the kind of one that you need to get into, you cannot watch snippets of an episode and find yourself crying with laughter, but you start to feel a sense of empathy with the two girls over the journey they take throughout the first season. I do not see the show lasting more than around three or four seasons, yet I hope it does last for some time.
3.5/5
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