2 Broke Girls: Season 1, Episode 7 “And the Pretty Problem” (B+)
Caroline seems determined to make this cupcake business actually happen, and Max is just as determined to fight her on it every single step of the way. Caroline does tend to be more concerned with physical aesthetics, though she doesn’t hold a candle to the obnoxious Italian women running that entirely unhelpful class. Max doesn’t tend to have much patience in general, but her three separate outbursts in this episode were all entirely called for, starting with her biting takedown of the three older women seated in her section. Discovering that her cupcakes weren’t perceived as pretty enough was the last straw in an already irritating conversation, and I particularly enjoyed Max calling her Battlefield Earth. Max’s comparison of Caroline’s bed to a vagina was fun mainly because of the delight that she got every time she uttered the word. That’s generally what works well on this show, and that’s the main reason that I don’t mind Oleg, who seems to be the most hated character by many who criticize the show. In this episode, he was most useful for coming in and interrupting Max’s moment with Johnny by reminding them of his ownership of the freezer. I still find this show to be the funniest new series of the season, and I’m really liking each episode, even if the show isn’t perfect. Kat Dennings and Beth Behrs do make for a great team, and I’m having a great time seeing them become more than just roommates and blossom into true friends.
Thursday, November 3, 2011
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The reason why most people dislike Oleg (and why I'm personally not happy with him) is that he's nothing but a sexual harrassment one-liner machine right now, and when your character already has that problem, an accent doesn't help. If only they would give him a little depth, something to do besides stand in that kitchen and harrass the waitresses, I wouldn't mind him as much. It's kind of like Howard Wollowitz on The Big Bang Theory. When the show started, that character was pretty thin, a nerd who was a sexual harrassment one-liner machine, but that character was given plenty of depth as the show went on and he became a character could at least sympathize with, if not find him strangely endearing (and now that he's with Bernadette, we're getting new material from the character). I'm willing to give the writers the benefit of the doubt on Oleg (and most of the supporting characters for that matter). Really, the only reason I'm liking this show is because of Max and Caroline, but the cheap stuff around them is keeping this show from being the best of the CBS comedies that are currently airing (I won't compare it to sitcoms from other networks, because a lot of them are in a league that I think 2 Broke Girls is not ambitious enough to reach).
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