Murphy Brown

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It did sound like a laugh track and I have gotten to where they suck the enjoyment out of the show. Strangely it does not bother me with SNL though.

Candice Bergen is still badass and her son is hot, but I wasn't feeling it. Which kills me because I loved the original.

[chitowngirl]

I’d give it a few more episodes. This was basically a pilot where they had to (re)establish everyone. It’ll settle in.

[forever1267]

Faith Ford seems to be playing to the back row, and there are more jokes, like on Will and Grace about this Brave New World of Technology, but it wasn't bad, and it certainly has a point of view with politics. I'll be back too.

[ratscabies]

Caught up on first 2 episodes last night.

I rarely watched back in the day, but had a working knowledge just from pop culture impact. Maybe since I wasn't a loyal fan from way back, it didn't seem as ham fisted as I was expecting from this thread. Maybe it's because I really became a fan of Bergen during Boston Legal, but for whatever reason, I am hooked.

And I am fully aware of my liberal bias here, but I loved the in your face gauntlet-throwing at the administration, and the callback to Quayle as a taunting dare to Dolt45 to have a go at tilting at an ACTUALLY FAKE news anchor.

[lea1977]

The guy who plays her son is hot.

[mojogirl]

Still not sold on Murphy Brown, but I have been watching it. I actually liked parts of last night's episode with the callback to the original show- “I’ve been surprised by a lot of things in the past couple of years, one of them being the child Dan Quayle raked me over the coals for conceiving is now working at the Wolf Network."

Also that we finally got to see Avery working at the Wolf network, and I did enjoy the Fox and Friends sendup.

[Mugsy]

I'm just not feeling it. Candice Bergeb's acting is so stiff and her timing is terrible. Example - they're at the desk after finishing the show when Miles says the network isn't paying for their table at Jim's award dinner. Murphy gets up walks across the room to a lounge area and then says, "What?!? I can't believe they're not paying for our table!" It should be an instant exclamation but she takes way too long to make that line land properly. It's like high school acting. Tyne Daly is acting circles around her, why doesn't she have a show?

And Muphy's wardrobe is atrocious. What was that ugly nursing home jacket she was wearing with the appliquéd leaves and shit? Then her formal outfit had her skirt hiked up to her armpits a la Urkel. Could have been a great look if it sat properly.

Plus, the political jokes are weak and cheap. I expected more.

[divasahm]

I hate to say it, but I agree. Candy's wardrobe is frumpy and awkward (although I know that her body has changed a lot from her fashion model/ingenue/young Murphy days), and while the chemistry between the characters is still there, it doesn't seem like any of them have grown, matured, or evolved since the last episode (except for Avery). I enjoyed the nostalgia of the reboot for the first two or three episodes, but I will not be surprised when they call it a day at the end of the season.

[Ginger]

I only watched the first episode of the new season.

I know Candace Bergen rather officially announced a few years ago that she's done maintaining an actress's physique and appearance, and intends to put comfort first from now on. But they had Murphy basically wearing fleece pajamas. Sorry, no. Andrea Mitchell is the exact same age as Candace Bergen and you don't see Andrea Mitchell wearing nursing home attire to work.

I was also put off by the way Candace seemed to be doing little more than reading off of cue cards and pointing herself in the direction of whoever else was speaking. And the other actors were making up for her lack of effort by hamming it up.

This one needs to join the list of sitcoms that should have been left on the shelf.

[boxofrocks]

Nov 20, 2018 15:06:33 GMT -4 Ginger said:

I was also put off by the way Candace seemed to be doing little more than reading off of cue cards and pointing herself in the direction of whoever else was speaking.

I remember Bergen being physically stiff in the first incarnation of the show, too. She doesn't use gestures as part of her acting. (In the opera world, it's called "park and bark.") Back in the day, I remember Roseanne Barr--no Meryl Streep herself--joking on SNL that Bergen was so wooden she could float.