Gender confusion is a favorite theme of the creator. It's something that is frequently encountered in his NIP/TUCK as well. It is not the gender confusion issues that bother me. What bothers me is the trite characters created to embody these pitiful meaningless souls traipsing through Ryan Murphy's productions. They're bad comics, the lot of them. Case in point, Diane Delano. The Miss Bobbi Glass the students call Mr. Bio Glass is a character that has erupted beyond what the script originally called for, to become an oddity of monumental extremes. And in this season, elevated to main cast status. As clearly deranged Claw. And in this episode, a double dose of Diane Delano, as Uncle Tipton joins the fray. It's like a joke that started off being, well, okay, maybe funny, but then the joke became a parade and the parade became a march and the march became a slide over the abyss and you know what? Diane Delano is, like, way way overrated and most likely has a fan base only among knee-slapping adolescent yokels who guffaw at the sexually ambiguous figure. The character is after all, about as believable as Mary Cherry's Season One purse with the (shucks what was it? a fire-ax? a power drill? well, some big utility tool) relegating the entire show to a farcical comedy with surreal qualities, and NOT delivering on the series premise WHICH WAS THE SOCIAL CLASS STRUGGLE BETWEEN BROOKE AND SAM, a theme which has since been thrown to the dogs.
Well, Mary Cherry is not in this episode, I guess Leslie Grossman went on an outing to the mall, hopefully she'll get lost, aw, kidding, but not really.
The point I'm trying to make is that this "lunatic fringe" show is under-achieving as it waffles about with time- wasting wayside characters. It should be about BROOKE and SAM and there should be a RIFT as big as the GRAND CANYON between those two, with a general 90210 and MEAN GIRLS story-line. That's what I had originally signed up for when I bought the DVDs. Not this more-than-half- of-it-is-junk show.
I think very highly of Leslie Bibb. She belongs in something better. She belongs in the kind of show this one could have been HAD IT BEEN UNDER RESPONSIBLE DIRECTION WITH A FIRM HAND ON A PLAUSIBLE STORY-LINE.
Well, Mary Cherry is not in this episode, I guess Leslie Grossman went on an outing to the mall, hopefully she'll get lost, aw, kidding, but not really.
The point I'm trying to make is that this "lunatic fringe" show is under-achieving as it waffles about with time- wasting wayside characters. It should be about BROOKE and SAM and there should be a RIFT as big as the GRAND CANYON between those two, with a general 90210 and MEAN GIRLS story-line. That's what I had originally signed up for when I bought the DVDs. Not this more-than-half- of-it-is-junk show.
I think very highly of Leslie Bibb. She belongs in something better. She belongs in the kind of show this one could have been HAD IT BEEN UNDER RESPONSIBLE DIRECTION WITH A FIRM HAND ON A PLAUSIBLE STORY-LINE.