God, mean girls and Dior mix in new comedy GCB
21.05.12
People are wondering how the Christian right will react to the new ABC comedy GCB, based on a novel called Good Christian Bitches, but it’s a silly question. Long before there was a Bible Belt, this kind of woman was in the Bible — Jezebel was the first true mean girl (Revelation 2:20).
GCB, which begins tonight, is a fried-green Desperate Housewives, with a little bit of Carrie Bradshaw tossed in, which is to say that one of the executive producers is Robert Harling (Steel Magnolias), and another is Darren Star (Sex and the City). The result is a network comedy that sends up sex, sin and Southern Baptists, or at least the pious parvenus of Dallas.
In short, there are some funny lines and a lot of designer shoes, decolletage and choir practice. Or as the show’s Alpha mean girl, Carlene, played by Kristin Chenoweth, puts it, "Cleavage makes your cross hang straight."
There’s also a homage to the sitcom Designing Women, including a shallow former ex-beauty queen like the one played by Delta Burke. Only in this iteration all the women are like Delta Burke, or worse. Annie Potts, who played the nice Mary Jo in Designing Women, is cast here as Gigi, a wealthy society matron who loves clothes and Jesus.
Source: TheChronicleHerald.ca