Please join The Couch Potato Tribune in welcoming Eldis Sula to our writing team! Eldis is a small-brained Albanian Elvis impersonator with a chest of fur and a heart of gold. He'll be covering Whitney sporadically (for as long as it lasts), Project Runway, and possibly more as the fall schedule resumes. Welcome Eldis!
Alex, please stay down.Sweeps week came and went, and what a triumph it was for network sitcoms. You know, you’d think in 2011 people would be too smart to fall for the rusty laugh-track format, and well, they kind of are. But something’s been going on the past few years. Sitcoms have updated themselves to accommodate our increasing self-awareness. Awful shows like Two and a Half Men show us that primetime slots can contain more than transparent saccharine sweetness, but cynical plotlines revolving around characters who love to drink all the time and nonchalantly get prostitutes. So how do networks proceed after their sitcoms establish that it’s acceptable to portray ironic, imperfect people and families? They put on a show like Whitney.
