He makes Bryant Gumbel look like...
I'm watching Kevin Hill (please forgive me, the choices are abysmal) and I guess the show is about this hot single lawyer (Taye Diggs) who has a small daughter and also he dates a lot or something. I don't really know, I'm too lazy to read up on it. The most ridiculous part of the show is not the 2nd-grade-level storylines or the reheated dialogues, but the scenes of Taye Diggs "raising" his toddler daughter. Apparently it always involves "Kevin" wearing clean, perfectly ironed designer suits, occasionally without a tie or jacket (you know, all parents really let themselves go) and taking her to a hairdresser or having her shake her diapered butt to some catchy R&B song. The little girl, obviously also always wears cute CLEAN outfits and makes very little noise. Well, wouldn't you know, that's exactly how things are over here at my house. Veronika miraculously disappears for hours at a time so I can get my hair and face ready and put on my fancy clothes and then shows up all dressed and combed and we bounce around to Jazzmatazz and then again she disappears until it's time for me to take her to some cool location where the two of us will be photographed for the cover of Perfect Parents magazine. Anyway, there is nothing more ridiculous than to watch Taye Diggs carry his on-screen daughter. The uneasiness and unfamiliarity between the two is so obvious you just want to save her from his klutzy hands.
And before you doze off, some other really awesome storylines:
Taye Diggs meets single hair stylist Toni Braxton from Harlem and she gets upset at him for not being black enough and takes him from a fancy Manhattan restaurant to a "real" place where they have greasy food and play Stevie Wonder. It looks like that really cures him and he repents of his white ways and returns to her salon claiming that he can still "relate" even though he "wears designer suits and has a few white friends". And at the end he recites a poem by Zora Neale Hurston in a hearing! I'm telling you, the dialogue is OSCAR material, not to mention the "ethnic sensitivity". Classic stuff.
But it gets deeper. Another story line follows a young woman who seeks anullment from the Catholic Church, because her husband concealed his real identity being in a witness protection program and all (it's a very real show, you know). She's so stubborn because she is so religious and she will want to get remarried in the church one day and we all know, there is no divorce when you're Catholic blabla. Turns out, the woman is having an affair already and is just seeking the anullment so she doesn't come off as an adulterer. There you have it. Catholics all have dark dirty secrets and black people cannot keep it real if they wear Ferragamo.
The best part? Next week Wayne Brady guest stars!
Posted at 08:37 PM on May 04, 2005
You are cracking me up ... dead on accurate analysis.
My teenage girls and I watched the first four or five episodes ... the whole Taye Diggs is "gorgeous" thing ya know ... until even that couldn't overcome the idiocy. And also Alias was looming in the future on Wednesday nights.
Well, I really like Wayne Brady.
Tell me, from my perspective, I get so tired of the "your not black enough" storylines. Like being black has to dictate all your choices over who you are as yourself. But I gotta ask, doesn't that stuff insult you as a white person. Like "yeah, obviously being 'white' is so lame" Can you imagine of there was a show with a reversed storyline? A white guy who is stereotypically with black people, but meets a girl who tells him he is not white enough?
I dunno, but I may skip this show as cute as Taye Diggs is.
Actually, I like Wayne Brady too, I just thought it was so ironic that they would have him on next week given that silly "he's not black enough"-reputation when Taye Diggs' character just had the same problem.
The show would be insulting on so many levels, I didn't even touch the surface, but it is so bad that it just can't be taken seriously even as an insult. I completely agree with you, I didn't really want to dignify that whole "real white" and "real black" issue with a serious comment.
...well, at least next week will be funny. Gotta love Wayne Brady. What ever happened to his talk show? (see? another reason Matt needs a job... so I can stay caught up on talk shows!)
My kids love to watch "Whose Line Is It Any Way"-the American version with Drew Carey because they love Wayne Brady. He is very talented.
I'm embarrassed that I know this, but it's not Kevin Hill's daughter...he is raising the daughter of a cousin of his who signed over paternal rights. Maybe you saw last night's episode (I did...ducking head in shame) and saw that Wayne Brady is the new boyfriend-then-husband of the used-to-be-messed-up cousin and he has a real domineering presence. It's pretty obvious where the story line is going, and then, yep...they want to get the baby girl back. I doubt I will watch next week. Just wanted to chime in, though! Hi dinka!
Um... I thought the Wayne Brady show was pretty awful. The cheesiness of it all was beneath him. But I'm no Wayne Brady basher... I just KNOW that he is capable of so much more.