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Has anyone seen Doll and Em?

27 replies

Lighthousekeeping · 16/03/2014 22:00

I so wanted to like it but I'm not feeling it at all.

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Davros · 16/03/2014 23:12

Oh dear. I have recorded it but not had time to watch yet. I really liked the look of it

Lighthousekeeping · 16/03/2014 23:13

Let me know what you think.

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EatShitDerek · 16/03/2014 23:19

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furlinedsheepskinjacket · 16/03/2014 23:20

was curious so checked it out on you tube - rubbish i'm afraid not funny

I love Emily m too

iklboo · 16/03/2014 23:26

I tried, but it just seems to....miss. It's like they picked the funniest bits for the trailers.

Lighthousekeeping · 16/03/2014 23:33

It's very self indulgent

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DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 17/03/2014 00:09

I love it ! Watched them all so far back to back. Really made me chortle.

householdchorewhore · 17/03/2014 00:15

Yes I've been a bit disappointed too, which is a shame because it would be fab to have some women centred comedy!

Davros · 17/03/2014 07:28

I think I missed a couple, came in on the Susan Sarandon one. I smiled a few times but no real laughs. I quite liked it, it's interesting, so I will continue to watch. I did NOT recognise John Cusack!

OnceUponAThyme · 17/03/2014 08:16

I didnt enjoy the first one so I've not bothered with the rest.

DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 17/03/2014 12:28

It's not meant to be laugh out loud comedy though, it's quiet, gentle and wry. I think it's really well done and stoned Susan Sarandon was geniusGrin

limitedperiodonly · 17/03/2014 13:28

I feel the same as you OP.

Lighthousekeeping · 17/03/2014 13:43

Susan Sarandon always seems stoned anyway!

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DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 17/03/2014 14:01

It's worth watching for John CussakWink

limitedperiodonly · 17/03/2014 14:05

I've met Susan Sarandon. I thought she'd be really nice. How wrong I was. She's very grand.

I found her behaviour in that episode quite believable. Still not funny though. It's weird because if she's happy to send herself up, surely she'd be nicer?

Perhaps she didn't realise that she was being sent up and thought it was a straight documentary.

DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 17/03/2014 14:22

The irony was probably lost on herWink they were all probably pissing themselves laughing on set that she was playing herself.

Lighthousekeeping · 17/03/2014 14:35

Aw, I'm sad to hear that. I hope Goldies nor a caw as well.

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limitedperiodonly · 17/03/2014 18:48

Goldie is even viler. I met them together promoting a film called The Banger Sisters, which is about two middle-aged women who used to be 70s groupies and bump into each other with allegedly hilarious results now one has reinvented herself as a society wife (Susan) and the other (Goldie) is still a trailer trash trollop.

Except that I suspect that if you were a trailer trash trollop and drug addict in her 50s you wouldn't have such dazzling teeth. Or many teeth at all.

But I'm being picky. Grin Quite a lot of teeth in that emoticon btw.

It's reasonably diverting way to spend two hours watching one average actress and one very good one paying off their respective tax bills. But only if there's nothing better on.

Funnily enough, that review didn't make it on to the front of the DVD.

That's why I don't like those oh-so-amusing cameo pieces. I've watched so many of them and I don't think the actors get it. I think their agents say it would be a good thing for them to be in and they're deluded and thick.

Seriously thick and unbelievably ego-massaged.

Doll and Em is a HBO production, I think. It's a prestigious network and Emily Mortimer is in the execrable but watchable The Newsroom from Aaron Sorkin, so I suspect there are a lot of favours and ego-massaging being done.

Also Sarandon and John Cusack, who is apparently a bit of an arsehole too, are so tediously right-on. And I say that as an utter Lefty. I hated her. I'm pretty sure I'd hate him too.

The only one that works for me is Curb Your Enthusiasm, which is also on HBO.

Long post. Sorry for the rant.

Does it make me seem mad?

It's just that I find Telly Addicts good for this because I love telly and just want to talk to other people who love it too. Smile

furlinedsheepskinjacket · 17/03/2014 18:59

he he limited

you only have to peek at jcs twitter to see what he's like

Lighthousekeeping · 17/03/2014 19:07

Now I could believe it of Meryl

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Wibblytummy · 17/03/2014 21:37

Agree with OP, we watched two episodes then un series linked it. It just was a bit flat and slow.

JohnFarleysRuskin · 17/03/2014 21:43

I like it. It's not noisily funny but I find it quietly amusing. Good observations, uncomfortable relationships, gentle humor. Both doll and em come across as v likeable.

Davros · 26/03/2014 13:42

Loved it in the end

DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 26/03/2014 17:29

Going to watch the final one tonightSmile

Thought it was very clever last week the way it was a total surprise that Em had a family and they brought her back down to earth the minute she hugged them.

Davros · 26/03/2014 17:48

Oh, I thought that was the final one! I look forward to seeing another episode then, lucky it's on Series Link