Critic Reviews
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Entertainment Weekly Henry Goldblatt
Everything [Kirstie] Alley's Fat Actress should've been: warm, warts-and-all self-satire. [31 Mar 2006, p.58] |
| 80 |
Los Angeles Times Robert Lloyd
While this sort of thing has been done before -- "Curb Your Enthusiasm" on the high end of Hollywood self-referentiality, and the nasty, brutish and short-lived "Fat Actress" with Kirstie Alley on the low -- it has been done here exceedingly well. |
| 75 |
New York Post Linda Stasi
[A] very witty, sometimes brilliantly insightful hybrid sitcom. |
| 70 |
Newsday Diane Werts
The writing is pointed, the direction tight. But what really makes it work is Tori herself, light, bright and vulnerably likable. |
| 70 |
Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron
She creates an appealing character despite all the preconceptions, many of which are acknowledged and dispensed with in the first few scenes. |
| 63 |
New York Daily News David Hinckley
As Hollywood comedies go, "So Notorious" is better than "Fat Actress" or Lisa Kudrow's "The Comeback," but not in the same league as "Curb Your Enthusiasm" or "Entourage." |
| 60 |
Boston Globe Joanna Weiss
This is a pleasant, farcical romp through the familiar terrain of obnoxious roommates, dating mishaps, and Hollywood sets. |
| 60 |
Slate Troy Patterson
This is up-to-the-minute celebrity kitsch--zippy, knowing, and joyfully hollow. |
| 60 |
LA Weekly Robert Abele
She’s turned what assuredly were hurtful years of feeling like a show-biz freak into friendly TV fodder that relieves viewers of the need to point while they snicker. |
| 50 |
People Weekly Tom Gliatto
It's like Lisa Kudrow's Comeback without the satiric contempt. [10 Apr 2006, p.35] |
| 20 |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
The biggest problem with "so noTORIous" is that the laughs, when they come, are few and far between. |
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