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67You may laugh, but you'll hate yourself afterward.
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63Like the main character herself, the show is crude and rough around the edges, but you can see glimmers of potential.
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50The show's just not as funny as Chelsea Handler is when she's playing Chelsea Handler.
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50If the writers relax their death grip on that formula and Handler stops choking the proceedings, Are You There, Chelsea? might be worth another look.
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Jan 9, 201250Many of the plotlines are lifted (poorly) from Handler's best-sellers.
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40Whenever Chelsea Handler is on screen in the new NBC comedy Are You There, Chelsea?, in which she plays not the title character but her sister Sloan, we see the hint of the better sitcom it wants to become.
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40A watered-down drink of a sitcom.
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40The problem isn't the performers....The problem is the jokes.
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Jan 11, 201240This isn't to say Are You There, Chelsea? is completely hopeless. There are bright spots. The brightest, predictably, is Handler.
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40Prepon manages to give Chelsea's raunchy lines and irritating actions--including the brush-off of that opening DUI--more zing and charm than the material merits.
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38In place of dialogue, we get one-liners.
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38[Laura Prepon] doesn't have any of the original's bone-tired, hard-earned scorn. [19 Jan 2012, p.42]
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37The most puzzling thing about Are You There, Chelsea? is who exactly thought it was a good idea. Because it's not.
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33The fictionalized Chelsea occupies that irritating middle ground where she's not likable enough to be watchable when she's just existing, and yet neutered enough that her bad behavior isn't actually all that funny.
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30The show is so wrapped up in moving the needle of apparently outrageous behavior that it never does anything but repeat itself.
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30Chelsea doesn't do anything to make the TV version of Chelsea interesting, likable or winning.
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30The show is gleefully rude in keeping with Ms. Handler's personal style, but 8:30 p.m. seems way too early for explicit sex jokes.
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30It's an awfully thin construct, and either too FX in its tawdriness or, alternately, not HBO enough in its execution.
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25Vulgarity and lack of taste aren't the issues here as much as a deadening single-mindedness.
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25Everything in Chelsea seems painfully forced.
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20The show gets by as the vodka of television comedy. It aims to have no taste.
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20The smarmy and incessant innuendo is more deafening than the laugh track, and yet no matter how low it stoops, it still lacks the zing and bite of Handler's cable antics.
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20If it sounds a bit thrown together for sitcom's sake, it is.
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16A little too raw, especially in this hour.