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10The show is a full-fledged Fox flop.
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30Sadly, although Jezebel is packed with Sherman-Palladino’s trademark snappy banter, it’s a cold, brittle misfire.
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30All evidence to the contrary, the show has the potential of being very funny, but only if the writers can choose subtlety over shtick even a quarter of the time.
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10As for the lack of laughs, you're just going to have to take my word for it, unless you want to risk serious brain damage.
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25Everything feels forced, right down to the dialogue, wherein the characters all talk the way writers write when they're stretching to set up a joke.
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25Even rousing viewers to stay awake would be a big accomplishment.
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30It's a very special, frustrating kind of bad, one with the power to actually change history.
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10Our mouths may be open, but more likely agape than laughing.
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20Despite the cast, Jezebel James is not a momentous arrival.
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20Miscast and only intermittently funny, Jezebel James misfires on all cylinders.
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25Not many women will want to come back after seeing it because the first 30 minutes are a complete and utter mess.
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20Somewhere, things went very wrong, and the comedy turns out to be a flat, unappealing mess.
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30Everything about Jezebel feels too broad.
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30It's a weird, tone-deaf mismatch of talents, styles and genre.
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30Even without a death slot on Fridays, this strained story would be a tough sell.
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25Even if the performances were better and the scripts were funnier, Jezebel would still be saddled with one of the most preposterous, off-putting setups in sitcom history.
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30Jezebel James might have fared better shaped into an hourlong dramedy, instead of being shoehorned into a lightly serialized sitcom format that plays poorly to her strengths as a writer.
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SeanF.9
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BrandonS.0Canceled already! Thank God.