Whitney Cummings second project for this fall is 2 Broke Girls with Sex and the City producer Michael Patrick King. With the show being involved in a bidding war (CBS coming out on top) then I can only assume that there must be something to this show. Kat Dennings plays one of the broke girls and is a face that I see, recognise, but for the life of me can’t say where from…
Max (Kat Dennings) is a pessimistic girl that lives in New York City and works two jobs to try and carve out a living. She is a waitress, in a run down diner and a nanny, for a socialite. When we first meet her she seems so depressed that she would have to always take the tunnel for fear of jumping from a bridge. When another waitress gets fired Max asks for the chance to do all the work for two pay checks and to add to her dismay the manager (Matthew Moy) hires Caroline (Beth Behrs), daughter of a Ponzi scheme runner whom has been imprisoned as such all Caroline’s assests have been frozen and she is forced to get a job saying that she looked for something far from her social circle so as not to become embarrassed, settling on the diner. After an initial hatred for Caroline fueled by her spoiled upbringing Max finds her sleeping on the subway and offers her a couch to crash on. Caroline outs Max’s boyfriend as a cheater and so the two are left with each other. A rather chesey premise and execution but the acting is good and the girls seem quite genuine about their plight.
The jokes are not wholely original and the story of poor people in a diner has been rehashed enough times already. I would definitely watch this over Whitney but wouldn’t cry if it was lost from Tevo. The girls are the best part of this, and have a thelma and louise thing going on (with the dream of a cupcake shop) but the chef (Jonathan Kite) needs to be put down and I can’t for the life of me understand why a diner needs a greeter (Garrett Morris). All i can think is that they need him because you can’t make racist jokes without a black man in the room – that’s just racist, which possibly is why the manager is asian. These studios have a quota to hit?
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