TMC
01-28-2025, 05:14 AM
https://jacksonupperco.com/2025/01/28/the-ten-best-the-new-adventures-of-old-christine-episodes-of-season-five/
Old Christine’s final season is its worst in terms of sitcommery, for while it’s funnier than Four and takes more pains to showcase Julia Louis-Dreyfus, the centralized Christine character has lost her shape. Sometimes she’s aggressive and hot-tempered like, namely, Seinfeld’s vindictive and selfish Elaine, but mostly she’s just overly broad: a catch-all for any exaggerated comic trait — a lazy, uneducated, self-serving, vapid, clumsy, chaotic, hot mess. Last week, I compared her to Grace Adler, but I’d say this year also sees traces of the bumbling and randomly quirky Liz Lemon. Indeed, with 30 Rock scribe Jack Burditt taking a key role on staff, this comparison reveals the overall arc of this character, as she’s become bigger and less precise en masse — taking on attributes of Elaine, Grace, and Liz (three very different types) because she’s basically any ol’ sitcom goof now, existing within sillier and less individualized stories.
Old Christine’s final season is its worst in terms of sitcommery, for while it’s funnier than Four and takes more pains to showcase Julia Louis-Dreyfus, the centralized Christine character has lost her shape. Sometimes she’s aggressive and hot-tempered like, namely, Seinfeld’s vindictive and selfish Elaine, but mostly she’s just overly broad: a catch-all for any exaggerated comic trait — a lazy, uneducated, self-serving, vapid, clumsy, chaotic, hot mess. Last week, I compared her to Grace Adler, but I’d say this year also sees traces of the bumbling and randomly quirky Liz Lemon. Indeed, with 30 Rock scribe Jack Burditt taking a key role on staff, this comparison reveals the overall arc of this character, as she’s become bigger and less precise en masse — taking on attributes of Elaine, Grace, and Liz (three very different types) because she’s basically any ol’ sitcom goof now, existing within sillier and less individualized stories.