Hilarious SNL vet Molly Shannon and movie star Selma Blair would seem like a great comic pair for TV, right?
Wrong.
Shannon and Blair star as Kath and Kim, a flip-flop-wearing, tacky jewelry-donning mother-daughter duo. All we know about them is that Kath (Shannon) is a single mother who has had a series of relationships with crazy men (like the guy who closes his eyes when he talks) and Kim (Blair) is the selfish and immature daughter who wants to divorce her husband because no one told her she had to ask her husband about his day and make dinner.
And we’re not talking about a patriarchal 50s-like era when women wore aprons and baked all day while tending to her children and husband. He just wants her to grow up.
“We aren’t billionaires, Kim. We can’t go to Applebees every night,” he tells her.
While the show is trying to score laughs from trashy, crazy characters and situations à la My Name Is Earl, Kath & Kim lacks Earl’s heart.
Instead, Kath walks around in 80s workout clothes only Jane Fonda and Richard Simmons would love pining over her sandwich-selling boyfriend and Kim walks around in short shorts and flip flops whining and acting like a spoiled 10-year-old rather than a 30-year-old woman.
That’s the other thing: how old are these characters supposed to be? Shannon is only eight years older than Blair, so it makes it hard to relate to them as mother and daughter.
The show also lacks a substantial or realistic plot. For example, Kath upsets her boyfriend when he catches her eating a sandwich from a competing fast food restaurant at the mall. Ooh… how dare she?
If Kath & Kim wants to get laughs from a crazy mother-daughter duo, the writers need to give Shannon and Blair deserving material. Shannon and Blair could handle it.
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