Notes on "Notes from the Underbelly"

I'll tell you right now, I've been unimpressed with this show since I first saw the previews months ago, but the blogging and podcasting world (I dwell in) was buzzing about it right before it premiered last week and I just kept hearing how is was just "so funny"....

Recent career gal turned working mommy turned stay-at-home mommy/station-wagon-driving-queen-of-suburbia, I figured since I'm the target audience for this show, I should at least give it a whirl. This weekend, I logged into the ABC website and watched the first episode online...

Actually, I shut my laptop after first five minutes and had to force myself to watch the rest of it earlier this evening so I could accurately blog about it.

Here is my review: YAWN!

What little television I watch, I watch to escape, not re-live my daily life... and this show is basically the last year and half of my life, but not the good parts. Just the ridiculous, stereotypical, trite parts... I guess it would be funny if I didn't already have all of these people in my real life.

Let's see here..

Eager, fellow new-parents that have read too many of "the books"... CHECK

Career-driven, cynical, self-centered, alcoholic, sex-crazed, yet supportive best friend... how did you know?

Fleet of Stepford Mommies with perfect babies, perfect clothes, and perfect boobies... MYTH

Earnest, over-protective husband... CHECK

New parents who live to corner you so they can reveal how "horrific" parenting really is... CHECK in abundance.

I admit there were a few funny lines, but the overall appeal of the show was ruined by "Heeeey, my arms were never THAT skinny and my waist THAT tiny even before I was pregnant. Bitch."

Alright, maybe that doesn't have anything to do with show, but how many gags about cravings and maternity clothes can I really endure?

The next episode promises a rousing debate about working mom versus stay-at-home mom between none other than the workaholic and the housewife. Ohhh... how so original! I'll pass.

I guess I was just hoping upon hope for more... Oh well, I give it a "meh".