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Everything [Kirstie] Alley's Fat Actress should've been: warm, warts-and-all self-satire. [31 Mar 2006, p.58]
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While this sort of thing has been done before -- "Curb Your Enthusiasm" on the high end of Hollywood self-referentiality, and the nasty, brutish and short-lived "Fat Actress" with Kirstie Alley on the low -- it has been done here exceedingly well.
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[A] very witty, sometimes brilliantly insightful hybrid sitcom.
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The writing is pointed, the direction tight. But what really makes it work is Tori herself, light, bright and vulnerably likable.
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She creates an appealing character despite all the preconceptions, many of which are acknowledged and dispensed with in the first few scenes.
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As Hollywood comedies go, "So Notorious" is better than "Fat Actress" or Lisa Kudrow's "The Comeback," but not in the same league as "Curb Your Enthusiasm" or "Entourage."
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This is a pleasant, farcical romp through the familiar terrain of obnoxious roommates, dating mishaps, and Hollywood sets.
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This is up-to-the-minute celebrity kitsch--zippy, knowing, and joyfully hollow.
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She’s turned what assuredly were hurtful years of feeling like a show-biz freak into friendly TV fodder that relieves viewers of the need to point while they snicker.
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It's like Lisa Kudrow's Comeback without the satiric contempt. [10 Apr 2006, p.35]
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The biggest problem with "so noTORIous" is that the laughs, when they come, are few and far between.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 48 out of 54
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Mixed: 2 out of 54
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Negative: 4 out of 54
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ralpvOct 16, 2006awesome show and hilarious my favorite so far
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S.LazarioJul 4, 2006
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SebastienCMay 31, 2006I love it... Tori, you rock !!!