- Network: VH1
- Series Premiere Date: Aug 21, 2008
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To be sure, this is the sort of engineered reality in which things mostly happen because someone is there to film them, and not the other way around. But that it is only a partial, edited view of its star--she has, for one thing, a husband, artist-provocateur Al Ridenour, who is neither seen nor heard--doesn't mean that real thoughts and feelings don't come through. It's best when they do.
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No one's telling her what to do or say anymore, but it's hard not to look at The Cho Show as the celebreality-era redo of All-American Girl.
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Her way lets viewers glimpse at parts of her personal life (her house, her parents) but carefully withholds other details.
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Cho has long been an acquired taste, and - while her fans will luxuriate in these 22 minutes--few newbies will acquire that tonight.
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The best part of the show is watching Cho's standup act. Other than that, I really don't care to watch someone pick out clothes and talk to her "Glam Squad."
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It amounts to little more than a hokey infomercial for her brand.
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Liking Cho, I wanted to like The Cho Show. Liking Cho, I couldn't.
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If you didn’t already know that Ms. Cho has been a great friend to gay men, she makes that point often enough here. Unfortunately she doesn’t make many others.
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Her latest showcase suffers from an increasingly common reality-TV deficiency: It's too staged to be convincing, and too unscripted to be reliably funny.
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Most “celebreality” shows are probably staged to some degree, but Cho’s show seems more contrived than most.
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The Cho Show is the television equivalent of anti-matter: no scripts, no punch lines, just Cho hanging out with her self-consciously weird entourage. What a waste of one of the most scandalously funny comedians in America!
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 4
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Mixed: 2 out of 4
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Negative: 1 out of 4
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RicoAug 22, 2008