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 Selfie airs Tuesday nights at 8pm, starting September 30th on ABC. Selfie is the brand new ABC comedy created by Emily Kapnek (Suburgatory), starring Karen Gillan (NTSF:SD:SUV) as a hippy dippy social media-ite who falls on hard times and John Cho (Go On) as the curmudgeonly old man who teaches her how to be a better person. The pilot's been floating around the internet for awhile. You've probably seen it already. Its abysmal, but so was Suburgatory's, and Kapnek managed to turn that steaming pile of Red Bull and Stepford Wives jokes around for a somewhat successful three season run. I have similar hopes for Selfie, excepting Gillan's terrible American accent. What's the show about? This video will explain everything. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIn8365jJ9I Still with us? Follow Eliza and the show on social networking.     Latest Tweets from The_Doolio:  
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Bumping because the premiere everybody's already seen and hated is on tonight.
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Sep 30, 2014 22:17
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This wasn't that bad. It had some of the same elements I found intriguing in "Your'e the Worst". I don't know how far they can take the show. I'd imagine the ploy of trying to rehabilitate a self absorbed narcissist could get old fast. But, it could have some entertainment potential. I'll give it a chance.
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Oct 1, 2014 04:09
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I'm not sure I reacted to this the way the show "wanted" me to reacted to it. I didn't really think the whole vomit/shame airplane sequence was all that funny. I mostly just felt bad for Eliza, who was having a really awful day. Part of that is an affection for Karen Gillan from her time on Doctor Who and NTSF:SD:SUV. The other part is that Eliza doesn't really seem to be all that bad. Sure, she's self-absorbed, shallow and a bit clueless, but she doesn't seem actively malicious or evil. She might use her sex appeal to get a promotion, but she doesn't seem like she'd use it to have someone demoted on purpose. Meanwhile, I kind of loathe John Cho's Henry Higgs. He seems to be smugly self-righteous as well as manipulative and to be enjoying his power over another person's life a little bit too much. That's not down to Cho for my part so much as it is the Pygmalian/My Fair Lady story itself. I despise that story with its assumption that Eliza Doolittle is some kind of inferior clay to be molded and shaped into something worthy of men of quality. Plus, the Cho character seems unnecessary given that Eliza informs us in the first scenes of the show that she's already accomplished this kind of total physical/personality transformation once before when she decided she no long wanted to be "butt." Mostly, this concept seems underthought. There's not enough reason for these two people to be together for any length of time. Really, I'd like to see this show pulled and re-tooled as something a little less dated and misogynist. Maybe something like "Angel on my Iphone." On that show recently deceased marketing executive, John Cho, will only get into Heaven if he helps his vapid Scottish former assistant, Karen Gillan, awake to the world around her and become a better person. He helps her become self-aware and she helps him learn to pull the stick out of his butt and whip a party's rear end with it. johntfs fucked around with this message at 05:31 on Oct 1, 2014 |
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Oct 1, 2014 05:28
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There is some decent talent in this show. If they don't hold the writers strictly to the premise this could develop into something.
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Oct 1, 2014 08:24
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No one has complimented it yet but the header image is funnier than the first episode was.
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Oct 2, 2014 11:02
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I really wanted to like this and I didn't even get half way through the first episode. I'll keep it on the DVR for the actors but I so hope it gets better.
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Oct 3, 2014 16:36
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I'll give this another try tonight. Sometimes pilots are weirdly off-kilter. I really want to like this because Karen Gillan is adorable to me but last week's episode did not make it easy.
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Oct 7, 2014 17:54
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This is going to be a one-season-wonder and rightly so, based on the ratings. It might get a back nine, but that's a pretty big "might". I guess enjoy Karen while you can? Also Lt. Sulu deserves better.
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Oct 7, 2014 18:31
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This is a little better than the pilot. I like that things are more mutual with them taking halting steps into each others' worlds.
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Oct 8, 2014 01:18
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Yeah, the second episode was much better than the first. It's still not great, but I won't feel guilty for tuning into Gillan and Cho.
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Oct 8, 2014 11:43
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That green screen in the office environment was horrible. And the other girls in Eliza's apartment building liked her in the pilot, and now they completely hate her, despite very little time going by? Seemed strange. And I am thinking WAY too hard about a show that won't make it to the back half of its season.
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Oct 8, 2014 15:16
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Omne posted:That green screen in the office environment was horrible. And the other girls in Eliza's apartment building liked her in the pilot, and now they completely hate her, despite very little time going by? Seemed strange. And I am thinking WAY too hard about a show that won't make it to the back half of its season. They didn't like her in the pilot. They only liked giving her a make-under.
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Oct 9, 2014 04:56
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How adorable was Eliza in her book club outfit? 
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Oct 9, 2014 10:02
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Very. This show depends on Gillan and Cho's considerable charisma and timing getting past the horrible premise and writing.
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Oct 9, 2014 14:56
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BarbarousBertha posted:They didn't like her in the pilot. They only liked giving her a make-under. Huh, I must have missed a scene or two. I thought Eliza talks to her in the elevator about her problem, the neighbor says that she didn't know Eliza knew who she was or was surprised she was talking to her, and then the neighbor and her friends give her a make-over for the wedding.
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Oct 9, 2014 20:02
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Omne posted:Huh, I must have missed a scene or two. I thought Eliza talks to her in the elevator about her problem, the neighbor says that she didn't know Eliza knew who she was or was surprised she was talking to her, and then the neighbor and her friends give her a make-over for the wedding. Doesn't sound like you missed a scene, actually. In the elevator Eliza bargains for Bryn's help by offering to never anonymously complain about the book club again. Bryn replies, "That was you? You're lucky make unders are my everything." They just got a kick out of using Eliza as a My size Barbie.
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Oct 10, 2014 01:36
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Yeah the show seems kind of inherently sexist. Not to mention it's clear the writers think that people overusing social medial is a personal problem when it's probably indicative of a more macro "problem" with society.
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Oct 10, 2014 01:54
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My biggest issue with the show is that it feels like there are some smart writers forcing themselves to write too broadly. The best scene was the one where Cho is talking with his ex. And the worst part of that scene was when they kept trying to push the lactation joke. They need to trust the audience a bit more. The conflict and comedy in that scene was that tagging himself made him look creepy. Everyone knows that illicit thrill in looks my up old flames, and the fear of them finding out you might still be attached. That's where that joke should have been. And they just miss so many opportunities and are so lazy sometimes. I loved how Cho went "tappity tap tap" and had a full profile with picture. If you're gonna make fun of making a Facebook profile this late, make it him agonizing over which pic to use, or whether he needs to put his religion or something. But overall, when she drops the "you're facebooking on your desktop? That's so 2011" joke, I was just thinking "making Facebook jokes? That's so 2011." Both episodes have only had one laugh out loud moment for me. The last one was "you smell like dead people." "We all do."
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Oct 10, 2014 02:37
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This show fills the hole that Suburgatory left in my heart when it was cancelled, and as much as I didn't think Karen Gillan was a good actress coming into it, she's done alright. Consider me on board for the 11 episodes we end up getting before ABC realizes they gave another sitcom to that twee lady who writes songs and makes shows that are weird.
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Oct 14, 2014 22:23
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  Xibanya posted:Yeah the show seems kind of inherently sexist. Not to mention it's clear the writers think that people overusing social medial is a personal problem when it's probably indicative of a more macro "problem" with society. I think the problem is that Eliza is a broader archetype than Tessa was, making the show seem more inherently sexist despite being structured like Suburgatory. Like Eliza in Selfie, Tessa was saved and instructed by a male authority figure (her father) and taught the wrongness of her beliefs by sympathetic women (Dallas and Dahlia). Tessa was both the show's protagonist, and its main villain, and it never hid the fact that her beliefs about conformity in the suburbs were inherently wrong-minded. The reason it didn't come off as sexist was because Tessa's counter-culture attitude gave her an air of intelligence and sophistication. She was wrong not because she was stupid, but because she embraced a different cultural norm. On the other hand, we assume Eliza is shallow and stupid (even though she's not) because those are qualities we associate with people who engage in social media. Thus, we're inclined to be less sympathetic towards Eliza than we were towards Tessa, and view her portrayal as seemingly more sexist despite, as I said, being virtually the same. Irish Joe fucked around with this message at 23:42 on Oct 14, 2014 |
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Oct 14, 2014 23:38
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About to eat a bowl of banana peppers
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Oct 15, 2014 01:05
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Husbands, right? The old ball and... penis
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Oct 15, 2014 01:08
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WHO SHE BEEEEEEE WITH
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Oct 15, 2014 01:10
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Twitter quitter, facebook ghost (She also went on myspace. Who the gently caress goes on myspace?)
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Oct 15, 2014 01:12
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Postal Parcel posted:Twitter quitter, facebook ghost People looking for slightly older people. Also, that dance scene was adorable.
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Oct 15, 2014 01:13
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Yoshifan823 posted:People looking for slightly older people. quote:Also, that dance scene was adorable.
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Oct 15, 2014 01:15
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Please. Please. A-please-please.
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Oct 15, 2014 01:19
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Yelp-stalking. Is that a real thing?
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Oct 15, 2014 01:21
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I love Charlie.
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Oct 15, 2014 01:23
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My family owns a Buca di Beppo, but...
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Oct 15, 2014 01:24
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Alright, I was wrong Karen Gillan is not a bad actress. She really sells this character in a way that I don't think too many other actresses could.
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Oct 15, 2014 01:25
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Yoshifan823 posted:Alright, I was wrong Karen Gillan is not a bad actress. She really sells this character in a way that I don't think too many other actresses could. There's still something missing, but it seems like it's not the leads
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Oct 15, 2014 01:32
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Karen Gillan's outfit game makes Gossip Girl look like a Macy's catalog. John Cho wearing a suit under his tearaway suit made me laugh out loud. The second tearaway suit wasn't funny though. Josh Lyman fucked around with this message at 03:45 on Oct 15, 2014 |
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Oct 15, 2014 03:32
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I like that they're keeping the Suburgatory dynamic of having the two main characters interact, but also have their own lives and storylines in the show where there's often only the minimum of interaction between them. Suburgatory did this with Tessa and her father George, and I'm glad they're doing it again with Eliza and Henry.
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Oct 15, 2014 21:56
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This show is entertaining enough. I guess my bar is pretty low (I watch the Mindy project so yes.)
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Oct 19, 2014 23:30
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Basically my exact thoughts, TMP and all.
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Oct 20, 2014 17:59
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Oct 21, 2014 21:49
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Fewer than 10,000 followers. Hmm.
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Oct 21, 2014 21:58
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I thought I'd make AND enjoy a BIG salad.
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