Kirstie

By the end of a few episodes everything meshes nicely, and the prospect of watching more has become enticing.

Kirstie, with Ms. Alley mugging through her role as a kindhearted narcissist, is more like the Ford Focus. If it’s late and it’s all the rental company has left, you might as well take it.... Rhea Perlman is funny as Thelma, but the real revelation of Kirstie is Michael Richards as the shady chauffeur, Frank.

The expected jokes about Botox, nose jobs, and Alley's weight abound and are executed with old-school shticky competence, like a middling '90s sitcom that never was. [6 Dec 2013, p.74]

The comedy is predictable on every level, which is part of the TV Land formula.

The jokes, while occasionally funny, almost all feel reheated.

A comedy so broad it might as well wander off the sides of the screen.

Basically, think “All About Eve,” if it were remade as a woefully broad TV Land sitcom, rife with jokes about promiscuity, ego and of course, weight.