The Positively Positive

I was a little late to this show since I was out of town when it premiered. When I got back I heard about it and immediately set my DVR to record.

Boy am I glad I did. I can honestly say this show has me laughing harder than almost anything else I watch all week. Yet it also has some moments too, being about a woman who faces her share of challenges (paparazzi invading her privacy, tabloids publishing vicious articles and pictures, struggling with her weight).

This week the hilarity came when one of Kirstie’s employees, Jim (handyman and also her “chubby buddy”) got a little under the weather. Knowing that his wife was out of town, Kirstie offers up her bed to Jim, offering to take care of him for 48 hours. Jim then basically takes over, using the intercom to demand everything from magazines to scented candles.

This week the slightly more serious moments came from Kirstie giving a real-life challenge to her son True. The 17 year old is engaged (planning to marry when he’s 18) and his mom decided that he needed to know what it was like to be a man and feel the pressure of having to provide for a family. So she challenged him to get a paying gig (he’s a musician in a band) in five days. It was fun watching him man-up to the task as at first he felt it couldn’t be done, but later felt the flush of success when he pulled it off.

The best part of the show for me is always Kirstie’s voiceovers. As the camera zooms in on her often wacky facial expressions, we get to hear what’s going on in that mind of hers. Without those, I don’t think the show would be half as funny as it is.

Overall a great show that manages to make me laugh (hard) every week and also shows me a woman who is a lot like many of us out there, struggling with her own issues just as the rest of us struggle with ours. The difference is that her life is much funnier than mine so I’m glad she’s the one with the show. I don’t have lemurs. I really need to get some lemurs.

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