The ABC empty nester sitcom from The New Adventures of Old Christine creator Kari Lizer debuts with stock characters and unfunny jokes, while Sedgwick's Jean isn't written to be interesting. "TV has become a more hospitable place for female midlife-crisis stories, but Jean — at least in the Call Your Mother pilot, the only episode made available to critics — is shorn of the kind of thorns, idiosyncrasies and even emotional turbulence that almost always accompany such plights," says Inkoo Kang.
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TOPICS: Call Your Mother, ABC, Kari Lizer, Kyra Sedgwick