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Whitney: “Pilot”

I heard so many horror stories about this TV show that I was actually surprised to find myself actually enjoying it. I am not going to pretend it is perfect. The laugh track was more than a little overused in the first episode and apart from an Anglo character's metrosexual Indian-American boyfriend, most of the characters were way too familiar from other sitcoms.

But Whitney Cummings herself -- who, of course, plays the title character -- was pretty likeable and so was Chris D'Elia, the actor who played her live-in boyfriend. If nothing else, it was more enjoyable than Workaholics -- for what little that is worth.

And it says something amusing about how far America has come from the time when a man and a woman living together without being married were considered to be doing something that was only done by shameless hippies and wild-eyed bohemians that the pilot episode's emphasis on equal rights for unmarried heterosexual couples was actually treated by some critics as being old hat.

Oh, well. The more things change...