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...When you're slinging pot in your suburban neighborhood to support your kids on your dead husband's meager insurance payout--that's when you can call yourself a desperate housewife. Mary-Louise Parker gave a performance so human and conflicted, you could practically see the needle of her moral compass spinning. Creator Jenji Kohan's writing put the new in nuance, as she drew not only Parker but her various upscale associates (including a surprisingly appealing Kevin Nealon as a stoner accountant) in a way that neither judged nor let them off the hook. The best comic suburban soap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 2005: Television | 12/16/2005 | See Source »

Sarah Jessica Parker wants you to hate her. In fact, she really wants you to hate...

Author: By Jessica C. Coggins, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Family Stone | 12/14/2005 | See Source »

...Meredith Morton, a prissy and uptight executive, meeting her boyfriend Everett Stone’s (Dermot Mulroney) parents for the first time, in “The Family Stone” Parker channels a woman more Bree Van Der Camp (of “Desperate Housewives”) than Carrie Bradshaw...

Author: By Jessica C. Coggins, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Family Stone | 12/14/2005 | See Source »

...awry. Parker’s traded-in her trademark Manohlos, cosmopolitans, and oversized flower pins for an unflattering corporate attire. Meredith is a woman more comfortable in trousers with her hair in a bun. She might as well be chewing on a cigar. It’s possible that Parker is trying to move out of her “Sex and the City” days, but this frigid ice queen role departs too far from Dolce & Gabbana, where she seems much more comfortable...

Author: By Jessica C. Coggins, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Family Stone | 12/14/2005 | See Source »

...Family Stone” is not the warm, holiday movie or romantic comedy it is billed to be, and unless you’re looking to end your own romance by dragging your date to this, you’re better off staying at home and watching Parker before she lost her Prada and her personality in the “Sex and the City?...

Author: By Jessica C. Coggins, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Family Stone | 12/14/2005 | See Source »

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