Praise Petey‘s generally upbeat, good-natured vibe keeps it from ever getting too grating, and a few of its jokes are clever enough to garner a chuckle. If only their collective charisma were matched by equally compelling scripts. Still, she’s a solid anchor for an appealing cast that also includes John Cho as Bandit, Petey’s sexy cowboy friend/nemesis/love interest Kiersey Clemons as Eliza, a no-nonsense local barkeep and Petey’s new BFF and Christine Baranski as White St. And it’s Petey who’s determined to modernize the organization from the inside, like a “She-EO of a super-toxic corporation.”Ĭoming off six seasons as a similar sweet-but-self-absorbed socialite role on Schitt’s Creek, Murphy could probably play Petey in her sleep - and the first five episodes sent to critics (of a ten-episode season) don’t exactly ask her to stretch her abilities. It’s Petey who’s uncomfortable with their traditions, like human sacrifice (of character actors, specifically) and daily orgies (though Petey’s dad’s wives are quick to clarify that he used the term loosely: “We mostly just helped him with the TV remote and listened to him describe movies he’d seen on airplanes”). The joke, I guess, is that glossy media types are a uniquely vapid bunch - which, fair enough, except that all of these observations would have felt stale 17 years ago when Meryl Streep eviscerated Anne Hathaway for presuming to be above it all in The Devil Wears Prada.īut after a series of catastrophes rob Petey of her job, her fiancé and her luxury apartment, she makes the desperate choice to move to New Utopia, located somewhere in the wilds of “West Carolina.” When she arrives, covered in mud and woefully unprepared for life beyond the high-rises of Manhattan, she’s embraced by a population already primed by her father’s prophecy that he’d be succeeded by the Great Daughter. Her fashion-magazine job consists of sorting “good clothes” from “bad ones,” seemingly at random, and trying to go unnoticed in meetings where editors argue over whether “shirt” or “pants” is in this season. “I’m Petey, a girl with a boys’ name, so you’re allowed to like me,” Murphy chirps in the premiere over a montage of her daily routine: coffee, therapy, yoga (which she also refers to as therapy), meditation (which she also refers to as therapy). Friday, July 21 (Freeform)Ĭast: Annie Murphy, John Cho, Kiersey Clemons, Stephen Root, Amy Hill, Christine Baranski
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