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Seasons(6) / Episodes(138)
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Sassy, streetwise Max (Kat Dennings) works two jobs just to get by, one of which is waiting tables during the night shift at the retro-hip Williamsburg Diner. Sophisticated Caroline (Beth Behrs) is an uptown trust fund princess who's having a run of bad luck that forces her to reluctantly give waitressing a shot. At first, Max sees Caroline as yet another in a long line of inept servers she must cover for, but she's surprised to find that Caroline has as much substance as she does style. When Caroline discovers Max's knack for baking amazing cupcakes, she sees a lucrative future for them, but they first need to raise the start-up money. (official distributor synopsis)
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Even my weakness for sarcastic women can't deny the fact that by the middle of the first season, the concept has become irritatingly exhausted. Unless there is a more radical shift by whatever means, by whoever, and wherever, there is no point in bothering with it any further. For now, it gets a weaker four stars...
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Season 1: It started promisingly, actually more than promisingly... Two sympathetic heroines, one a female version of Bernard Black and the other a more sympathetic version of Paris Hilton. Fresh and novel humor, a large number of allusions, the divine horse Chestnut, the vigorous cashier Earl and the ambiguous chef Oleg. Add to this a goal for the future, i.e., to make money and start a private bakery... Really great. But then came episode fifteen and with it Sophie, a character I would murder someone for. And worst of all, the show probably won't get rid of her and the matron will become more and more "important". I take off the originally intended fourth star for her and for the end of the series, which was not special at all for being spread over two episodes.___Season 2: I’m not adding a fourth star, because the evil named Sophie has intensified and is much more unbearable than in the first season. It’s too bad, because otherwise it's really quite a fresh show.___Season 3: Unfortunately, the third season is even weaker than the previous one. The humor rides on a rather expected, simple and cheap wave, the episodes don't really have any connecting story, like in the first series making money to open a shop, plus the unbearable Sophie and the change in Czech dubbing, which makes both heroines sound like geese. I'd give the first season four stars, the second three, and this one two. So, on average, it amounts to three.
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