All-American Girl: The Complete Series DVD Review

[Pavan]

All-American Girl - The Complete Series Review:
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/allamericangirlthecompleteseriesdvdreview.html

[HuntingtonM15]

Great review! I can't wait to see the show again.

[Dean Winchester]

I have never seen the show before but I do love Margaret Cho, even though I did think her last concert went too far into the political area instead of the comedy area.

I cannot wait to get my copy of it as well, especially after seeing both seeing and reading about her drama with ABC and the producers of this show in both her live act and in her autobiography "I'm The One That I Want"

[vashti1999]

I watched a few episodes when it aired. What I remember most was the woman who played Margaret's mother. She was funny.

[vashti1999]

What I remember most was the woman who played Margaret's mother. She was funny.


That should be grandmother, not mother.

[Dean Winchester]

I got the set today, I watched the first two episodes.

If you are familiar with Margaret's stand-up, "Grandma" is a total variation of Margaret's mother, which is one of her most beloved stand-up routines. It's not a great sitcom, but it's kinda fun to watch and it's interesting seeing Margaret Cho censoring herself long enough to be in a family sitcom setting.

[TV Knowledge Fan]

...and I can understand WHY Margaret Cho went off the deep end after it went off the air. She deserved a better show than that....

[Chocolate Moose]

Terrible show. I liked the mother a lot but the grandmother was way too cheesy for me.

[waichingliu81]

i watched all- american girl when it was shown in england years ago, and frankly i wasn't impressed by it. being chinese myself, i was in a way looking forward to seeing this considering all the hype and the fact that it was the first time in ages that a chinese- though in the case of this show a chinese american family was portrayed in a sitcom. my god it was terrible, it is and was one of the worst sitcoms i've ever witnessed; it was so unfunny that after a couple of episodes i didn't watch it ever again. besides, why did the cast hire margaret cho? seeing as she was and is korean and NOT chinese? back in the days, they could've hired the young lucy liu,or martial law's kelly hu or even ex ER- dr chen herself, ming-na wen in the main role. they are chinese americans in their own right-unlike cho who as i said was korean

[TGFNickAtNite]

i watched all- american girl when it was shown in england years ago, and frankly i wasn't impressed by it. being chinese myself, i was in a way looking forward to seeing this considering all the hype and the fact that it was the first time in ages that a chinese- though in the case of this show a chinese american family was portrayed in a sitcom. my god it was terrible, it is and was one of the worst sitcoms i've ever witnessed; it was so unfunny that after a couple of episodes i didn't watch it ever again. besides, why did the cast hire margaret cho? seeing as she was and is korean and NOT chinese? back in the days, they could've hired the young lucy liu,or martial law's kelly hu or even ex ER- dr chen herself, ming-na wen in the main role. they are chinese americans in their own right-unlike cho who as i said was korean

The show was based on a Korean-American family, not Chinese. Margaret Cho, due to her rising star status at the time as a fresh new comedian being a regular on the Arsenio Hall Show, an opener for Jerry Seinfeld, & on a Bob Hope special, was approached a concept to do a show revolving around her as many comedians at the time were getting their own sitcoms (Roseanne, Jerry Seinfeld, Ellen DeGeneres). Although it stated in the closing credits that the show was based on Margaret Cho's stand up comedy, Margaret clearly stated it was NOT in interviews and on the DVD itself. The show definitely was not emmy award winning material by all means. The producers tried too hard to make the show work (even hiring an "Asian Consultant" for Cho to try to make her appear more Asian, Cho would joke about it in her later stand up routines) and because the show's premise kept getting changed constantly, it never found its groove and eventually met it's fate due to poor ratings. Though it made history as being the first show ever to prominently feature an Asian Family, it was one of those shows that "could have been".