George ( Lori Petty), an eccentric struggling artist with a punk hairdo, was working as a waitress at Hooters to pay her bills, while living in artsy Venice, California. Margot ( Karyn Parsons), her best friend and roommate, was a onetime actress who had left her wealthy philandering husband. Together they sought fun and romance on a very limited budget. Hal ( Sullivan Walker), was the sarcastic owner of the restaurant where they hung out, and Nelson ( John Ortiz) the flashy gay bartender. Among their neighbors were youthful Hamilton ( Fab Filippo) who thought George was wonderful, and Lance ( Khalil Kain), an ambitious restaurant manager and social climber. Margot's much married mother, Ann ( Concetta Tomei), tried to get her daughter to move back home because she believed that George had always been a bad influence.
Star Lori Petty was one of the creators, producers and writers of this flop that was the first casualty of the 1996-1997 season.
A Review From The New York Times
Lush Life
''Party Girl'' may be too tame, but ''Lush Life'' is actively bad. This new sitcom (which follows ''Party Girl'' on Fox) involves two girlhood friends who become roommates. George (Lori Petty) is a struggling painter, as sexually blunt as Mary in ''Party Girl'' is discreet. Margot (Karyn Parsons) has just walked out on her philandering husband. The two actresses also created the show.
Ms. Petty tries excruciatingly hard to make her character arty. She wears a purple kimono with a red feather boa. She has platinum cropped hair, and speaks with a croaking voice and a mannered, gulping delivery. She seems to be doing a poor imitation of Cyndi Lauper, circa ''Girls Just Want to Have Fun'' (not exactly on the cutting edge anymore). This annoying performance makes the otherwise pedestrian ''Lush Life'' almost impossible to sit through.
LUSH LIFE
FOX, tonight at 9:30
(Channel 5 in New York)
Created by Yvette Lee Bowser, Lori Petty and Karyn Parsons. Executive producer and writer, Ms. Bowser. Produced by Pamela Grant. Co-producers and co-writers, Ms. Petty and Ms. Parsons. A SisterLee Production in association with Warner Brothers.
WITH: Lori Petty (Georgette), Karyn Parsons (Margot), Sullivan Walker (Hal), Khalil Kain (Lance), John Ortiz (Nelson), Fab Filippo (Hamilton) and Concetta Tomei (Ann, Davis, Jefferson and Ali).
A Review from Entertainment Weekly
TV Review
Lush Life
C-By Ken Tucker
It's awfully nice that Fox, the network whose sitcoms used to specialize in male sexist piggery, should now give an hour to two new shows featuring women as strong protagonists. Alas, both Party Girl and Lush Life seem lamentably wrongheaded. Party Girl, based on last year's feature film, replaces Parker Posey with Christine Taylor, so good as Marcia in the Brady Bunch movies. As a ditz who shakes her groove thing at night and works in a library by day, however, Taylor isn't given anything to do other than impersonate Alicia Silverstone, which is disappointing — as she proves in Bunch, this is an actress who knows where the party is.
Better to disappoint than to irritate, though: Lush Life stars Lori (Tank Girl) Petty and Karyn (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air) Parsons as swingin'-single roommates. You can glean that the producers had a good idea — a sitcom that explores the bond between two smart, aggressive women — but the jokes are meager and the whole enterprise seems curiously rushed — relax, women! Then, too, Petty gives the most peculiarly stilted line readings of this young TV season. I'm being harder on Lush because it has more promise — I'm interested in odd-couple characters — but it's promise unfulfilled.
Party Girl and Lush Life both hope to benefit from their lead-in show, Melrose Place, but these days, the ludicrous Melrose is funnier. Party Girl: C Lush Life: C-
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