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Aug 19, 2014 · Pilot: Directed by Julie Anne Robinson. With Karen Gillan, Justice Joslin, John Cho, Allyn Rachel. A self-obsessed pharmaceutical sales rep who is megapopular on social media needs help making friends and being liked in real life, and so she turns to a marketing genius for tutelage in the series premiere of this modern take on "My Fair Lady."
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- Comedy, Romance
- Julie Anne Robinson
- 2014-08-19
Sep 8, 2017 · Throughout his years in Bored Panda, over 300 million people have read the posts he's written, which is probably more than he could count to. Brazilian pilot Daniel Centeno appears to have reached new heights with his dangerous selfie game, hanging out of the cockpit mid-air.
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By Max Nicholson
Posted: Aug 19, 2014 10:52 pm
Note: Selfie won't officially premiere on ABC until September 30, but the network has released the pilot early online. You can now watch it on Hulu.
Loosely based on My Fair Lady (which itself was adapted from George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion), ABC's latest comedy series Selfie follows the life of Eliza Dooley (a modern-day version of Eliza Doolittle), a woman who's obsessed with all things social media: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, you name it. (As a lowly sales rep at a pediatric pharmaceutical company, it isn't clear just how she amasses over a quarter of a million followers online, but whatever.)
It isn't until a devastating -- and trending -- mishap on a company flight that Eliza realizes she needs to find real people she can actually connect with instead of just "friends" online. For this, she goes to Henry Higenbottam (2014's Henry Higgins), a marketing self-image guru at the same company Eliza works at who reluctantly agrees to "rebrand" Eliza's image.
As you might expect, Eliza is just as intolerable as she sounds, making endless pop culture references via hashtags, slang and "abbrevs." I mean, obviously the point of her character is to annoy rational-thinking people -- Henry being one of them -- although, here, it gets to be pretty gratuitous, to the point of near-ridiculousness. That's likely a fault of the pilot's overworked script, penned by showrunner Emily Kapnek (Suburgatory).
Selfie is exactly as mind-numbing and irritating as it appears, at least on the surface. Despite its sliver of social media commentary, the jokes are instantly dated by Internet slang and up-to-the-minute pop culture references. However, Selfie's two leads, Karen Gillan and John Cho, kinda make it work, and they each bring their own unique comedic ...
- Max Nicholson
September 30. ( 2014-09-30) –. December 30, 2014. ( 2014-12-30) Selfie is an American television sitcom starring Karen Gillan and John Cho. Created and executive produced by Emily Kapnek for Warner Bros. Television, the series debuted on ABC during the 2014–15 television season. [1] [2] The series premiered on September 30, 2014. [3]
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Aug 20, 2014 · August 20, 2014. By Silas Lesnick. ABC has released online the pilot episode of their new sitcom, “Selfie,” starring Karen Gillan and John Cho. Although the episode won’t air until September ...
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Aug 20, 2014 · The first episode of Selfie, ABC’s new comedy is available online, giving millennials the opportunity to see just what middle-aged network executives think of them—the vacuous and annoying ...
