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Hollywood Reporter Review
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In the pilot, the beautiful lead has a one-night stand with a charming guy only to be shocked the next morning when she learns he has authority over her at work. It happened on "Grey's Anatomy" last year, and now it's happening again on WB Network's "Pepper Dennis." Maybe this sort of thing is more common than anyone suspects.
"Pepper Dennis" stars former supermodel Rebecca Romijn as a Chicago TV reporter who is ambitious and romantic, with both sides fighting each other to a draw. She cherishes a picture of herself with Walter Cronkite, taken when she was a girl, even though she practices a type of "gotcha" journalism that would give Cronkite hives. At the same time, she's hung up on the new news anchor, Charlie Babcock (Josh Hopkins), to the point where she spends as much time conjecturing about the propriety of workplace romance than getting any work done.
There is something to be said for the idea of creating a series about a spunky TV reporter simultaneously fighting her heart and deadlines to deliver a sizzling story that likely won't even be remembered the next morning. Romijn, however, is miscast in the role. Especially in the world of TV, it's hard to imagine someone with her stunning looks and ambition having to struggle so hard, whether it's to get the story or to get the guy. Romijn plunges into scenes of messy physical comedy, but who's she kidding? News starlets don't get dragged by limos until they fall face first into mud puddles. That kind of thing is strictly for the producers.
In the pilot-premiere, Pepper's sister Kathy (fellow magazine cover girl Brooke Burns) leaves her wealthy but indifferent husband and pampered lifestyle to move in unannounced with Pepper. By the third commercial break, Kathy has a job as the TV station receptionist. Other cast members include Kimmy Kim (Lindsay Price), Pepper's makeup artist and confidante; Blanca Martinez (Alexandra Barreto), the weather girl and rival for Charlie; and Chick (Rider Strong), the geeky cameraman with a crush on Pepper. For the most part, they are as thinly drawn as the billboards around town touting the new news anchor.
The direction by Shawn Levy is sharp, and the production design is convincing. You can even overlook that the script from Gretchen J. Berg and Aaron Harberts presents local TV newsgathering as a carnival sideshow in which the only story worth pursuing is the kind that comes with dramatic video and breathless reporting. Too often, that's perilously close to the truth. Still, at some point you'd like to see a lead who does more than pingpong between stories that are hiccups in the daily routine of office flirtation. For someone named Pepper, this character is awfully bland.
Original article: HollywoodReporter.com |
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