DVD REVIEW: JUST SHOOT ME, Seasons One & Two

Shane | 3 June 2016 | Reply

DVD REVIEW: JUST SHOOT ME, Seasons One & Two
Shock Entertainment
Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar
7/10

Created by Pamela Fryman and set in a super-glossy New York fashion magazine Blush’s offices, Just Shoot Me celebrates the absurdities of that industry and not only understands, but celebrates the dichotomy of such trashy content being obsessed over by otherwise intelligent and successfully independent women.

The show starts with Maya Gallo (Laura San Giacomo), a serious journalist whose career takes a massive hit, reluctantly asking her wayward Dad Jack (George Segal) for a job.

Determined to bring some real journo cred to the magazine, Maya is instead tasked with writing such trash as Ten Sexiest Lipsticks and Orgasms In Three Easy Steps. Throw in her new workmates – editor Nina Van Horne (Wendie Malick), an aging ex-model, photographer Elliott DiMauro (Enrico Colantoni), who has an appetite for the women he shoots, and Dennis Finch (David Spade), playing to type as a lowly gofer receptionist with a sarcastic and sardonic tongue – and Maya is not happy.

Jokes pop like firecrackers, with the first series of only six episodes acting as a scene setter, before the writers and cast really hit their stride in season two – all twenty-five feisty episodes of it.

There’s nothing particularly high brow about Just Shoot Me, but there are laughs a-plenty to be had, and the show went on for another five full seasons after these first two.