Before ‘Fleabag,’ there were the fraught sister dynamics on ‘What I Like About You.’ Writer kyndallrene looks back at the hit WB series.
—were always a harder sell for the frog network. While many of its ’90s and early 2000s sitcoms developed a beloved cult following and gained a larger viewership through syndication, ratings paled in comparison to the primetime selections on ABC, CBS, NBC, and UPN, with which The WB would eventually merge. Likewise, it’s an interesting exercise in pop culture research to revisit the channel’s mid- to low-performing sitcoms and see which stories aged poorly or which were ahead of their time.
Re-watching it as an adult, however, I was mostly struck by how the show nails the sororal dynamic between Holly and Valerie Tyler , which always felt intimately close to my own.
Of course, rewatching this series as a Bynes fan comes with some emotional baggage, too. During the show’s funniest moments, you can’t help but mourn what could’ve been for the promising actress before a series of legal troubles and mental health issues brought her career to a halt in the early 2010s.
During a time of reckoning for famous women who’ve faced harassment and bullying in the media, she seems like a likely project for fans eager to rehabilitate her image and seek some justice for her public mistreatment. Whether that moment arrives or not, Bynes’s art and comedic genius still remains.
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