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Some thoughts for American fans of Miranda, the British sitcom on which Call Me Kat is based:

For us -- the few, the proud, the self-professedly quirky -- this reincarnation is liable to stir up old feelings. From the cold open direct address, Call Me Kat establishes itself as a descendant of the original: the joke shop is now a cat cafe and Stevie's been split into 2 characters to run it, but we've still got our oddball heroine and her dashing love interest (who we hope to find out is a little goofy too.)

Pluck this conceit straight from 2009, kick it across the pond, and it plays (forgive me) worse. Kooky is hard to pull off, and the tone of the pilot episode veers towards obnoxious then overcorrects into saccharine, rarely striking quite the right balance. Sometimes the tracked laughs seem misplaced, the turns to camera slightly off time, the jokes a little awkward coming from Kat's mouth rather than Miranda's. But there are also moments where it works, including my favorite from the pilot, a sweet callback from Max (new Gary) all the way to a bit taken from the original series.

Is Call Me Kat as fresh and sweet as Miranda? Well, no, but I'm quite in love with the original so that's a biasing factor. Will I keep watching to see how it stacks up? Yes, definitely. It's trite, and not master cinema, but I could use a little comfort and I wasn't so scared off that I won't be back in search of more fruit friends next week.

A almost one on one clone of the original UK series with Miranda Hart. Mayim Bialik does an admirable job copycatting MIranda Hart, which at the same time is the weakness of the show, Mayim plays MIranda, MIranda IS Miranda, The original is simply pleasantly crazy and weird, genuinely, the show is written for her personality, Mayim has to re en-act it and that makes it a lot less funny and feels a bit forced, Still she comes close in lots of moments. I find pleasure in watching how far she will succeed "Mirandarizing" herself, she did an admirable job, and I hope it will grow on her in the next episodes.

All this did for me was make me want to watch the far superior Miranda. I would advise others to do the same.

Watching this episode was literally one of the worst minutes of my life, this episode was beyond torture, even if you hire a failure primary school kid, he won't be able to write a script this bad, literally nothing is funny in this episode still constantly laughter track is being played. I loved Mayim in Big Bang Theory but couldn't tolerate her in this show.

I will tell you what it is. It's another stinker of a show that they advertised in advance to ad nauseum and it turns out that Call Me Kat is a real bore of what they expect to pass for a Comedy series?. Add insult to injury they also pipe in that obnoxious canned laughter continuously which is supposed to be our clue to laugh along. Laugh along at what? Not funny. Not interesting. A pure stinkeroo.

During this the pilot episode Mayim Bialik has this permanent smile on her face which, if it was her intention to make us smile as well it just did not work. There are cheap lines and even cheaper canned laughter piped in after each sentence spewed.

I give it a 3 out of 10 IMDB rating. The smell keeps getting worse.