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Faith Ford and Kelly Ripa in Hope & Faith (2003)

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Hope & Faith

3 reviews
4/10

Annoying Sisters not that fun

Hope (Faith Ford) is an uptight happily married mom of three in Glen Falls, Ohio. Her tidy world is up-ended by the arrival of her celebrity sister, the giant mess Faith (Kelly Ripa). Faith was a Hollywood diva as a daytime soap opera star until her soap's character was unceremoniously killed off.

Kelly Ripa was annoying, and her character unlikeable. Faith Ford wasn't much better. The constant fighting really made it hard to root for this angry relationship.

It also had on set drama as they fired the oldest daughter played by Nicole Paggi. She was great as the only fun character. For seasons 2 & 3, they replaced her with Megan Fox. Sadly, she may have the looks, but at that stage she couldn't act her way out of a paper sack.
  • SnoopyStyle
  • Aug 27, 2013
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4/10

It's what you expect but not from where you expect.

Kelly Ripa, one of Regis Philbin's second banana's plays Faith, a washed up daytime Soap Star who goes to live with her homemaking sister Hope(Faith Ford from Murphy Brown.) and her husband(Ted McGinley: The Monkey Paw of DOOM for TV.) who detests the dim 30 something actress still desperately pretending to be a teenager and famous when she is ridiculously not to hilarious consequences.

This tired sitcom has been on for three years and is no more complicated than an episode of I love Lucy with out the old world charm. For some reason all the good TV has gone off the air and this cud has found its way into prime time so I got a more than unpleasant look at it last Wednesday night. They were Tom Sawyering a fake death which excused the brutish husband into being extra coarse, telling Kelly Ripa to die for real, which is when I noticed the plot and the characters were from A Street Car Named Desire.

So, yes that guy who killed Happy Days and Love boat(Ted might not have made the head shot, but he gets partial credit for the fall of Sports Night.) is Stanley, and Kelly Ripa is Blanche. I wonder if Kelly's oblivious to playing one of the greatest America female parts, or she's ten times smarter than Regis silently laughing at the inside joke? I'm really curious how Tennessee would have reacted seeing such a freaking cartoon? He was an angry drunk right? Of course the only really serious point to take from all this is that Ted McGinley is walking in Brando's shadow.... OMG! Even compare Ted and Marlon's characters names are bizzarro counterparts of one another!

Charley Shanowski Stanley Kowalski

That's a wonky spoonerism. This is no accident, hell, it's probably always been pitched as a homage and I'm just dim.
  • itsrabbitseason
  • Aug 31, 2006
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4/10

the Kelly Rippa character is a monster

This was supposed to be about two sisters ,one who is a conservative mother of three and one who is a wacky but lovable ex-Hollywood actress. The show's characters are mostly cartoonish but where they failed is even in that concept the Kellly Rippa is just a totaly selfish ,totaly unlikable character ,who even though is supposed to have some redeeming qualities she has none,she is just one insuferable bitch who doesnt really care about anyone but herself. She is supposed to care about her sister,but time after time is shown to not really care at all,she just uses her sister and manipulates everything to suit herself. This is too much to be funny,after a few episodes one has had enough of the Kelly Rippa character and you just wish you never see her again.
  • jimakros
  • Dec 21, 2022
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