Season 1 - Episode 11
NBC (US)
Well it had to happen eventually. I've stuck with it through weeks of crap, and said there's something that keeps me coming back. This week, Whitney got good.
And do you know what? This should have been as crap as the rest of the season. The main gags came from masturbation jokes. But they worked in the context of the episode - the first time the crude and juvenile jokes have done so in the run - and were therefore funny. As I've been saying for weeks, Chris D'Elia as Whitney's live-in boyfriend Alex has been the best thing about this show, and that doesn't change here. He's in great form as he takes the brunt of most of the comedy, yet still comes across as the impressively sardonic, but somehow sweet guy that he is. The rest of the characters are at their best here too, and it makes a big difference.
This is by far the best written and best constructed episode of Whitney yet. I was all ready to write this show off, but I've finally been impressed. It's not magnificent by any stretch of the imagination, but it's enough to justify it sticking around.
*** 1/2
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