Now, "Labor" was never succeeding to be a neorealistic treatise on society's weight on breeding. We are in Disneyland, folks, the part of the country where Thea can get away with stuffing her belly for months (even the younger sister she's raising is unaware). But what was a single-episode subplot on ABC's quickly lived "In the Motherhood" (also featuring Hines) doesn't elongate well. As Thea's colleagues get into the expectancy of her unwed parenthood -- baking brownies, knitting booties, gift confederation -- a minor extent demented game turns ugly. When Thea starts buying into the delusion, the order enters a freakish area: Is this a comedy or a glance at someone whose cheese has slipped off her cracker? To her credit, Lohan plays it all straight-faced, firm-jawed; we suppose that she believes she's pregnant.
But the dissonance between the story's start, where it goes and where it ends (wrapped in a nice, Disney-esque bow) is bewildering. Perhaps the writers did begin with a treatise on bringing-up that made a slow descent into darker depths rather than a spring into the abyss. But when Disneyland comes calling, you have to enter the come to rest of fetch believe. So undertake this is a sincerely comedy.
Enjoy the unsuited reveals, the unforeseen wildness toward animals, the misogyny-as-humor and the poo jokes. As Billy Joel once said, It's just a fantasy. It's not the unfeigned thing. But at times a hallucination is all you need.
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