The show depicts three L.A. ladies (Valerie Bertinelli, Wendie Malick and Jane Leeves) who get stuck on an overnight layover in Cleveland en route to a fabulous trip to Paris and decide they like how much fatter everyone is there so much that they'll just move there. Well, that's not exactly fair. Bertinelli decides to move there because she finds a man in a bar who's willing to have sex with someone over the age of 25. So, see? Totally better, totally makes sense.

They move into an old Victorian together and the caretaker is, of course, Betty White, who is a Midwestern spitfire who hates whores. Which is actually pretty funny and delightful, as Betty White just undeniably is, and the four of them together is oddly engaging, even if the writing really isn't there. I think this show may have some of that mysterious Drop Dead Diva mojo going on in it that somehow goes further than just having an affinity for the cast. Because it's not very funny, it's juvenile and insulting to women, really, but it's also... kind of enjoyable. I have no idea why, but it is. Maybe I'm getting stupider? That is always a possibility.

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