Nope. Herc still can’t get enough of reality!! Can’t wait for the start of “The Osbournes” season two. Can’t wait to see if the house stud Steven knocked up Trishelle on “Real World.”
My life is good, you old bag!
Turn on those sprinklers, Jack!!
TV Guide says:
Turn on those sprinklers, Jack!!
TV Guide says:
TV's first family of dysfunction returns for a second season of the charmingly offbeat reality series. A tidal wave of change has swept over Ozzy and his clan since the March debut of the Emmy-winning hit that made celebrities of the entire family. Matriarch Sharon is waging a battle with colon cancer and making plans to host an upcoming talk show. Daughter Kelly has launched a singing career, and her friend Robert Marcato has moved into the Osbournes' guest house in the aftermath of his mother's death. Son Jack, meanwhile, is enjoying his new celebrity status. The season opener features Ozzy and Sharon at a White House dinner and Kelly singing “Papa Don't Preach” at the MTV Movie Awards.
USA Today gives it 2 ½ stars and says:
… although the ratings and the profits might well soar, the two episodes available for preview supply a nagging counterweight: Artistically, a second season looks to be a major mistake. What once seemed fresh and at least partially spontaneous now seems studied and even a little desperate. There's nothing much more painful than watching people struggling to expand their allotted quotient of fame. … whatever used to pass for normal among the Osbournes has vanished.
The Los Angeles Times says:
Make no mistake: "The Osbournes" still rocks. But, like Ozzy, it doesn't rock quite as hard. Part of that is because (a) we already know the basics of what has happened to the family, thanks to media saturation, and (b) the first episode doesn't concentrate as much on relatively simple domestic life as last season's escapades did. … It's still weirdly funny to see the leader of the free world acknowledge the Prince of Darkness, and Jack displays some wonderful sibling rivalry when Kelly appears on the MTV Movie Awards. But such situations aren't as grounded in viewers' lives as before, and they smack of the shopworn formula of putting sitcom characters in new settings just to spice things up.
The Hollywood Reporter says:
“This is no longer a mere family. It's a franchise, a brand, a cultural touchstone, a metaphor for impolite dysfunction -- not to mention a line of signature underwear (among other merchandise). It is into this surreal environment that "The Osbournes" returns for Season 2, where it's immediately obvious that while everything has changed, nothing really has. The dizzy charm remains firmly in place for a show that has evolved by necessity from being about the lives of a sorta famous family to one about the challenges wrought by enormous fame and fortune.”
Variety says:
“The most talked-about show of the year returns a little less nutty, a lot more self-conscious and, after episode two explores matriarch Sharon Osbourne's colon cancer, with a much more serious tone. Round one was a pure nuthouse affair, a tour of the unbelievable. As the second season starts, they seem so, well, normal. Or at least overly familiar.”
