What were they thinking with Vicki?
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capnmorgan5150 — 16 years ago(March 09, 2010 08:42 AM)
You seem to be the only one who does like her. If she's so great, why did the show get cancelled right after she showed up? And yes, that fake New York accent is just terrible, makes me cringe every time she talks. Hopefully that's the last anyone ever sees of her no-talent a$$!
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CMAT11530 — 16 years ago(March 26, 2010 05:27 PM)
I AGREE! I liked Rena I had no problem with her. The main reason why the show was canceled was because NBC moved it to Tuesday nights at 8:30 and in January 2003 it was up against American idol that everyone would rather watch a stupid realty show than a funny sitcom! and NBC took it off the air till the summer! So thats why JSM was canceled because of stupid american idol!!
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ep573 — 15 years ago(June 01, 2010 09:02 PM)
I don't know why everybody bags on Rena Sofer. She wasn't the
perfect
actress on JSM, but she was not terrible either. She was a WHOLE lot better than Tiffani Thiesen.
I remember a few of her episodes being quite funnythe one that comes to mind is, where Vicki and Finch are competing over who's more important to Jack. The scheming, trash talking, mind games and competition between the two was hilarious!
And the show, while great, HAD run it's course. It would have been the last season with or without her. -
hellblazer-1 — 15 years ago(June 11, 2010 04:51 AM)
The dynamics of the show had already been ruined a few seasons earlier when they changed Finch from loveable loser sidekick to creepy sexual predator lead.
Compare episodes like 'Nina's Bikini', 'Finch On Ice' and 'Fast Times at Finchmont High' with the later seasons - 'Nina Van Grandma' comes to mind (an episode so unpleasant and sleazy as to be unwatchable).
Rena Sofer was fine and so was her character but that didn't hide the fact that she was a desperate attempt to breathe life into a dying show and she failed.
We will always have the first four seasons. -
Cloudburst2000 — 14 years ago(February 20, 2012 11:20 AM)
I wasn't a huge Vicki fan but I didn't hate her. I think the ratings were already in decline so they were trying to add a bit of spice by bringing Rena in. It didn't work not so much because of Rena but because the later episodes just didn't seem to be as well written as the earlier seasons. It also didn't help that they moved the shows time slot. The show needed better writing in the final season to be saved and it didn't get that, IMHO.
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shayneferry — 13 years ago(November 11, 2012 05:06 PM)
I'm rewatching s7 and man she is just awful. The character really ruins the show and her accent is god awful. It's not really the actress' fault, Vikki is just a crap character. They definitely didn't need her and she wasn't funny or entertaining.
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jname96 — 11 years ago(March 28, 2015 01:21 PM)
I can't BELIEVE there's actually some "Vicky" supporters here!
OMG!
I'm normally not a sanctimonious viewer with my shows, but she effin' BLEEEEEEEEEEWWWW!
The cast was already taut and perfect as is. Adding a sixth character was as useful as adding a fifth wheel to a corvette.
Geez.