NY Newsday: 'THE OSBOURNES' Not So Bleepin' Funny

June 9, 2003

Diane Werts of New York Newsday had a chance to preview the first episode of the new season of "The Osbournes" and appeared largely unimpressed with what she saw. "['The Osbournes'] third 'reality' season begins with a half hour that's initially sad (Ozzy asking for ever more 'nitrous' at the dentist),then tedious (do we care about daughter Kelly's 'feud' with Christina Aguilera?) and, finally, painfully, real — despite itself," she writes. "Maybe the show is contriving to morph from comedy to drama, which might feel more appropriate now that Jack has gone into substance rehab and long-imbibing dad Ozzy has supposedly gotten sober, both happening after this season's 10 new episodes concluded filming. The tone certainly feels more serious. Kelly and Jack aren't squabbling now — they're striking each other, hard. MTV's cameras linger on cute-'n'-happy baby pictures along the wall as they moan to mom about how horrible the other sibling is, and the widening contrast is unnerving. For that matter, aging rocker Ozzy is no longer amusingly doddering — things have degenerated to the pathetic stage. Try as the producers might, scoring cheery Hawaiian music behind dad's dental debacle, it's hard to find much comical here. Even the curse-word bleeps, which once seemed to colorfully punctuate wacky goings-on, have become so incessant a crutch as to echo with emptiness." Read more.

The third season of "The Osbournes" will premiere Tuesday, June 10 at 10:30 p.m.

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