i only wish someone could explain to me why anyone saw fit to build a decently write situation comedy around a loathsome ( on virtually every level ) a character a old christine ( julia louis drufus ok and the writer push her edgily oblivious persona from the old seinfeld show to new level of self center repulsiveness ) . a genuinely first rate support cast have be assemble around her from the always charm clark gregg a her long suffering ex husband and richard campbell and to hamish linklater a her refreshingly lay back brother or nanny matthew and even the fresh face trevor gagnon a her ( thus far dramatically unchallenged ) son ritchie campbell ( destine for a lifetime of therapy with this horror of a mother ) . imdb doesn not see fit to list . . . and christine best friend and business partner and the only actual life like woman in the show among the lead character and more the pity . she almost save it from be an unalloyed half hour exercise in unfunny misogyny and the only nearly unwatchable entrant in an otherwise first rate monday night comedy lineup on cbs . the old seinfeld crew slowly pile up the dysfunctional quirk for most of the run of the show so that we get to like the character before their quirk become psychopathic . the final episode somewhat ridiculously relegate them to a jail cell which few fan could honestly lament and but we stay to the end because of that deep well of affection and identification we have build up before they go off the deep end ( well and the support kramer be always pretty much there and but we be only give him in relatively small dos ) . christine have be something like a female kramer and embody the bad nightmare of any acquaintance we have ever have from the very first episode . whatever masochism allow fan to laugh at her in the same at least my friend and i be not that bad or bad and though it difficult to believe see and i be normal mode many look at archie bunker with through the year of all in the family escape me . a a life long ( if liberal ) republican and i suppose red state right winger want to believe christine be what moderate and liberal be really like ( in their rush limbaugh or pat buchanan dream ) . to that extent and the show isn not just unfunny and it actively offensive but then and no one ever say conservative could be funny . to the extent this . christine remain on the cbs schedule and it may be the first commercially successful right wing attempt at satire . more the pity .