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Drop Dead Diva - Season 1
A vapid aspiring model named Deb killed in a car crash gets brought back to life as an intelligent, overweight lawyer named Jane. Now, by a twist of fate, Deb must come to terms with inhabiting Jane's curvier frame in an ultimate showdown between brains and beauty.
9 December 1972, Chicago, Illinois, USA
24 March 1955, Ripon, California, USA
3 June 1988, Elgin, Illinois, USA
1979, New Zealand
19 January 1961, El Dorado, Arkansas, USA
August 26, 2009
As it has wandered away from its core body-switch concept and allowed its characters to become more than caricatures, Drop Dead Diva has emerged as one of summer's unexpected pleasures.
July 10, 2009
Drop Dead Diva is a lot of fun to watch, with the added bonus of introducing TV audiences to Brooke Elliott, a stage actress with fabulous comic timing and enormous dramatic flexibility.
July 12, 2009
A minor delight for viewers who seek engaging escapist fare.
July 20, 2009
Newcomer Brooke Elliott is both charming and surprisingly credible as Jane-inhabited-by-Deb. She's a find.
July 11, 2009
The Lifetime press materials quote from a half-dozen women's groups, which heap praise on the network for creating a plus-size role model. But in truth, this show is filled with mixed messages about the links between appearance and self-esteem.
July 08, 2009
There's much to be said for a program featuring a smart, plus-sized heroine in today's rail-thin TV world, but Diva undernourishes its premise amid a sea of legal-procedural banalities.
July 09, 2009
Drop Dead Diva relies too much on stereotypical characterizations of women - the dumb blonde, the homely intellectual, the vampy temptress, etc. - to be wholly fresh and original.
July 10, 2009
While it sounds pedantic, downright corny, and done to death, Drop Dead Diva is actually fun, funny and sometimes and in some ways even touching.
July 10, 2009
The cleverest thing about Drop Dead Diva is its title - and if, over its 13-week run, the writing rises to that level of droll wit, this could turn out to be the TV equivalent of a good old-fashioned summer beach read.
July 09, 2009
In the most implausible of comic mixups Ms. Elliott is convincing, and even affecting, at every turn.
