Karen Gillan
John Cho
Da’Vine Joy Randolph
Allyn Rachel
David Harewood

Created by:
Emily Kapnek

2014
Comedy
ABC
TV-14

“Selfie” is “My Fair Lady” (or “Pygmalion”) for the social media age. But it’s neither clever nor funny. It needs more of a makeover than its lead character. It wants to be a TV comedy for contemporary times, but it seems forced instead of funny. Hip is hard to do on network TV, and “Selfie” doesn’t make it look easy. I just don’t know what it wants to be.

I get the premise, but the presentation seems generic. As I watched the first episode, I was reminded of “Ugly Betty”; but “Ugly Betty” has a stronger sense of self. I just don’t know what this show’s selling point is.

A concept is just a concept; you have to flesh it out to make a show. Based on the first episode of “Selfie,” I don’t care at all.

Verdict: Whatever

About: (Source: selfie)

“Instafamous” Eliza Dooley (Karen Gillan) has 263,000 followers who hang on to her every post, tweet and selfie. But one lonely day she has a revelation: being friended is not the same as having actual friends. She asks marketing guru Henry (John Cho) to ‘rebrand’ her self-obsessed reputation and teach her how to connect with people in the real world. Selfie explores the modern struggles of Eliza and Henry, as he tries to teach her how to live life offline—whether she ‘likes’ it or not.