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Daily News Egypt: Egyptian Ramadan Sitcoms
"The highly anticipated, big budget 'El Eyada' (The Clinic) turned out to be one of the biggest let-downs of the season. 'The clinic' kicked off to a promising start but rapidly lost steam before the end of the first week. All three principle characters are well written. Edward plays a dense, unconfident mama’s boy gynecologist who, unwittingly, decides to share his clinic with a nihilistic, unsuccessful psychiatrist (Khaled Sarhan) and a feisty, nerdy dentist (Basma, the weakest of the trio).
"'The Clinic’s' quirky characters are hardly fleshed out or supplemented by solid situational comedy, the backbone of any successful sitcom. Perhaps the sitcom’s gravest failing is that it doesn’t even try to utilize both its characters and premise, and the whole thing feels quite indolent, eventually falling flat on its face.
"Yet, 'The Clinic' looks like a masterpiece compared to 'Café Chino' and 'Sherif we Nos' (Sherif and Half). Producers of both sitcoms have assembled a group of the unfunniest actors working in cinema for works that set a new low for Egyptian comedy. [...]"
Source: Daily News Egypt (Egypt), September 24, 2008
Posted at: 2008-10-06
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