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Meanwhile, April anticipates dating again in the wake of her divorce, and the ladies bid adieu to Val. Free Download Video Single Ladies 28th May 2012 Episode On VH1 Tv Online Tv Live Streaming Video .Online Watch Single Ladies Full Episode Watch Stream HD Video on Internet TV . Free Download Single Ladies Full Episode Video.Did you catch the Single Ladies premiere last night. It was our first look at the new VH1 series produced by Queen Latifah. The NYT is calling the show "Sex and the City (Atlanta), With Racial Politics" because it follows three girlfriends Val (Stacey Dash), Keisha (LisaRaye McCoy), and April (Charity Shea) on high-fashion jaunts that explore sexual and racial politics of dating, relationships, and sisterhood.So far many of the reviews have been pretty harsh, basically chalking the show up as more mindless drivel for women. But should we really listen to that kind of too-soon criticism, especially when it mostly comes from men, or give the show a chance?Not surprisingly male reviewers seem to have the harshest early criticism for Single Ladies. Single Ladies is a television series on the VH1 network in the U.S. created by Stacy A. Littlejohn and produced by Queen Latifah's Flavor Unit Entertainment for the MTV network-owned cable channel. The show chronicles three friends, Val, Keisha and April, and their relationships. The series premiered on May 30, 2011 with a two-hour television film.
Initially the program received reasonable ratings. The two-hour premiere gained a 1.2 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 2.8 million total viewers. It also scored a slightly higher 2.0 rating in the 18-34 female demographic.
The show was tested as a movie before being turned into a 12-episode series. Executive director Olde reports that "TV, sometimes, under the best of circumstances, is a gut business," and went on to say that, after testing the script, the response was good enough for them to develop it into the series.
Critical reception was not too favourable, Media Life Magazine reporter Tom Conroy reported that, "The female characters are either one-note (Keisha), inscrutable (April) or incoherent (Val). It’s unfair to blame the actresses. The writers are the ones who can’t decide if Val, for example, is the kind of girl who would make men wait 90 days or the kind of girl who would use a phrase like “tap this” referring to herself."
Although VH1 bills "Single Ladies" as a romantic comedy, this hourlong show is really a soap -- basically a scripted version of "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" seeking to fill a niche among African-American women largely abandoned by broadcasters since "Girlfriends" went off the air. Still, it's not a particularly inspired serial, replete with tired situations, stiff dialogue and male characters possessing less dimension than those populating "Sex and the City," if that's possible. It's not easy for a series featuring beautiful women to harbor zero appeal among men, but these "Ladies" thread that needle.
Produced by, among others, Queen Latifah, and created by Stacy A. Littlejohn ("The Wanda Sykes Show," "All of Us"), "Ladies" shares a name with a catchy Beyonce song and employs almost the exact same lyric when Val ("Clueless'? " Stacey Dash) extends an ultimatum to her longtime boyfriend in front of their friends in the first scene: "If you like it, then put a ring on it," she snaps.
Three months later, Val is opening a shop and still trying to make sense of her failed relationship, while pal Keisha (LisaRaye McCoy) -- who has an extremely casual attitude about sex -- is engaged in a sort-of naughty game with a wealthy businessman (DB Woodside). Finally, their friend April (Charity Shea) -- ostensibly happily married -- is having a risky affair with the mayor (played by the rapper/poet/Fox News bogeyman Common).
There's a fair amount of sex and cattiness in the two-hour premiere, but the former has all the heat of a perfume commercial, and the latter wouldn't ruffle a hair in "Real Housewives" territory, which is clearly a source of inspiration.
The main problem, though, is these ladies and the men in their lives keep getting saddled with exclamations like, "Whoa, drama overload!" and, "Don't' even get me started on your ass." Yes, please don't.
With such a dearth of compelling drama aimed at African-Americans (and whatever VH1 chooses to call this, there's nary a laugh in the piece), "Ladies" could garner some attention by default. Still, if this is the direction the net intends to go with its original scripted endeavors, let's just say the development teams at higher-aiming cablers like FX and AMC can rest easy.