I should’ve known the one episode of My Life on the D-List that Kathy Griffin devoted to her mother would be the season’s dud. In fact, how could it have succeeded? Kathy has reduced Maggie Griffin to a single Franzia joke since day one, allowing her the character breadth of a puppet theater headmistress. She’s stern, muumuu’d, and wine-woozy. That’s it. Adding cameos from Suze Orman and Lauren Conrad wasn’t going to change that, Kathleen. Time to persevere and engage the task at hand: scavenging last night’s episode for its most “real” and “fake” moments. Hopefully, we discover some probing emotional truths in this one-joke medley.
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Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List Reality Check: ‘Moving the Merch’
