Salon.com > don't trust the b in apt 23 http://www.salon.com Sat, 25 May 2013 11:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 “Don’t Trust the B—- in Apt. 23″ revels in the nostalgia of a not-so-distant past http://www.salon.com/2012/10/24/the_b_in_apt_23_goes_niche/ http://www.salon.com/2012/10/24/the_b_in_apt_23_goes_niche/#comments Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:30:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13049120 ABC’s sharp and cheerfully bracing sitcom “Don’t Trust the B---- in Apt. 23” returned for its second season last night with a funny and very curious episode. The series is about a goody two-shoes named June (Dreama Walker) who moves in with a charming and mean-spirited B---- named Chloe (Krysten Ritter), who happens to be besties with “Dawson's Creek” star James Van Der Beek (James Van Der Beek). The show was a mid-season replacement last year, airing just seven episodes before taking its summer break.  Most such sitcoms would use their second season premiere as a kind of reintroduction, but if the premiere of “Apt. 23” was a re-intro, here’s what it had to say about itself: Hi, I’m “The B in Apt. 23” and I am a show for people who were likely tween to 20-something pop culture consumers in the late 1990s and early aughts. I plan to reach beyond this niche audience not by broadening the show, but by launching viral videos.

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