{"id":7683,"date":"2017-08-29T18:21:08","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T18:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com?p=2768881&amp;preview_id=2768881"},"modified":"2017-08-29T18:21:08","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T18:21:08","slug":"review-netflix-rolls-out-disjointed-starring-kathy-bates-created-by-tv-guru-chuck-lorre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/review-netflix-rolls-out-disjointed-starring-kathy-bates-created-by-tv-guru-chuck-lorre\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Netflix rolls out \u2018Disjointed,\u2019 starring Kathy Bates, created by TV guru Chuck Lorre"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/review-netflix-rolls-out-disjointed-starring-kathy-bates-created-by-tv-guru-chuck-lorre\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\">\n<div class=\"entry-meta-date\">Published: Aug 28, 2017, 11:21 am \u2022 Updated: Aug 29, 2017, 11:53 am<span class=\"single-comments-link\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\">By <strong>Rob Lowman<\/strong>, <em> Orange County Register<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It might take a medicinal brownie or two to really enjoy the new Netflix comedy \u201cDisjointed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Starring Kathy Bates as Ruth Whitefeather Feldman, the owner of a Los Angeles cannabis shop known as Ruth\u2019s Alternative Caring, she\u2019s a lifelong advocate for use of the weed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re not alone,\u201d Ruth tells an overanxious mother who has come to the store looking for relief. \u201cYou\u2019ll be happy to know you\u2019re a stereotype.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her \u201cbudtenders\u201d at the store are Pete (Australian actor Dougie Baldwin), who is out to create the ultimate marijuana strain; Jenny (Elizabeth Ho), whose parents think she\u2019s a surgeon, and Olivia (Elizabeth Alderfer), who dropped in after dropping out from her life in the Midwest.<\/p>\n<p>Tone Bell plays security guard Carter, a war veteran with a touch of post-traumatic stress disorder. He felt safer in Iraq than as a black man in America, he tells Ruth in the one serious edge to the series.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Moten is Ruth\u2019s son Travis. His dad was a Black Panther turned corporate lawyer and has gotten an MBA. His goal is to make his mother\u2019s store profitable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis blueprint for the future,\u201d he tells Ruth as he hands her a business plan. \u201cRecreational is now legal in California. The gold rush is on, and someday somebody is going to be the Walmart of cannabis. Why not us?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause Walmart is evil,\u201d Ruth responds in her New York Jewish accent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou shop there,\u201d Travis reminds her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDisjointed\u201d is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2016\/01\/15\/big-bang-theory-marijuana-tv-pot-chuck-lorre\/46737\/\">created by TV power Chuck Lorre<\/a> (\u201cThe Big Bang Theory,\u201d \u201cMom,\u201d \u201cMike &amp; Molly,\u201d \u201cTwo and a Half Men\u201d) and former \u201cDaily Show\u201d head writer David Javerbaum. The 20-episode series is pretty standard three-camera stuff but obviously not sitcom material for CBS. Language, of course.<\/p>\n<p>Often, the best parts of \u201cDisjointed\u201d are the little videos that break up the scenes. Some are homemade internet spots to advertise the store. Some are tripped-out moments, usually animated. There are some parodies of old warnings against the dangers of marijuana, and a couple of them may even be real.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, most of the jokes are pot-related, and high people can get on your nerves.<\/p>\n<p>Ingesting \u201cDisjointed\u201d is pretty harmless. You might get a buzz, though. There are a few laughs, but I can pretty much assure you that you won\u2019t get addicted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018Disjointed\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What:<\/strong>\u00a020-episode half-hour comedy set at a California cannabis shop, starring Kathy Bates as the owner<\/p>\n<p><strong>When:<\/strong>\u00a0Available now<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where:<\/strong>\u00a0Netflix<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\">[embedded content]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2017\/08\/22\/netflixs-disjointed-is-a-comedy-about-the-high-life-3-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">This story was first published on OCRegister.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .row --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<p>It might take a medicinal brownie or two to really enjoy the new Netflix comedy &#8216;Disjointed.&#8217; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7289,6811,7290,2435,6813,499,77,5667,6858,9,6486,5019,1,3,5271,61,1736],"tags":[7291,6816,7292,2436,6818,3073,2655,5673,6860,6493,5022,5277],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}