
GCB has a lot going for it, especially with Broadway icon Chenoweth playing the conniving yet adorable Carlene. Chenoweth’s success has been huge since her old television show Pushing Daisies ended, with stints on Glee and a new album. The tiny actress with a big voice brings enough humor to the show that bad acting on the parts of some of the supporting actors can be overlooked. Bibb is a good and sensible lead, and has chemistry with Chenoweth and Potts. As the title suggests, the general theme of GCB is Christian housewives. The show will certainly offend some, as it plays off of nearly every religious stereotype. The script emphasizes the leading role of men in the household, but it is the women who run the show. And these women are gossips, sexualized, conniving, ambitious, filthy rich, and bursting at the seams with drama. This Texas is not the Texas of barn dances and ranch hands, but rather it is the overly wealthy Texas with oil tycoons, ballroom hoedowns, and plastic surgery.
GCB will especially appeal to country fans with its fantastic soundtrack that features the likes of Miranda Lambert, Dierks Bentley, and The Jane Dear Girls. The show is based on the book Good Christian Bitches by Kim Gatlin, and the television series itself was created and written by Robert Harling. Interestingly, Harling went to school with Potts and based the character of Gigi on her own mother. Potts is one of the best parts of GCB, always decked out in wild outfits, spoiling her grandchildren, and trying to make her daughter Amanda feel at home in Dallas again. Country music star Sheryl Crowe is set to guest star in an upcoming episode, and she will no doubt fit right in.
If GCB’s audience grows, the show will no doubt be renewed for a second season. So stay tuned for more Bible verse battles, Boobylicious waitresses, and loads of fried food.