Cybil

This show was a rare thing. Open-minded, modern and funny. Most sit com writers would baulk at writing some of the lines that are said in this programme. Cybil is a sort of modern, glamourous, confident hippy, if such a thing is possible. A lot of her standards and opinions are viewed as extreme or too new age, but there should be more of this to strike a balance of opinion in the industry. Cybil shepherd plays a character that she said was based on herself if she hadn’t had the success that she did have in Hollywood. I find Cybil’s character very likeable, and I wish I had had a mother just like her. I feel that in some ways we share some ...  Read the complete review

Cybill is a victim of Channel 4's erratic scheduling, and consequently its never really built itself the audience it probably deserves. As American comedy goes it is top quality with beleivable characters in fairly realistic situations. the main character is of course Cybil - played by Cybil Shepherd - and her life is obviously *very* losely based on Shepherd's own life, just like Roseanne was based on Roseanne Barr's. Cybill has two daughters and two ex husbands who she is still friendly with. She also has a fairly psychotic best friend who lives nearby called Mary Ann. Mary Ann appears posh and insanely rich but she comes from a much ...  Read the complete review

Now this is a very funny show,Cybil is an actress who just never seem's to get any really good parts,and the parts she get's are because of her leg's or hands. Cybil has two ex-husbands who still keep's in touch just like they were best friends.(unlike in real life!) Her best friend is well a drinker to say the least,and is out to get her ex-husband Dr Dick because he left her for another woman.Some of the antics she get's up to doing this is rib cracking. This is a show I could watch everyday and cannot wait for them to make a new series.I t needs to be back on my screen on my friday night's in. Exellent show. ...  Read the complete review

~~~~~~~ Background ~~~~~~~ Cybill Sheridan (played by Cybill Shepherd) is a forty something who never qite hit the big time as an actress. She has two daughters, one who still lives at home, and one who is married with a baby, and spends much of her time with her next door neighbour and best friend Mary Ann, a bitter divorcee on the brink of alchoholism. Cybil also has two ex-husbands, and we get to see a lot of Ira, who is the father of her younger daughter, Zoey. Ira is a writer who often turns to Cybill for inspiration. Many of the plots centre on Mary Ann enlisting Cybill to help in her latest plot to get revenge on Richard, her ...  Read the complete review

CYBIL Sometimes I think the Americans have a very peculiar sense of humour but this is actually funny. I have always liked Cybil (it’s funny how you always call them by their role name) I mean Moonlighting was a great show in its time, I could still watch it now. But it’s her side sidekick who really makes the show, she’s a bit like our Patsy out of Absolutely Fab. Likes the bottle and the men but never really gets to the falling down stage. And they are always talking about the dreaded menopause and the way gravity plays cruel tricks on the fairer sex. It’s just funny, no messages or issues and half an hour of fun. ...  Read the complete review