![]() When Katie tries to get a big girl to move into the empty house across the street so she will be demoted to third fattest housewife in Westport, it’s a humorous conceit for an episode. There needs to be more activity around her, more interesting personalities, and real life struggles. While husband Greg is a delightful oddball, both of her kids are nothing more than caricatures and her two friends (Carly Hughes and a sadly wasted Ali Wong) mostly just sit there and nod while Katie groans in a pizza-stained shirt about how awful her life is. The problem is that too much of the story is focused on Katie and Anna-Kat (ugh, that name!). Harrison doesn’t want to give to the local food drive because he sees it as a “hand out” and Taylor (who is recast between the pilot and episode two with no explanation) is threatening to become one of those Westport women who drinks green juice out of a mason jar and only wears yoga pants when leaving the house. Though Anna-Kat gets what she needs, Katie’s other two children Alex P Keaton type Harrison (Daniel DiMaggio) and newly buxom Taylor (Meg Donnelly) are turning into the sort of yuppie types the town is famous for. ![]() ![]() Katie and her husband Greg (Diedrich Bader) rent a house in the town because their superior schools provide extra services for her OCD daughter Anna-Kat (Julia Butters) who has the distinction of having both the oddest personality and the worst name in all of prime time. The American Housewife of the title (not to be confused with housewives either desperate or real) is Katie Otto (Katy Mixon), the “second fattest housewife” in Westport, Connecticut, the tony suburb that used to boast (a pre-prison) Martha Stewart as a resident.
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