Given Sherman-Palladino's writing skills and the immense talents of Posey and Lauren Ambrose ("Six Feet Under"), "Jezebel" seemed to have a great shot at being the female buddy comedy that has yet to rise from the ashes of "Sex and the City." The premise, though, pretty much stinks.

Posey plays uptight children's-book editor Sarah (strong echoes of the role she played a decade ago in "You've Got Mail"), who is well into her 30s, coming off a nearly decade-long relationship, and infertile. Her approach to the concept of motherhood is so obtuse -- and none too funny. There's a moment when we catch her staring longingly at a co-worker's sweet granddaughter, but there's also that moment when she dismisses the concept of adoption because "I kinda freak out when strangers use my bathroom."

Enter Coco (Ambrose), Sarah's baby sister, who lives on friends' couches and inside Chinese takeout restaurants and generally looks as if she stole her entire slacker wardrobe from the "Six Feet Under" set. She doesn't appear to have a job, her boyfriend is the sort who gets his band's van impounded for unpaid parking tickets and she seems to eschew much in the arena of personal hygiene. But she's blood! Which means her uterus is just the incubator Sarah seeks.

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