If it wasn't for West Coast Julie Brown, I probably would have never cared to watch the show. She plays a former child star, Tammi Tyler, who operates a strip mall with lesbian Chinese restaurant owner played by the wonderful Amy Hill. The show was silly at best with stupid plots about killing and sex jokes. The show was dark comedy more like a dark soap opera with comic overtones. The show was filmed at a strip mall in Los Angeles. The show aired it's full season on Comedy Central. The show had it's moments with Julie Brown and Amy Hill who ran the Chinese restaurant with her lesbian lover until she got killed. I remember the actual name of the place, "Wok Don't Run." Like I said, Amy Hill was unforgettable and I wished that she would get more jobs.

I really wonder how this show plays in the U.K. and the rest of Europe. IT IS SO SELF-LOATHING ABOUT BEING AN American(particularly white Americans). That could be a big reason for some of the venom and vitriol expressed here on this board. I love the show but it is with some reservations and I feel it took the easy way out by Spoiler Spoiler:Crashing and burning everything at the end of the second season. Julie slammed the door shut on any hope of reviving the show unless her character lands on a haystack in the middle of some farm. Who knows? It was a funny, raunchy and on occasion, kinda scary show.

I actually love this show. I place it in the line of "Strangers with Candy," and "League of Gentlemen." All dark comedies. Each show is like the sequel to the one before it, it sorta keeps you on the edge. But I find the show extrememly funny. Julie Brown was a perfect fit for (basically) the lead role of this show.

Strip Mall is a very stupid TV show. The entire show is built upon sex jokes and murder jokes. It's very dark and I usually like black-comedies but this one is very dumb. The story goes like this: Tammi Tyler (Julie Brown) is a former child star turned murderer turned cocktail waitress at a strip mall. She meets a fat guy who's broke and gets married to him because he's the first man she sees. Then there's some guys in a wedding taping studio which makes dirty movies in the back room. And then there's a store run by bickering lesbians.That's it. That is the entire show. It looked like "Strangers with Candy" from the previews (That's a good show) but it ended up being like "Veronica's Closet" (That's a bad show). If a fat guy getting rushed to the hospital because of the pains in his butt sounds funny to you, then watch this. If not, wait a day and watch the hilarious black-comedy "The League of Gentlemen" * out of ****