Praise goes to Kirstie Alley , who plays an aging ex-model now in the lingerie Less frenetic than Lucy , more mature than Mary ( Richard Corliss , Time ) . The Washington Post ' s Tom Shales dissents , calling Alley unwatchably neurotic and in a virtually perpetual feverish tizzy .
Kirstie Alley is a great actress in the sitcom that won the Golden Globe .