Oh dear. 'Joey' as a show had so much potential, there are some wonderful epsidoes across both of its two series, but this episode is a mess.
I had such high hopes for it too. Michael Borkow was on 'Friends', he knows the character of Joey. And yet instead we get a weak episode where both plots fall a bit flat.
So, Joey is now a big movie star. That in principle I had no problems with, it opened up the landscape of the show a bit, and enabled the writers to poke a bit of fun at Hollywood.
Joey having to deal with a child star with attitude is also a decent enough story. But it's poorly executed, with lots of seriously weak jokes, many of which again make the character of Joey out to be a complete idiot. Only a nice guest appearance from John Larroquette redeem it slightly.
Although it was nice to see Gina and Alex's friendship develop their storyline wasn't much better, with actually some offensive moments in it along the way. Why they had to alter the Alex character so much is beyond me too. She's changes so much from the start of the series, and even quite a bit from how she was towards the end of series one.
A seriously disappointing episode.