( CNN ) -- After all the arrests , court appearances , trips to jail and rehab stays , Lindsay Lohan has turned to reality TV . On Sunday night , the 27-year-old made her latest comeback attempt in the OWN network 's `` Lindsay , '' a docu-series that came across in its first episode as part `` E ! True Hollywood Story '' and part `` Intervention , '' with a dash of `` Hoarders . '' ( Lohan , apparently , gets rid of nothing . ) The premise is to follow Lohan around as she tries to piece her personal and professional life back together after six years of documented turmoil . And so last summer , less than a week after she completed a 90-day stay at a Malibu rehab facility -- a place that actually aired commercials during the show -- Lohan sat down with OWN 's Oprah Winfrey for an interview and began filming . The trailer indicated that there would be no glossing over Lohan 's flaws and missteps , as crew members and OWN staff openly commented on the ways Lohan was making production difficult . But in its first hour , viewers did n't get any of that . Instead , the show tracked the former child star as she messily packed up and moved from Los Angeles to New York , tried to find her own place , saw her younger sister walk in a fashion show and squeezed in an impromptu shopping trip . Her jewelery needed to be organized , and then she needed to change hotel rooms . Other than a brilliant `` Fetch '' T-shirt being flashed at one point , that was about as exciting as it got . Yet in the midst of all that minutiae , the core of `` Lindsay '' is the star 's focus on sobriety . Lohan 's numerous low points are tallied throughout the episode , and she 's frequently accompanied by a sober coach . If nothing else , OWN 's `` Lindsay '' wants to be the portrait of a young artist in recovery . Does it succeed ? Maybe for fans of Lohan 's ( and she does still have them , as `` Lindsay '' proved by chatting up strangers on the street about the actress ) or the compassionately voyeuristic . `` I know there r much more important things going on in the world , '' media personality Jacque Reid tweeted Sunday , `` but I am very curious to see if Lindsay can save herself . '' In the beginning of the episode , Lohan at least seemed to be on her way there , saying during a one-on-one confessional that `` there 's nothing left in having a drink for me . '' `` There 's no situation that I have n't been exposed to , '' she went on . `` So maybe trying the other way for me , which is living with integrity and living in control of my own self , that 's the life I want now . '' But when faced with paparazzi , the stress of moving or a lingerie photo shoot that does n't go as planned , the actress appeared on the brink of breaking down . For The Daily Beast 's Kevin Fallon , those moments are what makes `` Lindsay '' worth watching . `` What 'Lindsay ' succeeds most at is , for the first time in years , convincing us that Lindsay Lohan is n't a name in an Us Weekly headline or a joke in a late-night monologue or a character in a drama so wild it ca n't possibly be real life , '' Fallon writes . `` She 's a human . She 's a very fragile , volatile , slightly selfish human . But she 's one who 's working really hard to find peace in the eye of the very large , very tumultuous storm that surrounds her and is causing those dangerous traits . '' As for everyone else , there 's little draw outside of the opportunity to sharpen one 's snarky barbs . `` A small part of me died when I found out this is more than a one episode show , '' tweeted The Hollywood Reporter 's TV critic Tim Goodman , while Entertainment Weekly 's Erin Strecker tried to rustle up a silver lining . `` Encouraging sign # 1 , '' Strecker said . `` She finally got a driver . '' Actress Chloe Grace Moretz , meanwhile , could n't even joke about what she was watching on Sunday : `` this is just genuinely sad , '' she posted on Twitter . `` I feel bad . '' Lohan had to know when she signed up for `` Lindsay '' that she was leaving herself wide open to this wide-ranging barrage of reactions , especially to comments like the one she made about a past jail stint . `` The judge at the time that I had kept overruling me getting released even though they were overcrowded , '' Lohan recalled of time spent in solitary confinement . `` She kept making me stay there . What they were doing was punishing me instead of trying to help me . '' But , even with the possibility of this docu-series experiment going awry , it seems `` Lindsay '' is worth the risk for the former child star . `` I 'm trying to figure out how to be sane and live , '' she said during Sunday 's episode . `` ( I was ) in this bubble where everything was done for me , and now , I 'm figuring everything out for myself . '' 7 things from Lohan 's sit down with Oprah Winfrey in August .
Lindsay Lohan 's OWN reality series debuted Sunday . The show follows the lives of a group of young women who are trying to make it in Hollywood. She was accompanied by a sober coach as she tried to adhere to a clean lifestyle .