Can you feel the brisk air outside? The days getting shorter? The Labor Day weekend passing you by?
All those are signs of the summer passing and the fall (tv season) starting.
And CW is out to get your soul.
Make no mistake about it.
Yeah sure, that new Steven Boschco drama on TNT looked good (it isn't, I pained my way through it), and Molly Shannon and Selma Blair look cute in "Cath and Kim" and "Office" and "My Name is Earl" and "30 Rock" are still fun, and "Mad Men" are all the rage and Lee Pace WILL return with "Pushing daisies" (and I DEFINITELY watch too much TV), but it is CW that is out to get your soul.
One slowly addicting hour at a time.
This week kicks off the first episodes of "90210" (the remake), the first tranny contestant on "America's next top model" (or as I like to call it "You will never be a model for real") and "Stylista" which has Anne Slovey gearing up to be America's next top Elle editor (and starring Johanna Cox who used to write DC's own "A serious job is no excuse" before running off to do this) and kicked off last night with the scorcher that is the 2nd season premiere of "Gossip girl" a show so adept at brain washing the American public, we actually wrote about it before. With Disdain.
I was even going to boycott it but then I saw ads like this for it and decide to bite the silver (spoon) bullet:
I watched most of the first season, and recruited Haley as my expert advisor (she just powered through the whole 5 discs of it on DVD) and this is what we encountered:
-The show, more so than ever is about clothes. Sex and gossip and privilege too. But mainly clothes.
-It opens up in the Hamptons and while Chuck (who, and I am not sure how unwittingly or wittingly, has become the funniest character on TV) is carousing with topless girls, Serena wears blousy cover-ups that, in all seriousness, need to belong to me:
-We find the gang as hodgepodged as ever: Nate is dating an older woman (Madchen Amick who, in all seriousness, does not look a day older than she did on "Twin Peaks"), Serena and Dan are still broken up (resulting in Serena having a non-relationship-relationship with Nate and Dan becoming a bro-ho now that he knows girls like him), Chuck is sulking and pining for Blair, Blair is arriving from Europe with a blandly handsome new suitor and Jennie (who I just discovered was the little CindyLou HOO girl in "The Grinch") movie a few years back is summer interning at the Waldorf fashion casa.
-There is ample opportunity for Ferragamo swimwear (the maillot Blair wears in a pool side scene would not look out of place on a young Natalie Wood), white grecian gowns, and a hilarious tea party fight in which Chuck and Blair (she in green, he in teal) PERFECTLY MATCH the garden in which they are arguing:
"I LOVE THE ART DIRECTION" Haley squeeled.
And I agreed.
It is one giant fashion spread, after all.
-There are twists and turns and a cameo by Tinsley Mortimer (looking both anorexic AND tanorexic) and a kissing sequence followed by the inevitable interruption that had me covering my eyes and screaming for 15 seconds because my inner teenager could not handle it.
-Chuck wears a sailing boat sweater and a tux with black piping.
-Blair cries.
-But her make-up stays perfect, her hair intact, her alice-bands unskewed.
It is all too cute and precious and predictable and perfectly groomed.
I am so hooked I can barely deal with my own shame.
So much so that I even stayed away from the "Hills" just so as to not dilute my newfound and stirred emotions.
Did you watch it?
Admit it.
Previously in Misc/Awesome:
- 12/28: Terrible Boyfriend/ Girlfriend Generator.
- 12/1: The John Waters Advent Calendar-it starts today
- 11/28: It Chooses You: All I Want for Christmas is Everything from Miranda July's Pop-Up Shop
- 11/3: Things I'd Move to Minnesota For
- 9/6: PHOTOS: Maloof $$ Money Cup
- 9/2: PHOTOS: Chantilly Model Train Show
- 9/1: Libby's List: 5 Things I Want Right Now...
- 8/22: PHOTOS: Best Friends Day
- 8/10: PHOTOS: Lawn Mover Racing, Eastern Seaboard Regionals @ Bowles Farm
- 7/26: Special List: Things the BYGays Want Now That We Can Marry In DC (and NY!)
God loves a cheerful giver.
Totally watched it. Loved it. And how could you not mention what is perhaps the campiest moment I have ever seen on non-ANTM tv: "actually, I'm a British LORD". Come on! That was so over the top it was hilarious and awesome.
of course you loved it, Jesse. of course.
@Becca: HA!
Some of these scene setups where they are constantly showing Blair in lingerie with the mirror strategically place to show the ass are MAGNIFICENT. PARTY HOUSE APPROVED.
I smell a very special live blogging session.
svetlana, i'm with you on that live blogging.
of course it's over the top, everything about it is horribly delicious, i mean nate and serena kiss and dan shows up, saw that coming, dan forgiving serena, of course because their meant for eachother even if their parents aren't?
i still can't get over the fact that lillie and rufus dated and now their kids are, something about just seems slightly incestuous, no?
i'm an addict. i'll admit it.
I can see the headline now: "Gossip Girl: A Very Special Liveblog from the Party House".
Let's do this.
I'm moving to Paris for a six month post on Thursday and despair over missing new episodes of Gossip Girl is almost as great as despair over missing my friends and lover.
Only if we can watch it while crushing Cold budweiser in the hot tub
chris you can watch it doing whatever you'd like.
i'm all about this liveblogging. svet, it looks like it'll be more than just me and you (and morgan and i guess eddie counts) for this show. i'm excited.
what made you think it was ok to include me in this, amanda? i will never watch this gay ass show.
Do you know what we should live-blog? My quitting smoking.
and then we can liveblog about your starting again. oooohhh!!
No way dude. I put it on the interwebs. If I go back on it then I'm a pussy or a politician like OMcBain.
Holy Fuck. That's actually brilliant. OMcBain.
whatever, eddie. we already knew about your gayness. you told us last week.
i'm excited about michael quitting. this means more time spent inside lipsyncing-michael for the rest of us. sweet.
We should also livetype the Delilah show. That radio personality? Christ I was subjected to her last night in a Chinese joint.