Wednesday, January 28, 2009

That is way too much information for me to be hearing...You're an adult. You're what 23 years old. You're not in high school.



Inexplicably Jay and Adam are planning an art show and this will be the central plot device of the show this week.

First, Whitney invites Olivia to the party and when she tries to update her on the drama Olivia will have none of it. Apparently she is too mature and wise to hear about these trivial happenings. (She needs to learn that one of her jobs is to listen to the recaps and not what is happening. Someone didn't pay attention to the Hills. If you don't ask the questions or you get sick of the drama you may lose your job, both the one the show and your real job. This happened to that chick from Bolthouse who Heidi took the promotion from.) The worst part about Olivia's speech wasn't the demeaning tone or the way her voice flipped from fake to disgusted it was the fact that Whitney just took it. She wouldn't even complain about the rude treatment later to Erin. Doesn't she know she is the star. LC would not have put up with this type of treatment.

So then the big art opening happens and Cat decides she needs to tell Allie the truth. He never said he had a girlfriend, they kissed, and this is true information female to female. Allie is crying and finally heads for the bathroom. Thank God because this was unbelievably awkward and even slightly painful to watch. Whitney even has to cover her eyes. Whitney tries to console her and then Adam comes to try to deny everything. I mean at this point it is getting harder and harder to deny it but as my husband said, "he's too far in." Annoyingly this drama ends with a conversation on the streets of NYC and the use of the word honey a million times. There was also a good lesson from Allie about what it means to be empathetic vs. actually feeling something. (Dinner at the end of the show coupled with next weeks preview I forsee a whole season of lies and them staying together.)


Olivia and Nevan attend the party and then later dish about the 'scene' and bad mouth "down town hipsters" who sport "fedoras" or "whatever like the look is". I can scarcely believe Olivia would deign to discuss the high school like topics with Nevan. She apparently does not feel superior to him. He doesn't purposely hang with those feckless hipsters. They are so pretentious and am already a little sick of them. Olivia is concerned about Whitney diversifying her friend group while she and Nevan can't think of any friends they have that aren't socials.

Also Jay receives heat from Whitney because if his friend is capable of this who knows the kind of stuff he might try to pull in the future. He is not pleased to be considered guilty by association.


**In Gossip Girl news: Rerun of the episode of either Bart's funeral or the one where he dies. Also I read in US Weekly (I don't normally read it but JLH is on the cover) that they are going to pilot a show that chronicles Lily's wild youth in California. Sounds promising.

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  2. i am not convinced that olivia is smart enough to be the villain. she was supposed to be smart and evil to whitney's dumb and genuine, which is maybe what she was going for when she decided to place herself above what we all know the focus of the show should be?

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  3. also i don't know why the comment deleted the first time. i think it might be time to invest in internet in my apartment so i can stop going to this cafe for my expatv fix.

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