The premiere of Girls Club after Boston Public had about as much to do with working at a law firm as Birds of Prey has to do with crime-fighting. In other words, nothing. The most promising thing about the show is the Women's Cellblock Movie potential, complete with an elder female lawyer who's one monacle away from being a German Warden. The young legal fillies have nicknamed her "Praying Mantis" which seems wordy compared to my immediate nickname "Cunt".

To these "girls" being a Praying Mantis is only surpassed on the Female Horror Scale by being a Dyke. I'm so clueless I didn't realize Dyke was such a terrible thing but to White Straight Librals it's the New Fag. Deep underneath all this tiptoeing is some Message about how Overly Politically Correct We All Are or something to appease alot of guilty consciences. They then kept referring to her as "homosexual" like she was caught in a fifties hygiene flick. Just for the record, I think it's Ok to say Lesbian.

I've been lovers with two lawyers (at different times) and have experienced the intense competition in that career. Lawyers are in my experience generally anal perfectionists, law being the ultimate mindfuck, and getting a whole group of them together can be a little Lord of the Flies.

These Lost Girls dress like they work at Barbie Law Firm, preferring severly tailored suits that are Early Airline Stewardess. You can tell they're Lawyers because they favor Quirky Glasses, my fav being a pair of black Cat-Eyes. The story takes place in SF, complete with breathtaking views and Fabulous Fantasy Apartment, the kind of thing that would rent for around $10,000,000 a month.

I never quite understood who does what at work. They're all junior associates or junior partners or something that isn't as much fun as being a Cheerleader.

Frankly I think this idea was dead in the water. Alley McBeal nose-dived from Popularity and this smells too much like the Same Idea. One Goody-Two-Pumps was enough and it was the Bitches like Lucy Liu's character that kicked it up. Girl's Club is Catholic School without the good stuff - no ciggies, no boys and no talking back to Sister Praying Mantis.

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Boston Public had it's season premiere tonight. BP is one of my Guilty Pleasures. I've watched it since it began and I could probably only remember why I started under deep hypnosis.

The setting for the show is, without a doubt, the Most Fucked-Up High School Ever. Fortunately for the writers, this results in a virtual petri dish of High Schools Issues. Bad grades are way low on the problem list. This school has pregnant, gay, transexual Columbine-stalking prom queens. That's just the faculty.

Tonight's show had a scene where a teacher walked into the girl's bathroom. This is where all the Bad Girls hang, lounging around smoking cigarettes and listening to loud music. It was like backstage at a Mizrahi show. Only one girl on the show lacks super-model status and she gets the lucky role of the Shamed Teenage Mother (natch). She has her baby in the first scene, her screams of labor intercut with school choir practice. It scored a seven on the Ew Factor.

BP has a heavy agenda, every plot point underlining Big Mensa Moments like "Teachers work hard for little pay" and "Violence can happen to anyone". You can always tell when you're about to be handed a Message because they start talking in "we's", "We" have to pay more attention to our kids, "we" have to put more money into education. "We" would kill to have lighting like this all the time but unfortunately "we" didn't go to Drama Show High.

I thought Jeri Ryan rocked as Seven of Nine but her Human Character is too much Ally McBeal and not enough Borg. I think a few paperclips or erasers glued to her eyebrow couldn't hurt, it might even explain her character's motivation for working at Real World Prep.

I have no connection or "In" to what High School is really like these days. It may be like this, this video waiting to happen. Except on BP things don't happen, Situations Arise and are scored to a Current Song. Usually not one I've heard before, but one that sounds cliché enough I can imagine Real Teens hearing it and rolling their eyes.

9:07:38 PM    sro home /

En homáge. Because I'd never heard of RCG. Because she's funny. Because she's tall.

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