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Fugs and Fabs: The FOX Upfronts


We need to talk about the FOX shows. Well, I haven’t watched the comedy clips yet, but the dramas… I can’t tell if they’re a steaming pile of awful or secretly so hate-watchably amazing that it becomes love-watching. Almost Human stars Karl Urban and Michael Ealy and LILI TAYLOR WHY ARE YOU THERE, and here is my run-on sentence summary: It’s set in a world where cops have cyborg partners, but Karl doesn’t care for this, see, because he’s been asleep for two years (?) and doesn’t have anyone around him like Ironside does to shout things like “DAMMIT, MAN, WE HAVE PROCEDURES TO BE FOLLOWED,” so he crankily throws his cyborg out of the car and it gets run over by a semi and then a “defective” old-model detective is assigned to him, and it’s Ealy, and he says things like “I WAS MADE TO FEEL,” and a grudging-respect is born and also probably some conspiracy hooey. Urban looks like he’s phoning it in so hard and so long that his roaming charges will be astronomical. Cramazing.

And yada-yada Greg Kinnear in Rake as a ne’er-do-well (not a gardening tool, though the latter might inspire Emmy voters more) is zzzzzz, AND THEN. Sleepy Hollow has to be seen to be believed. It’s like Thor (Olde-Tymey Ichabod Crane comes back to life in modern America; makes wry comments about how many Starbucks we have and whether the black cops have all been emancipated, because slavery jokes are a treasure) meets National Treasure: Book of Horsemen (“THE ANSWERS ARE IN WASHINGTON’S BIBLE, ICHABOD! ICHABOOOOOOD!!!!!”) and even includes a moment when the cops shout “PUT YOUR HANDS ON YOUR HEAD… oh, wait” and ends with the slogan “Heads. Will. Roll.” As Stefon would say, “It. Has. Everything.” As I would say, “It. Is. Hilarrible.” I’m virtually certain I will watch. Then again, I said that when The Cape‘s hilarrible promo came out a few years ago, and I only made it through an episode and a half.

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Fugs and Fabs: The Costume Designers’ Guild Awards


We need to talk about Anne’s hair again.

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Fugs and Fabs: Elle‘s Women In Television Event


Suspenders are not back. They are not back. They are not back. I’m going to say it over and over until it’s confirmed.

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Fug or Fab: Cat Deeley


I’m indecisive today. But on second looks I’m seeing the coolness in a dress I’d initially written off as a feather duster. Plus, it’s Election Day here, so we might as well make it all voting all the time.

The simple tank (?) under there with a fancy skirt is a nice idea, and the jacket is in that funky mismatch-chic vein — you wouldn’t expect it in this context — but I just cannot decide if the whole equals the sum of its parts, so to speak. The concept? Sure. The execution? I don’t know if it’s that she’s hunching slightly, as if not totally convinced of it all herself, or if it just really isn’t panning out. At least her hair looks great, though. I stare at her and think, “Oh, Blake Lively, if you would just BRUSH more often…”

So she thinks she can dress?

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Emmy Awards Fugs and Fabs: Cleaning Out My Lightbox


Were the Emmys underattended this year? It feels like we usually drive this boat until at least Thursday. I guess that’s what happens when they don’t air on FOX and Glee isn’t nominated. That’s about thirty people right there who stay home in their jammies.

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Fug the Cover: Cat Deeley


First of all, I don’t watch So You Think You Can Dance regularly, although I have seen it, and Cat Deeley is certainly terrifically charming on it. I cherish a theory that eventually she and Blake Lively will be cast in some kind of rambling indie movie where they play sisters in minor but pivotal roles. Mostly because I can’t wait to see Blake Lively try to pull off an English accent. I also can’t wait for someone to put poor Cat Deeley on the cover of a magazine where she doesn’t look like she fell out of the background of The Stepford Wives. This doesn’t look like her face OR her hair. On the other hand, I REALLY want to read about “Britain’s Scariest Dowagers.” So…you know, half-well-done, Tatler. Tell me more. We can deal with what you did to Cat later. I just need to know if the Dowager Countess of Grantham is on the list. Personally, I just find her very misunderstood.

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