Emmy Awards Fug Carpet: Mary-Louise Parker

So, I stopped watching Weeds right around when Nancy Botwin decided it would be a good idea to traipse around Tijuana dressed like a prostitute. I mean, Mary-Louise Parker has a great body and all, but when you’re smuggling illegal drugs across the Mexican/US border, maybe you ought to consider looking a bit less conspicuous.

However, I’m beginning to wonder if an excessive attachment to whipping out the gams is a Nancy Botwin affectation, or if it’s a trait of Mary-Louise Parker’s that has bled from fact into fiction. Behold:

This dress is cute. I like it. She’s in great shape (she’s 45! She looks ten years younger — thanks perhaps to Botox, in part, but still!). This could totally work…for a cocktail party. Or a movie premiere. And even then, perhaps it would be better on someone very young, like Vanessa Hudgens young, because it smells a bit cutesy for me with the bow. For the Emmys? On a grown-ass woman? REALLY? I don’t think so.