So last night I got home from readings and drinkings and such, and turned on the TV to find that my DVR was taping The Starter Wife. Earlier in the week I'd bought into the hype and taped it, mostly because if I read the next day that it was good, I wanted to have it around. But I decided to go ahead and give it five minutes, and whoa, lo and behold, I kind of loved it! I couldn't keep this Secret Shame to myself though, so I texted my friend Jess, the one most likely to forgive this lapse into cliche-girliness:
Me: Uh...the starter wife is really good?
Jess: I'm about 20 min into it...I love it
Me: Me too, I was hoping you were watching! I love you! Yay!
Jess: I think 90% of all vaginas with access to basic cable are watching, seriously. You're the 3rd one to text! I love you women everywhere. I'm going gay!
Me: Omg I seriously thought I was the only one watching. I might blog this. (Ed: yeah. sigh.)
Jess: I was thinking the same!
Me: You know who is loving this? Aniston!
Jess: Omg sooo right
Me: Ok, it's getting a little obvs but I still love.
Jess: Me too. Tons.
Jess: Love the Ponds placement during her self-affirmation speech
Me: Just got there. I use that moisturizer every day.
Jess: That's a helluva sponsorship deal
Me: I know. Annoying.
I actually didn't realize it was a series (and not a tv movie) until almost the end when I was all "how are they going to wrap this up?" I'm dumb. Anyway, it does get sort of obvious toward the end, but it's summer and all my shows are dark. I'll be watching...probably with friends next week. NOT with Cosmos. That's where I draw the ever-thinning line...
You really show your hand as a less-naive-then-you-pretend-media-insider when you say "all my shows are dark."
Posted by: Worker #3116 | June 01, 2007 at 12:54 PM
What was with all the hats on Messing?
There were definitely some really lame moments but I was loving it too. Crappy cable lifetime-esque miniseries!
Posted by: Laura | June 01, 2007 at 02:19 PM
And you know it's on for Write & Wrong, where Kirstie Alley plays a talented, but victim of age-discrimination screenwriter, forced to peddle her wares through a younger proxy.
Oh yeah, it's on.
Posted by: michclp | June 01, 2007 at 05:16 PM
There was hype on The Starter Wife?
Posted by: Jameson | June 04, 2007 at 10:10 PM