I agree, Vortex -- on both counts. But I hope that they don't do that again. Also, I didn't like the gift of the ring. It just felt wrong to me.

Yeah, I agree with Vortex and Sumi. Overall the show bugged. I liked Veronica and Tim, and I even thought the two of them were appealing together. I loved the lingerie lady.

But first off, she did not look that bad at first! The stuff she wore was long, maybe a little bit tight, but she looked fine. That dress did not fit her bust, was too long, and maybe a bad print, but wasn't horrifying.

What was really, really illustrative was that when she went to Catherine Malandrino, every single dress looked absolutely fabulous. Because they're incredibly expensive dresses! (And they were probably pinned. They weren't exactly getting the same consideration from Scoop.)

So, the moral of the show is: you are finally most yourself when two people tell you you look horrible in what you like wearing, and you put on a designer dress. Bravo!

ETA: well, not that expensive anymore. I guess Malandrino is cheaper than I ever knew. [link]

I guess tonight's episode is different from the one they showed last night?

Umm, it was a woman named Rebecca Pannino (?) - was that who it was on Wednesday?

I didn't have the same negative reaction to the show that bonbon did. I mean, I disliked what I disliked but I thought that moral of the session at Catherine Malandrino was that even the most amazing dresses can be wrong for your particular body -- i.e., that you always have to try lots of stuff on until you know what works for you.

I don't think it was, from what I understand. But I remember one more annoying thing, in addition to the ring-- the cancer mom mawkishness. I mean, the "surgery" mom mawkishness. "She can't make it...she made it!" @@

ETA: I don't disagree that they were trying to express that-- but what a lame premise! Tim's whole role last night was passing judgment on the dresses Rebecca tried on. At the end of the show, what did we learn? If you have hips, wear more dresses.

Yeah, that bugged too. If she could get there for the end -- how sad that she didn't get the whole experience.

I guess tonight's episode is different from the one they showed last night?

Yes, which I'm glad of. Last night's preview was 10 or 15 minutes. It would have made the show really boring if they'd shown it this week. That episode will probably be in a week or two. It was a good teaser, about the 40 year old slutty dressing mom.

I missed the intro to the Tim Gunn show after Top Chef, but I caught the full episode last night.

The ring part was kind of creepy.

I liked her clothes. I thought the make-up was very boring. And what the fuck was up with, "red is the enemy", wrt hair?

There wasn't enough Tim Gunn, and I really didn't like Veronica Web.

What I know about John Barrett: first he was the guru of blonde and now he's taken on brunette. Perhaps red will only be the enemy until he decides to take it on?

The ring part was kind of creepy.

yes, I agree. I hated that part. And if I were the guy, I wouldn't have liked it.