A Man. And His Blog.

The life of a high-fashion model appears glamorous and sexy, but as every new model quickly learns, behind the beautiful façade is a world of insecurity and cut-throat competition. Two teenage models who are about to discover this world for themselves are Raina Mayer (Sara Paxton), a seventeen year old with a secret past, and Chris Andrews (Benjamin Hollingsworth), a strikingly handsome Iowa farm boy.

Episode 01: Pilot
I already watched it during my pilot reviews. If you don’t remember or want to catch up, look here. 4,5/10

Episode 02: The Beautiful Aftermath
Baah, what a terrible episode, even though this one worked a bit better than the pilot (and I rated the pilot better than this episode; talk about awkwardness). The characters were better, the actual story was a bit more interesting and the soundtrack was cut back, despite all the songs in the episode, which let me feel that I was listening to the radio. But the acting in here was just terrible. Not only is Egan (Jordan Woolley) pretty much one of the most boring characters I have ever seen in a TV series, but the actor is pretty bad. His scene with Elle Macpherson (she herself didn’t show any acting skills) was just awkwardly terrible. As well as Chris’ photo shoot with the “scam”. And the chemistry between Chris and Raina is so not there. Oh yeah, and Mischa Barton… I don’t know, but she looks just bad in this show.
I don’t know why I watch this series. Normally I would have canceled it immediately…
Well, at least The CW did after this episode. ROFL. 2,5/10

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A new teen soap for the teen soap network The CW. And it should be obvious that The CW chef Dawn Ostroff is not having mega-uber-cool ratings with this one. First: Model shows is not everybody’s taste and only for a specific kind of taste. Second: Another teen show in the pool of millions of teen shows on The CW won’t change tack. And the pilot episode of The Beautiful Life: TBL (more about the insane title later) isn’t going to change everything.

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