Screening Room: Teen Stars We Love - #3 - Identity Crisis(es)
Thursday, September 29, 2011 at 10:56AM | Sylvia Creamer - Staff Writer This week's episodes:
Hart of Dixie - "Pilot"
Ringer - "If You Ever Want a French Lesson..."
Let's kick things off with Hart of Dixie:
Dr. Zoe Hart (Rachel Bilson) flees from New York City to Bluebell, Alabama after getting rejected from a fellowship that would have allowed her to follow in her fathers footsteps of becoming a Cardiothoracic Surgeon - a word that when spoken by Dr. Hart sounds more like she’s ordering a 10 word drink at Starbucks than discussing the medical profession. Anyway, so why Bluebell you ask? Well, turns out that Dr. Hart was pursued by Harley Wilks for years to join his medical practice. When Zoe arrives in Bluebell she finds out that not only is Harley Wilks dead, but he left his entire practice to her. As you would.
Day one in Bluebell goes a little something like this: Hitchhike into town with a cute lawyer, move into the mayors crappy shack in his back yard, meet the hot neighbour, run into an alligator while walking to crap shack in the dark, find out cute lawyer is engaged, get drunk on the side of the road, make out with hot neighbour in his car as he tries to drive you home, scramble out of the car realizing hot neighbour is decidedly less hot, wake up feeling awful and no further ahead than you were yesterday.
Day two doesn’t go much better. Zoe’s Mom shows up and tries to bring her home. She almost goes until she gets distracted by delivering a baby to a mother who didn’t know she was pregnant until yesterday. Just as she’s about to get in the car she is informed that Harley Wilks is actually her father. She pulls a Rachel McAdams a la The Notebook and tells her rich overbearing mom to beat it. She then goes to visit Harley’s grave to tell him that his town smells like mould but she’s going to stick around anyway.
Despite having craploads of money, somehow Zoe ends up wearing Chanel on a bus to Bluebell Alabama with a bevy of characters including a man with a fishing pole. Security isn’t so tight on buses these days.
Next up - the Mayor of Bluebell. He’s a pretty slick dresser but needs to figure out a way to keep his eyes open. Anyway it turns out the Mayor is former NFL star Lavon Hayes. I’ll allow you to take a minute to Google NFL star Lavon Hayes. Done? Find anything? Yea he’s not real. You can’t just go having the mayor of a fake down be a fake NFL player! Not only that he talks in the third person! WTF?!?!?! So if all of these amazingly good traits weren’t enough, Lavon Hayes is also having an affair with Lemon Breeland. Oh snap.
Hart of Dixie got off to a slow and slightly annoying start but once Rachel Bilson figured out she was no longer on The OC, things seemed to pick up. Throw in some juicy love triangle action and you’ve got me hooked!
Moving on to Ringer...
In this week's episode, Bridget-as-Sibohan tries desperately to a) find out who the mysterious cell phone that was discovered in The Murder Trunk (dun dun duuuun!) belongs to, b) figure out who's trying to kill Sibohan, while c) keeping the real version of herself alive. OMG, I had the same items on my to-do list for today! Meanwhile the real Sibohan is living it up in Paris seducing hot bankers at the bar under the name of Cora. At the end of the epsiode the real Sibohan realizes that she is pregnant while B-as-S has actually known for quite some time!
Because Bridget-as-Sibohan is convinced everyone is out to kill her and her twin, she’s a tad on edge. So when Andrew arranges a private viewing of Douglas Hannant’s collection so she can find an outfit for the ballet, she automatically assumes that he is trying to kill her. And she can’t even take the edge of by having a glass of champagne because she has to pretend she is prego!
After leaving Douglas Hannann’t the crew goes to grab some lunch. I have no idea who this gem in the middle is but I’m LOVING his outfit. The military style jacket paired with a turtle neck is too cute for words. Also Gemma is killing it with these hot pink pants. A bold move for someone with such vibrant red hair but I love that she matched them with a black top. Well played Gemma. Perhaps your husband will now love you again.
The real Sibohan surfaces at a bar in Paris and seduces a young businessman. Not sure what the deal will be here but it looks like she is after his money given that Bridget-as-Sibohan has cleaned her out. She certainly doesn’t look broke though. She is accessorized to the max - typically I would say this is overkill but she balances all the bling with a really simple up-do.
Andrew and his business partner scheme over how to keep Henry and Gemma’s investment in their company. Andrew proves that he is a good guy and doesn’t fight them on it. However, his bitchy but well dressed business partner (seriously - her dress is fab) has a lot to say about this. Looks like Henry might have married Gemma for her Daddy’s money.
After getting ratted out by some woman in an elevator (aka Phyllis from Young and the Restless) for going to see a divorce lawyer, Andrew confronts her on it. Bridget-as-Sibohan grabs a letter opener to defend herself but Andrew leaves and goes back to the office. This gets B-as-S all teary and she decides to make things right. So she shows up at Andrews office in a dress.
At fi rst I was shocked and horrified because she was wearing what appeared to be a green blob. Soon enough, she dropped the shawl and revealed the gorgeous gown below. It was so awesome and magical, that Andrew proposed they start over and promise to always tell each other the truth. Someone had their fingers crossed behind their back in a huge way ‘cause guess what Andrew... this isn’t even your wife!! But seriously. Amazing gown.
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