Shear Genius - “We’re so pretty!”
Posted July 31st, 2008 in All, Beauty Wars, Celebrities, Entertainment and TV Moment of the Weak
I’m not gonna lie. I haven’t laughed this hard since the first time I shut my eyes and listened to that Rene guy try to spit out a whole sentence at once. Bravo’s Shear Genius has unequivocally the best unintentional comedy on television, bar none. Maybe you have to either be a girl or or a gay stylist to appreciate it, but it’s definitely there. And this week’s episode was the best of the worst as far as I’m concerned.
If you’ve missed all the hair love, here’s more than you need to know. Shear Genius is one of the multiple Bravo shows spawned by the success of Project Runway, which also rarely disappoints…or perhaps that should be regularly disappoints. Point being, they take a bunch of designers/stylists/hairdressers/whatever, throw them into a bunch of silly challenges and have the whole thing hosted by some icon in the industry. Shear Genius, the hair version, is hosted by ex-Charlie’s Angel Jaclyn Smith, presumably because they couldn’t get Farrah Fawcett.
On this week’s episode, they brought in former Angel Kate Jackson to guest judge (again presumably because they couldn’t get Farrah Fawcett). After the world’s most heinous hair color challenge (proof - the chick on the left was the winner), they gave all the stylists the “challenge” of re-creating and updating the classic Charlie’s Angels hairstyles. Hilarity ensued. Kate Jackson (the smart Angel) lived up to her moniker by telling stories on the other two Angels with the cameras rolling! (My favorite moment - when Kate recalled telling the stage crew to calm down and “let the money brush its hair” when the whole set had to stop so Farrah and Jaclyn could throw their heads upside down and brush their wavy wave waves out. Jaclyn was predictably unthrilled).
But better by far was the judging. You can imagine how the self-impressed ex-angels felt about the new “updated” styles. Pretty much it boiled down to: None of you are as pretty as we were. We were so hot. I mean, we were the hottest hotties on the block and you don’t have a chance at ever being as hot as we were. Hot hot hot. Did we mention that we were ABSOLUTELY fabulous? I mean we were fantastic. Really.
My kudos to Bravo. Escapism at its best. Really.
