More Conflict and Contradiction, More Anger and Alcohol for The Agency
More Conflict and Contradiction, More Anger and Alcohol for The Agency by Roxanne McDonald
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They look for thin and tall; then a chosen model is too tall. They find flaws; then the photographers and others point out those “flaws” as assets. What’s really going on at that Agency? |
First, let me start with a small disclaimer. I have an interest in the show but may be cheeky about the agents—bitching about their contradictory natures when I in fact contradict myself often. I take notes, but often miss full names or the correct names or the spelling of names—and doing extra research on Vh1 is not only time-consuming (the pages take forever to load) but less than fruitful, as they have a poorly demarcated bios/names section (my point being that it is a most frustrating-to-navigate site…most user-unfriendly). And I have no beauty industry background and am in fact just an intrigued viewer (what else could programming execs want, right?) who looks more like a candidate for “The Swan” than any reality TV beauty recruit show.
That said, here are my grousing observations for episode 3 [I think]:
Peter is first up on the episode that continues to scout for beautiful boys and girls to make Wilhelmina some money but that also introduces the agents having to answer to higher powers (no, not gods, but they may as well be). Peter has to report to Deiter and Brad on what the crunch-time plans are.
The agents have found a hot male model and a beautiful female model. However, Becky is as bitchy as ever,
starting her latest tirade with “Oh. My. God.” going on with how a good model is moving all the time, every time and how Ariane must change herself every shot and how she’s a bit stiff and she’s a model, and ending with comments to Carlos how Ariane’s skin is “funky” and she’s a bit “tall” and she “didn’t know how to model.”
Uh. First, did they not consume a whole episode with desperate searches for tall and thin models? Did Carlos not approve wholeheartedly? Do they not invite Ariane back for the Cristo show in Barcelona? And, does another expert [I missed his name] not tell her she has “amazing skin, really gorgeous”? Does Becky even know what she is talking about, then?
I get it, Becky is a shill, a plant, a pull-in-viewers character.
Pink is just as if not more than disgusted with his colleague. He says she goes “launching into a whole stream of negativity”—which he can’t have.
Meanwhile, in the limo on the way to a bar (again with the drinking), Becky is telling someone (blonde, but not Lola) she can’t have someone telling her she needs to manage her models [better]. She also says something about how he can get his own ^$@^^^#$% (again with the language). The woman with Becky appears to not be listening…or trying not to listen.
Scouting at the beach, they find a handsome kid, then proceed to tell him he needs to lose a little weight and could use a little bit of work.
Pink bitches out Lola in front of others in the office, after he cannot locate her at the show (cause she’s off with Lola, oohing repeatedly and obnoxiously over champagne). He’s pissed and lecturing. She’s pissed and humiliated. So, of course, the next scene features Lola and Becky are at a bar, again, this time with Lola doing some of the bitching.
There are more negotiations and discussions (with Peter guy and his CEO bosses), then there is one more get-together, with the team at another bar and Peter summing it up for all of them: “I am going to end up drinking so much tonight it’s gonna get ugly.”
Whew. This avid reality TV fan is hung over—and I haven’t had a drink since, oh, Christmas Eve?
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