The City "He never said he had a girlfriend"

Yep, this aired Monday night. I actually watched it on Tuesday on my DVR, but it left me feeling cold so I took a few days and re-watched it.

I liked the early smack-down of Whitney by Olivia. It was nice to invite Olivia to the Art Opening, but the over-sharing of BS drama was annoying so Olivia was right to call Whit out on that. The petty gossip of who kissed whom is more suited for the Laguna/LA crowd. Sure LC and Brody would totally want the scoop, but New Yorkers wouldn't have any of it. That's about the only semblance of real life on the show, so far. Why on earth would Olivia care about whether Adam cheated on Allie and would it really be palpable in a crowd of a few hundred people at the Opening? I wouldn't have given Olivia credit for being "the smart one," but her line about being 23 and not being in high school anymore? Brilliant!

Flash forward to Bergdorf Goodman, which is erroneously labeled as "Uptown." Does MTV really think no one from NY or the general area would know that Bergdorf is in Midtown on 58th and 5th? Anyway, Catarina and Samantha are having lunch and I can't help but wonder what stops Samantha from getting dental work to eliminate the distracting gap between her two front teeth?

Why does Catarina feel as if she needs to have "like a hundred shots of tequila before going to this thing," meaning the Art Opening? Geez--you kissed a guy who failed to mention he had a girlfriend. Now you know everyone involved will be at this opening--how about not showing up? Go and see a movie instead and get on with your life? I guess because that would be far less dramatic. Samantha tells Cat that she needs to tell Allie, girl to girl, what happened. But why??

While shopping for tequila for the Art Gallery Opening, we see Jay and Adam. Jay asks Adam, flat out, if anything happened. Adam, looking guilty, shrugs but never denies it.

Erin and Whitney are in Whitney's apt, getting ready for the big night out and Erin reiterates how girls have to stick together--as if telling another girl that you kissed her boyfriend is some form of solidarity? Whitney explains that Jay is siding with Adam.


Finally--on to the Opening on the Lower East Side. Whitney shows up wearing some type of headgear that makes her look like a hippie, straight out the 60s, except it's gold and glittery. And ridiculous. Olivia, and her (prostitute hiring) cousin, Nevan arrive. Cue Samantha and Cat and feel the tension as Adam sees them from across the crowded room.

Allie mentions how it "feels like high school" because Cat has told everyone that she wants to talk to Allie, but she hasn't made a move. That makes two dimwits, in one episode, who realize this show is a regression from the days of Laguna Beach. Even that show, which was about high school felt LESS like high school than this. Good grief.

Catarina and Samantha move into Whitney's circle, but just stand around laughing and Allie notes it's "Awkward, awkward, awkward." Finally, Allie makes the move to clear the air and Cat explains that she and Adam did kiss, but he never told her he had a girlfriend. She continues, "I can't live with a lie." Holy drama.

Allie asks Cat to look her in the eye and, no bullshit, tell her what happened. Cat repeats that she and Adam kissed and a sad tear falls down Allie's face.

After completing her mission of telling Allie the grizzly truth, Cat says, "I can't be here anymore," to which Allie replies, "You can't be here anymore? I can't go home anymore. How about that?"

For some reason, Cat begins crying and Allie takes off for the ladies room, followed by Whitney. Adam asks Jay what's going on and although he has been nowhere near the drama, he tells Adam that Cat spilled the beans and Allie is crying in the bathroom. Adam goes to Allie and Whitney returns to Cat where she tells her friends, "Allie is NOT okay." Meanwhile, in the bathroom, Allie is sobbing and Adam wants to go home and talk about it.

Out on the street, the couple agrees that Allie will go back to the apt and Adam will stay elsewhere until they can work things out and Allie disappears into a cab.

Back at Olivia's, she is debriefing the night before with Nevan. They are mocking the group who attended the Art Opening (Nevan says, "Oh, yeah, I wear a fedora and live downtown," in his best hipster impersonation). He points out that he and Olivia grew up "Uptown" and as they throw stones at the others, I imagine Nevan's mugshot photo in my mind and laugh. At Nevan.



I guess hiring a prostitute in exchange of Oxycontin and getting arrested are deliciously "Uptown."


Whitney and Jay have a strained convo at Whitney's apt (*more about Whitney's apt in next post) about Adam and the alleged kiss. Jay insists that he believes Adam's version of events because he asked Adam and Adam said nothing happened (which wasn't exactly the truth from what we saw). Whit tells Jay she thinks Jay's friends are a reflection of who he is and Jay, smartly, points out that she's taking it a bit too far.

Meanwhile, down in SoHo, Adam waits for Allie in a bar and when she shows up, in Ice Queen mode, Adam insists Cat made the whole thing up. Allie relives the moment when Cat told her and she says Cat seemed like she felt soooo bad, to which Adam quickly deflects, "Maybe she felt so bad since she knew she was lying." Wow. Allie says she knows how much she loves Adam and how they "always said they'd be a team" and so she reverses herself and now refuses to believe Cat. (Side note--Allie and Adam know each other about as long as Jay and Whitney have known each other so when she uses the phrase "We always said we'd be a team"....the ALWAYS, at this point, is about a few months). Perspective.

Allie and Adam leave the bar arm-in-arm and that's the end of the show. What a mind-numbing waste of 22 minutes.

The previews for next week look as idiotic. Kelly Cutrone tells Allie she's too skinny and Allie's feelings get hurt. Is this the best this show can do? With a backdrop like Manhattan and the premise of a young LA girl taking the fashion biz by storm, we have a male model who clearly kissed another girl, girl reports this to his girlfriend, drama ensues and male model and too-skinny female model patch things back up? Is this show even about Whitney or is she flat out too boring to carry a thirty minute show?