Gee, I wonder why. I'm sure it has nothing to do with my current pre-midlife crisis. Anyway, I love this series. If it's new to you too, it's like Parenthood meets Scrubs. If it's old to you, then you know why I love it.
Ok, let's take the 80's factor out of this show first. Cuz........whew, visually it can be rough. The above picture is nothing compared to what this show throws at you. Season 1 started in 1987. No trickle down fashion from the 1970's WHATSOEVER. You see.....now, in 2011, we draw from the good nostalgia factor of the 80's - the music and the bright colors, the awesome cartoons and epic movies. I mean, really, we all thought we were living in a John Hughes film, because we were. Even little black girl me from the 80's wanted to be Uncle Buck's niece. I wanted to be Rudy Huxtable. I had Gem dolls, hi-tops with 2 tongues and 2 sets of laces. I had bushy eyebrows and wore my Mom's shoulder-padded clothes around the house. We look back on those days and they are warm and fuzzy. We forget how ugly the 80's was because we are now able to FILTER our 80's memories and mix it with our current 21st century life.
The key word there was "filter".
We've filtered such outfits like this...........hold on to your chair.....................
I recently watched this episode and I audibly gasped. Suddenly, my Mom's bedroom closet flooded back to me like a acid-washed tidal wave. Why in the hell were women dressing 50 lbs heavier?? Let's break this down for a second because i've had almost 3 seasons of this show in. This character's real name is Melanie Mayron. She's my fave on the show. She's an artist and the sound of her biological clock keeps her up at night. I have NO IDEA why she's my fave.....................
Anyway, she's got this great NY/PA accent, she is as cute as a button....and she is wearing numbers all over her body.
I thought i'd just state the obvious. Even the old lady in the background is dressed better. .....See how distracting just one outfit is?
Thanks 1987!
Ok....wow. She is actually also stunning, but looks HORRIBLE. Her unflattering man hair, and again with the shoulder pads and the sleeves to her blazer pushed up TIGHTLY. But look how nervous she is that someone that looks like HIM is hitting on her. He has pedophile hair and really awful ROUND glasses that we see throughout Season 2. Remember round glasses? Unflattering for everyone.
Thanks 1988!
Patricia Wettig. She's beautiful. Crazy watery eyes aside, she's beautiful. A classic elegant beauty, a great actress and holy crap what where they putting in her hair??!! This woman's hair is distractingly shiny, full, bouncy and blonde. I want to hate her, but I can't. She's an amazing actress, and plays the neurotic divorcee down to a T.
She hasn't aged and I think it has to do with the deal she made with the devil to never age and always have beautiful hair. On second thought, I do hate her now.
Please don't let that stop you. This is a great show.
Oh, and my crush on this show.......
Listen, blondes are not my type, really. A blonde mullet SHOULD make a black woman run in the opposite direction in fear for her life. Peter Horton, however......is gorgeous. Smoldering even. And yes, those will be my next pair of glasses if I can help it.
See?? HOTTT..........He's hot. Nordic-like..Ha!
This show, for me, proves the challenges and questions of life NEVER EVER change. We are all human beings trying to achieve happiness, trying to create a better life than the ones we had, one day at a time. Black, White, Asian, Hispanic, Pacific Islander, West Indian. Today, tomorrow, 25 years ago, 50 years ago. Underneath the mullets, shoulder pads, damaging perms, Aqua Net, and 5lb glasses, we were and still are, all the same.
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