Don’t Trust the B showed remarkable prescience in this week’s episode. Temporarily, at least. “Sexy People…” focused on the lead up to the announcement of People’s Sexiest Man Alive, 2012. For a while there, June was fighting Channing Tatum’s corner. They totally called it.
This was the episode that I felt finally reclaimed the charm and bizarreity (yeah, I made up a word, deal with it) of the first season. It provided me with plenty of throw-my-head-back-with-laughter moments, though that could have been because it felt like such an accurate portrayal of magazine life. Chloe ensconcing herself as a Managing Editor at People was perfection. The fact that she was actually good at it made it all the better. And her venom and vitriol was nicely sweetened, as always, by June, JVDB and Luther.
The resurgence of Yac-Yan Da Biznessman’s “Good Good” was a nod to all of us seasoned DTtB veterans, and its new association with James only made it funnier.
The meetings Chloe runs are fantastic and actually explain a lot about magazines like People. The smackwich may be our new favorite thing.
What was most interesting was that Chloe’s argument against People’s Sexiest Man Alive actually echoed a lot of the criticism that’s come in the wake of the selection of Tatum, lending this episode the double whammy of being funny and insightful. This is the DTtB I had missed. – K
Quoteworthy: “Pantsless handstand on horse, not sexy. Now we know.” – Chloe
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