The Starter Wife: Review

If you missed the premier of The Stater Wife you can watch it on-line right now!!. Yes it was totally worth it!!

Last week we were excited about watching The Starter Wife and it didn't disappoint. Debra Messing was fabulous as Molly Kagan, the dumped Hollywood Wife. She wasn't scared to go without makeup, and she looked natural and pretty. It was definitely a night-time soap, but a good one. The story skipped along with Molly moving to her friends beach house for the summer after she is dumped by her Hollywood exec husband, and shunned by all, even one of her best friends, Cricket (played by Miranda Otto). Her other best friend, (Judy Davis) has been sent to rehab by her husband, and she spends her days making up memories so her therapist thinks she's making progress and will let her out sooner.

Of course there is a new love interest, Sam, who keeps bumping into Molly accidentally on purpose at the beach.

The ending was a bit of a cliff hanger, with another love interest for Molly seen drinking himself into oblivion and then walking into the ocean.

The cast was great, the story entertaining and interesting, the clothes and Messing's beach hats were fabulous and I'm sad that there are only three episodes left!!

The Starter Wife

In keeping with this weeks chick lit theme, Mia and I will definitely be Tivoing The Starter Wife on USA at 9/8c tonight!

Debra Messing is the leading lady in this four part series:

At first blush, the smart, beautiful, savvy and wryly funny Molly Kagan (Debra Messing), 41, may appear to be leading the charmed life as a prototypical Hollywood "Wife Of" and mother of the adorable six-year-old Jaden, but her life is about to become anything but typical. When her husband and the President of Production of Durango Pictures, Kenny, announces that he is divorcing Molly, he manages to instantly render her a "Starter Wife" and social pariah with a single phone call. Once she realizes that she has been given a do-over, the question for her becomes: what to do now?

The mini series is adapted from the book The Starter Wife by Gigi Levangie Grazer, who was once a starter wife herself, and felt the bitter sting of rejection when she had a separation from her producer husband, Brian Grazer.

The series also stars Judy Davis and Miranda Otto.

I can't wait! Something decent to watch in this horrible TV wasteland they call summer.

Flat Chested Women Unite!

Debra Messing says that NBC tried to force her to wear falsies when Will & Grace first launched!

"When we shot the pilot, I was handed - in the wardrobe - chicken cutlets. They were [supposed to be] boobs. And I wore them. "After the show was picked up, at the first fitting, I said, 'I don't want to wear these. I actually like the idea that she's completely flat-chested, and I think there's comedy in that.
"We shot three episodes, and then I was called to my executive producer's office. They sat me down and said, 'We got a call from the president of NBC, and they said, 'What happened to her boobs?' "I said, 'F- 'em.' They were not happy. ... They said, 'You have to wear them,' and I said, 'No.'" Messing prevailed, and her teeny top became a punch line.

This is a fantastic story. And obviously she was right, her chest was the source of tons of hilarious punch lines. Remember the one where she wore the water filled boobs at the art gallery and they broke and she was spraying water all over everyone? Classic.
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