Saturday, September 9, 2006

IMDb :: Boards :: "Fashion House" (2006): I think the last time we here in the States had a night time fictional program that ran several nights a week was 'Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman' back in the '70s.

Variety.com - Reviews - Desire; Fashion House: the fledgling network's Spanish-style telenovelas initially look like a business model in search of programming.
..the self-contained serials that provide the basis for this fare skew toward older women, as do daytime soaps, which doesn't dovetail with the profile of the Fox station group, MyNetwork's cornerstone.
..each show features lots of pouty femme fatales, as well as a strange gimmick of flashing back to scenes even within that night's installment, ostensibly as a method of padding out the episodes.
"Desire" focuses on two brothers, Louis (Nat Haden) and Alex (Zack Silva), who open a restaurant in New Jersey, only to run afoul of a local mobster when ladies man Louis is caught bedding his daughter. An explosion later and they're off with mom to California, in part because a soap set in Bayonne would rightfully be titled "Ennui." The boys quickly land jobs at an upscale restaurant, where both fall for the owner's daughter, Andrea (Michelle Belegrin), who has mastered the art of walking in slow motion. Andrea is dating the manager, George (Tony Dunster), a gold-digger with bills to pay, and she wants to dump him. Unfortunately, George is prodded along by his cleavage-heaving sister ("CSI: Miami's" Sofia Milos, "Desire's" biggest name), who isn't around much in the first two episodes, which spares the viewer from wondering why she and her brother have such different accents.

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