Jump to content

Models Inc. Discussion Thread


dm.

Recommended Posts

  • Replies 94
  • Created
  • Last Reply
  • 4 weeks later...
  • Members

I'm a bit into episode three and I just realise how little this show makes sense.

Why exactly is Hillary dating that cop again? I realise she saw his luxurious food in the grocery store in the last episode, but she thought he was stalking her!

Edit: at the end of episode three right now - can a lone cop, who is also dating the suspect, just rush into someone's house claiming search warrant? THIS SHOW MAKES NO SENSE.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

Models Inc was too trashy and not in a good funny way. Linda Gray deserved better than this trash.

Cassidy Rae? Brian Gaskill? Emma Samms? Cancellation, that's for sure! With those three non-actors as part of their cast, it was inevitable that Models Inc. would last for just a season.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

The same could've been said for Melrose Place, when you look at their 1st season line-up. Gaskill was written out in the same sense that Amy Locane was written off Melrose.

I think they could've shaped up the show in season 2. Their big problem was that their supporting storylines were weak. On Melrose, you had the Amanda/Billy/Alison as the breakout story, but you had strong "B" stories with Jo & Jake, and Jane/Michael/Kimberly. On MODELS, aside from Monique/Adam/Grayson, there was nothing standing out of real interest. Kylie Travis as Julie could've been a break-out bitch of the series, but her romantic entanglements were blah.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

Yes, Amy Locane was awful too. I never liked her at all. I was glad when she was written out in the first season of Melrose. I'm not surprised that she hasn't acted in recent years before ending up in prison.

As much as I didn't care for Models Inc, it ended with too many cliffhangers. And I remember Carrie Anne Moss once saying that this soap taught her everything NOT to do as an actress!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

Having recently (re)watched the first eight episodes, there's just too many non-characters.

We're supposed to feel for Teresa Hill's character and her porn past, but the storyline seems so shoe-horned in and detached from the rest of the show. Heather Medway could've been a fun soap psycho, but again they just seem to force her into the episodes in a very strange way. We saw her drinking at the office twice - ooh? I barely remember what Cameron Daddo's character even is for. Why Stephanie Romanov is a part of the main cast I don't even get. I get that the producers liked her and brought her back, but in all honesty - if you're going to kill off a character in the first episode don't cast an actress which you obviously like. I don't remember Monique being very exciting as a character either.

And I agree - Kylie Travis should've been the breakout star of the show, not Cassidy Rae. When Linda Gray went to prison for five minutes and Kylie Travis's character took over is showed untapped potential as having her either as Hilary's protege or having her character scheme to take over the firm. They really didn't need Emma Samms as some villianess. They had untapped potential right there waiting to break out.

In a strange way it seems to have a lot of the same problems Paper Dolls had, another show about modelling. Too many characters and detached storylines.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

Monique pops up at the end of the first episode, right? I don't think they killed off Terri and then brought her back as Monique as a last-minute change. That was clearly the plan. Just not a very good plan. On the grand scheme of things, there didn't need to be a lookalike of a dead model. A different actress could've played Terri. Carrie Anne Moss' character was already a basket case regardless of her sister's doppelgänger appearance.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

No, Monique first appeared at the end of episode 8.

Stephanie Romanov was featured in the opening credits throughout the whole series, though, since they showed flashbacks of Teri during the first 8 episodes.

Strangely enough, nobody except Carrie was outraged by Monique's arrival and nobody ever questioned her real identity. They all seemed to happily accept that she was Teri's doppelgänger.

That said, i liked SR as Monique and she was the most stable and relatable character on this show.

(I have only watched the show dubbed in German so I cannot really judge SR's acting abilities.)

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

Wow, I totally forgot that. Guess I should rewatch!

I agree, she was one of the few relatable ladies. Teresa Hill... good grief, she seemed half-way decent surrounded by other subpar performers here, but on GL, her true talent, or lack thereof, was truly seen.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 1 year later...

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.



  • Recent Posts

    • Not having watched AMC was one of the reasons I hesitated to make the comparison, tbf. It's odd--I feel like I could argue Cassie, Olivia, Harley and Dinah suffocated the show along with Reva the last five years.
    • Laurie and Lance accompany Leslie to her Denver concert and she relies me on Lance for support.Unbeknownst to Leslie, Brad has had the operator make a special connection to the concert hall so he can hear her concert. The Maestro, realizing Leslie’s emotional torment over her failing marriage, tries to persuade her to tell Brad about the baby, and when she refuses, he writes a letter to Brad betraying Leslie’s confidence. After another fight with her mother about how learning about her parentage has upset her life, Laurie confides to Leslie that she feels cut off, outside. Stuart overhears this conversation, and Leslie has to tell him the whole story. She tries to explain fairly how Jennifer had left Stuart and actually only spent one night with Bruce, and faced the truth about Laurie only when she was forced to. Stuart is livid over this |betrayal and wants to confront his wife ‘now, but her doctor calls. Her one-year mastectomy checkup was fine, but he’s discovered irregularities in her cardiogram and doesn’t want her under any stress until further tests can be made. Stuart assures Leslie he won’t tell her mother he knows about Laurie until he can do it calmly, and doesn’t tell his daughter about the cardiogram.  When Chris continues to receive obscene calls, Snapper goes straight to the Beckers’. Ron insists he was home with Nancy, and she corroborates this. When she steps between an advancing Snapper and her husband, screaming, “We don’t have a telephone. He couldn't have called Chris,” Snapper finally has to believe her, and he leaves. But moments later Karen tells Nancy that Daddy went out while Mommy was in the shower. Ron insists it was just a few moments, for cigarettes. Nancy lets it pass, but the next morning finds a whole carton of cigarettes in a drawer  and asks why he went out. Ron coldly tells her she’d  better pull herself together, she’s letting this thing with Chris make her a little insane. Nancy ponders telling Chris but decides that all Chris would do is  badmouth Ron again, and she and Karen have no one but Ron and can’t leave him. When a telephone-installation man arrives with their new phone, Nancy asks him not to put it in. But Ron arrives and orders the installation made, telling Nancy she’s trying to run his life, as his mother did. When Nancy tries to call Chris, Ron frighteningly tells Nancy he’s done  everything they said he did, but it’s all her fault, as she never gave him what he needed. When he informs her he’s taking Karen away from her before she can ruin her, Nancy collapses in a catatonic state. Ron then calmly calls the hospital and requests help for his wife, “Fran Jackson,” who has had a breakdown.  Laurie, seeing the extent to which Vanessa will go to keep Lance to herself, warns Lance that his mother’s possessive feelings are unhealthy. Lance suggests Vanessa will consider Leslie a threat also when he learns that Les and Brad are divorcing and things will get easier. As soon as the hospital attendants leave with Nancy, Ron dials Legal Aid and has Karen tell Chris she’s all alone. Stopping only to leave a message for Snapper about where she’s going, Chris rushes to the Beckers’ apartment, only to realize that Ron’s tricked her. Ron sends Karen out of the room and, after expressing his hatred for all women, tells Chris he’s going to prove to her he’s a man. But Karen wanders back in as he has Chris pinned to the wall, and Ron’s mind snaps when he realizes his daughter has seen his perverted side. After smashing the wall mirror, he runs out, and Greg, terrified at learning where Chris is, arrives to find her comforting Karen. Chris takes Karen home, and after several days of fruitless searching for Nancy, she applies for temporary guardianship of Karen. Peggy and Jack set a New Years Eve wedding date, but Stuart is terribly upset to realize how irrational and incomplete Peggy’s plans are. When she suddenly makes all pertinent decisions in the space of a half-hour, Stuart tells Jack this doesn’t indicate certainty, but rather proves his point—she’s just trying to convince herself that the rape didn’t affect hers and it did. A chance remark by Stuart shocks Laurie into realizing he knows she’s not his natural daughter. When she hysterically screams out her alienation and her innate feeling that she was always 'different' he assures her with tears in his eyes that since they really love each other sincerely, it makes no difference; she’ll always be his daughter. Stuart explains that Jen still doesn’t know he has learned the truth, and he would like it to continue that way. In helping Brad pay his bills, Laurie finds Maestro Fausch’s letter and tells Brad that Leslie is pregnant. Ironically, to get to him with this news, she had to get |away from Leslie, and used a meeting with Lance as an excuse. When ‘Lance arrives soon after, he’s angry that Laurie lied, and she later has to explain that she has been helping Brad. Understanding her motives, — Lance agrees that she should continue to press him to |reconcile with Leslie. Brad, however, still won’t reconsider—in fact, the news makes him even more resolute. But Vanessa has had Laurie followed, and hits Leslie with a double blow. She gives her the report saying this proves her sister is involved with her husband, and then assures Leslie that Lance loves her, — not Laurie. Badly confused and hurt, Leslie lashes out by kissing Lance while he sits with her at the piano. Leslie then waits at the apartment for Laurie, and when she arrives, she bitterly accuses her of having an affair with Brad. Laurie angrily assures Leslie she  was with Brad with Lance’s full knowledge and that Leslie’s anger means she still loves Brad. She then explains to Leslie that Brad left her because he’s blind. In shock, Leslie rushes home to confront Brad, furiously berating him for treating her like a child who cannot decide for herself. But Brad, even with Leslie now aware of the situation, refuses to reconcile with her. When Leslie tells Laurie how unreasonable Brad has been, Laurie suggests that Leslie stop seeing everything from her own angle only. 
    • In regards to the Reva vs Erica discussions... I think there was one main difference between the two characters.... Erica never took over/ate up airtime on All My Children.  While she was a larger than life character, she never took over the show and there were times she was even supporting and not the lead.... while Reva basically suffocated Guiding Light in the later years with her presence.
    • That was such a missed opportunity, especially with May sweeps.  And, it would’ve been a much better story for Naomi/Jacob than whatever’s going on with June 
    • https://www.hulu.com/hub/tv/collections/9979 Amazed! But loving it. What this shows is GH Hulu out of top 15, GH is #2 & this was Saturday. Are we happy campers? Yes, at least for the moment, you bet we are.
    • I forget his name but Tori Spelling and Jennie Garth had the EP on after they didn't understand the 60s flashback episode due to the lack of original music. He felt that was one of his strongest episodes so he came on to explain to them just how much the music changes hurt the series. Basically, they only allowed him to pick a selection of episodes he felt the music was vital and other than that they didn't bother to save the music.  They kept music for prom and things like the Color Me Badd episode and for most of the musical acts but any music you loved from the opening of the show or just music played in random scenes was cut.  I know there are also some scenes cut but I don't know too much about that. The most glaring one was Clare's final scene being cut which is obviously a huge problem for a character who'd been around for so long. Overall I was able to enjoy my rewatch using the DVDs but without all of the original music it isn't nearly as good a show.
    • Too many returns, that's when you know a show has run out of ideas and doesn't care anymore.  Zoe annoyed the sh!t out of me most times, but the Kat/Zoe storyline will always be iconic and close to my heart (that's the era I first started following the show in near real-time), and probably the only storyline in 21st century EastEnders that had long-term value for the characters involved during their initial run together. However, after all this time and the writing choice that Zoe never wants to see Kat again, I think that ship has sailed and I don't know that it makes sense to revisit it at this point. 
    • Former EastEnders star Michelle Ryan is reprising her role as Zoe Slater on the BBC soap following an absence of over 20 years.  It’s been reported that Zoe will return to Albert Square later this year and that she’ll take centre stage in a dramatic new storyline involving her family.  The news comes amidst news of other big returns, which include Max Branning (Jake Wood), Tanya Cross (Jo Joyner), Shirley Carter (Linda Henry) and Ben Mitchell (Max Bowden), who will also be back in Walford later in the year.
    • I actually love the new fashion.
    • Admittedly, I was a latecomer to ATWT (first becoming a regular viewer in 2000). But I really liked KMH's Emily. I thought she was a very specific kind of neurotic professional character, and I loved her prickly relationship with MM's Susan. I will say I don't think the show did her any favors after Hal died, stranding her in storylines with several of the show's dullest characters: nu-Paul, nu-Meg, and nu-Dusty. I actually quite liked one of her last major storylines, when she discovered she had a grown-up biological son with Larry named Hunter. But then Hunter just sort of disappeared, and the story fizzled out, which was pretty typical of the late Goutman years. 
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

By using this site, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy