“TheCity” Season 1: Part 2: Episode 8: “If You want Something Done Right…”

This week, Whitney and Roxy leave the boys behind to return their focus to work.  Let’s recap.

Fresh off Kelly telling Whitney she needed to get moving on her clothing line and finish her sketches, Whitney has her whole collection completed.  The samples have even arrived.  The magic of television.  The next step: a look book.  Kelly names a million things that need to be done but says People’s Rev will take care of most of it, Whit just needs to focus on the casting.  Whitney surmises that she can get Roxy on the casting.  “She’s never done a casting”, Kelly aka the voice of reason warns.  Whitney says maybe it should be Roxy’s first.  “You need to put your best foot forward because if you don’t the other one doesn’t get to follow”, Kelly again warns.

Fast forward to the casting.  Whitney has on an amazing blue sleeveless top with a blue skirt that we must source later, while Roxy has on a cute green dress.  Roxy’s job was to call the models to the shoot, but the one’s she chose were all wrong for Whitney’s fairytale look.  Kelly suggests that if Roxy wants to be “Superflying Ranger in Redemption” she needs to pull some magic because Whitney put herself on the line for Roxy.  She needs some Fairtytale Tea Party girls, not Gothic Nightmares.

Over at ELLE headquarters, Erin tells Joe that they have his Fall A to Zee column ready, but there’s still a ton of things that need to be done and they need help.  Guess who Joe recommends?  Olivia of course.  Erin laughs and says of all the people here you choose Olivia?  Translation: I’m sick of this fake camera and fake show and I wanna go back to doing my real job with real people.  Nonetheless, Erin’s not the boss so she really has no say in this.

Next, Roxy transforms in the Superflying Ranger in Redemption and brings some magical girls into casting.  They have fresh faces perfect for Whitney’s Fairytale la la land theme.  Whitney is very pleased.

Back at ELLE.  Can Olivia become a Superfly Redeemer?  Erin doesn’t think so.  She gives her the task for the A to Zee job.  It’s a “He said, She said” theme.  Olivia has to pull two looks that a guy would want to see his girl in and two that the girl would want to wear.  Olivia actually takes notes, but Erin is still condescending the whole time.  Olivia tells Erin not to stress; Erin says snarkily that the fact that Olivia is not concerned worries her.  We understand Erin’s frustration, but her remarks are crossing over from frustrated supervisor to rude snark.

After the break, we’re finally at Whitney’s Look Book Photo Shoot.  Roxy is hands on as always.  She seems to think she’s her father, Ken Olin, for a moment as she totally tries to take over the shoot and direct the models.  The shoot is all about the light and airy, pretty and natural.  There’s cakes, cupcakes, and champagne.  Roxy aka the Idea Machine is spewing off ideas a mile a minute.  One is to have the model scream.  Not sure what that has to do with a Fairytale Photo Shoot, neither does Whitney.  She is finally able to tell Roxy no.  Then Roxy suggests that the models have a cake fight.  Novel idea if this wasn’t a photo shoot for clothing, which means you can’t have the clothing ruined or covered in food.  With this, Kelly has to pull the Idea Machine to the side and ask her to press stop, after all this is Whitney’s shoot.

Roxy can’t press stop, but presses pause.  But as soon as she gets another opportunity, she dances to the beat of her own drum.  No one will stop Roxy from moving forward with this one.  She’s been shut down twice but will not be denied thrice.  She suggests one last shot of popping champagne.  Kelly says not to do it because champagne will go all over the place.  “Kill me for being young and spontaneous,” Roxy says.  Maybe that’s not such a bad idea after this debacle.  The model does pop the champagne and it does spill all over her.  Whitney just walks away in dismay.

If we could combine Whitney and Roxy into one person, they’d be the perfect business person.  Whitney is just not assertive enough and Roxy lacks discretion. If they met somewhere in the middle, we’d hire them!  Whitney is upset for a half a second, then Roxy makes her forget all about it.  Roxy throws some food at her, and they have a food fight and some laughs.

Then Olivia meets up with Bryne, an intern at ELLE, to collect the four looks for A to Zee.  Bryne pulls a dress but Olivia “is only concerned that it hugs in the wrong area”.  “I couldn’t pull it off, I don’t know about everyone else,” Olivia boasts.  Now, we all know Olivia has impeccable fashion taste, but the bragging makes her a prime target for critiques.  She doesn’t have the world’s best body where she can pull of anything, so let’s not brag as such.  Then Olivia asks Bryne if a pair of pants are skinny enough for the skinny look they needed.  Bryne says no and Olivia dances to the beat of her own drum and says “well, I like it” so she uses it.  Bottom line: don’t ask if you don’t plan to listen.

It looks like Olivia’s dance was off beat once again, because Erin hated her pulls.  No surprise.  Erin thinks the size 16 model’s size 14 black dress is too small.  In fact, all the sizes are off.  Olivia doesn’t care.  “It’s fine”, is her response to everything.  How is it fine when the model looks like she’s wearing her little sister’s clothing?  Olivia tries to justify her incompetence by saying that she went to two stores and they didn’t have the sizes.  So she should’ve went to a third store, Erin told her.  Olivia asks Erin if she would talk to Joe likes she talks to her.  That’s so irrelevant because Olivia is not Joe, nor is she on Joe’s level.  Totally illogical comparison. These two are a total mess.  We don’t know whose worse anymore.

Back at the Revolution and Roxy has already gotten the champagne dress dry cleaned.  Roxy may make a mess, but she knows how to clean it up.  Kelly tells Whitney the look book is ready. Roxy is excited and starts to get out of her seat, before Kelly says she’s doing it with Whitney alone first.  Roxy can see it later.  The looks turned out great, but Roxy did not.  Kelly says Whitney needs to rethink Roxy’s involvement in her career (again) because it seems like Roxy wants to learn the hard way.  Regardless of what you tell her, she’ll do what she wants to.  “I don’t think that’s true though”, Whitney says.  Looks like Whitney is the one who wants to learn the hard way.

Photo credits: MTV