The Ex List“Protect and Serve”
Original Airdate: Oct 17, 2008
Shannon – TwoCents Staff Writer
Shannon@thetwocentscorp.com
This week Bella’s hanging with the wrong crowd, namely, her ex-boyfriend, Ronnie. Back in 1991 he was a badass and she was all over him like white on rice. Now, Ronnie’s a cop and Bella’s got a thing for a man in blue.
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Original Airdate: Oct 17, 2008
Shannon – TwoCents Staff Writer
Shannon@thetwocentscorp.com
This week Bella’s hanging with the wrong crowd, namely, her ex-boyfriend, Ronnie. Back in 1991 he was a badass and she was all over him like white on rice. Now, Ronnie’s a cop and Bella’s got a thing for a man in blue.
Someone broke into Bella’s apartment through the kitchen window screen and stole her iPod, facial scrub, watch and wine. Wow, cheap thieves. When Bella calls the cop, turns out the one who shows up is Ronnie. They flirt and she ring-checks him but he’s single and ready to mingle.
She tells Daphne about him and Daphne spills the beans to their dad. Turns out, Dad never liked Ronnie much. Go figure.
Daphne and Bella go looking for Ronnie at all the cop hot spots when the finally find him at a local eat-in meat market. Huh, Sopranos, much? Foreshadowing, much? They watch Ronnie beat up a known perp and Bella gets turned on by it. Daphne slips Bella’s number to Ronnie’s cop partner.
Bella’s sitting at home, brushing her dog when Ronnie calls to ask her to go out. Just as she gets up to change out of her sweats, her Dad shows up to change the locks.
Dad’s not enthused by Ronnie and Bella says that high school was over a decade ago and couldn’t Ronnie have changed. Dad says no. Dad is concerned about Bella seeing Ronnie as well as the locks on the windows, so he generously offers to sleep on Bella’s couch until the window locks have been changed.
Ronnie calls Bella after Dad’s asleep and she sneaks out of the house, just like she did when she was a teenager. She snuck out of her own apartment. That’s adult.
They have a late night date and end up back at their old make out spot. They talk about Ronnie’s past and then they make out until Dad’s incessant calling breaks them up and Ronnie gets a work call because he’s still on duty.
Ronnie told Bella the psychic is a con artist who sells knock off purses so Bella’s not sure of the whole prediction thing. Bella goes back to the psychic, during her snooping finds a box of Prada handbags. She gets an impromptu reading. Marina sees a “wave” in the city and that Ronnie’s a part of it.
Bella goes with Ronnie to a barbecue…in Palm Springs. They fly there on a private plane owned by a friend of Ronnie’s. He’s also talked to Bella’s landlord and convinced him not to raise the rent. Not to mention, the handy knack of getting reservations to exclusive restaurants. See a trend, y’all? Is Ronnie also Italian?
Auggie doesn’t like Ronnie either and convinces Bella’s dad to pretend like he loves Ronnie to get Bella to not date him. Bella’s not buying it.
Bella is not comfortable with Ronnie beating up an annoying neighbor and breaks up with him. He walks out like it ain’t no thang.
And that’s all it took to wrap up the episode. Honestly, I didn’t like it at all. It wasn’t all that interesting and frankly, I saw the whole bully/mafia persona coming from a mile away. It’s really unfortunate because I really believe this show has potential, it’s just not hitting the right mark. If they took out all the extraneous stuff with the roommate friends this show could be a cute half hour sitcom. It’s a lot of filler and not a lot of substance.
What did you all think? Am I the only one watching this show? Please tell me someone else is sitting through this too. Let me know in the comments? Please?
Oh, and I forgot to mention this in my recap(the picture up there reminded me): Bella is supposed to be 33, right? Her skirts...WAY too short. Looking at that photo, I can almost tell if she has a good bikini waxer.
ReplyDeleteDon't get me wrong, Elizabeth Reaser is gorgeous and obviously in great shape, but the costumer could do a better job of making her look like a respectable mature woman, rather than trying to make her look like she's been barhopping with her sorority sisters.
Totally. The whole sitcom-extraneous friend crap. And I realize she's a California surfer "girl" but the nakedness is a bit distracting and out of character for someone thinking about the rest of her life.
ReplyDeleteIt is a cute show though