Quarterlife - Anyone Watch the Premiere?

The show about the quarterlife crisis. Did anyone watch it either online or on TV?

I really enjoyed it but I too am going through a quarterlife crisis. I can, however see others getting annoyed with the main girl. And the way she screwed her friends was wrong, but clearly necessary to set up the relationships and dynamics that will make up the show. I found her less annoying as the hour went by, though her meek pronouncement at the staff meeting bugged the heck out of me.

The biggest problem I truly see with the show is that I wonder if this was the cast used for the original pitch in 2005 to the networks during Pilot season. I would guess not. I think this was cast with intentions of the internet, and that might affect its mainstream appeal. When Bree Turner is the most recognizable name (I think), that's says it all.

If anyone remembers a show in the late 90s on ABC called Wasteland, this reminds me of that, but with better writing. But Wasteland had a more known and visually appealing cast (which included Brad Rowe, Rebecca Gayheart, and Sasha Alexander). If they took the writing of this and some of that cast, this would have gotten better ratings. Also, the lighting on the show screams low budget. I don't mind it, but others might.


UPDATE: NBC has already jumped ship and bailed on this show due to the low ratings. Don't think that was appropriate or necessary. When you don't advertise a show, it's already aired online, and had some sort of premiere on MTV, I wouldn't expect a blockbuster ratings night. But, not even airing a second episode doesn't allow for the correction of your poor advertising efforts to allow for word of mouth and other buzz to spread to get a ratings bump. Plus, I question the accuracy of the ratings, I wouldn't say your typical Nielsen family covers everyone who would watch this show. NBC is (currently) planning to air the remaining episodes on Bravo.

Project Runway - Who Will Win This Season?

Will it be Chris, Rami, Christian or Jillian? I don't think we can predict who will win. They tend to actually pick off of what is shown during Fashion Week since the 3 they put forward tend to be ones they think are talented enough to do something special in design.

I have purposely avoided watching their shows, so I am saying this without knowing how the lines were. The reason I say it's hard to predict, is that if you remember, in Season 2, Daniel V was the young innovative designer (like Christian and was also a judge favorite - I think he won more often than Christian), who we all expected an amazing show from, and it fell flat. It was his to lose, and he lost it. I'm not saying Christian (or anyone else) won't deliver, but after Daniel V's showing, I'm not totally certain that we can go off of what we have seen from the show because something seems to happen in those 2 months. We can also be surprised in a good way at the Fashion Week shows. As much as I loved Jay McCarroll during Season 1, I didn't know his line was going to be that fantastic, it was just a great surprise.

I will say, that for the first time, I won't be mad that any of the 4 win. My least favorite of the final group is Jillian, but I certainly don't hate her, just find her mildly annoying and whiny at times. But, I wouldn't be devastated if she won, unlike in years past, when there was someone who I just hated and didn't want to win. I'm definitely looking forward to seeing four great lines that makes the final decision of who wins Project Runway very difficult.