The one where I really like White Collar.
So far, any positive comments I've seen about White Collar - including my own - have made a point of saying that it's brainless (if extremely pretty) fun. But I begin to wonder exactly what we mean by that.
I mean, it is tv, which is usually not your high water mark for intellectual stimulation, and by virtue of its very premise, White Collar has ( Read more... )
I mean, it is tv, which is usually not your high water mark for intellectual stimulation, and by virtue of its very premise, White Collar has ( Read more... )
Your comparison of Bryce and Chuck is spot-on, of course, but also reminds me of something I meant to add about Chuck but then ultimately left out, because it seemed too tangential. On Chuck (the show) Chuck (the guy) is the one with the Magic Hair. I mean, I'm not saying that Zachary Levi wouldn't be SERIOUSLY attractive with any haircut at all, because obviously he's a good-looking kid! But he's the one who gets the haircut that says 'I'm a sensitive and interesting guy whose hair you can't help but want to muss!' Bryce gets sort of... big but undifferentiated hair. Like, 'I'm a cool guy, but not a guy you should particularly concern yourself with' hair. As it should be. (Though, as a side note, long before White Collar, I still found the scene where Bryce dies unutterably sad. Although, maybe, even then, it was not sadness for Bryce, but sadness at how traumatized it left poor Chuck... hmm).
Anyhoo, one final thought on the almost inexhaustible subject of Matt Bomer's pretty hair? I have seen one glimpse of his earlier, nerdier hair from the Traveler era, and I dig that, too. In fact, I think I find him maximally attractive when he is done up... sorta like Chuck. See here, for example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB2_FQccUe0
OH THE DWEEBY DELICIOUSNESS!!!
If only Bryce Larkin had survived to adapt his style to a Chuck-like geek chic. They could have gotten him some geeky Magic Hair and awesome, adorable, unignorable Clark Kent glasses. And then there would have been one for each of us! ('Cause you claimed Chuck, like, forever ago, LOL. And I respect your priority. I'm that kind of awesome friend).
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I like your theory of Who's Got The Magic Hair. I'm going to have to think about how this applies to my other shows.
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The rule of Magic Hair, if indeed there is one, is intriguing but tricky. For one, it clearly does not apply to women. You can have several women on a show at the same time who all have equally lavish and interesting hair. (Because women aren't even worth seeing if they're not maximally decorative!) Pam on The Office now kind of has markedly Magic Hair, to show how she's been transformed by her love, but I wonder if it would continue to look so Magical if we air-dropped her onto the set of Gossip Girl. Or, I dunno, someplace where all the girls are supposed to be ridiculously pretty and stylish.
For two, I feel that for too long outside of period drama, the possibilities presented by men with Magic Hair have been almost completely over-looked! Back in the nineties - it seems to me - tons of guys' heads ranneth over with floppy jumbles of scrumptious curls! It was a time for hair, and (strangely) Hugh Grant was king! But the men forgot their powers and permitted themselves to be shorn!
Which is why the rediscovery of Magic Hair by certain isolated individuals - Jim Halpert, Chuck Bartowski, Neal Caffrey - (or their peeps), has such an overpowering affect on we wimmin! Because we haven't had time to build up a tolerance! THE HAIR! THE IRRESISTIBLE HAIR!
I would include The Puff on the list of Magic Hair, but... if The Puff was meant to be especially swoonable, it... underestimated my finite but not-to-be-trifled-with powers of clear-headedness.
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Alas, for all his other attributes, Lee never had Magic Hair. (Perhaps it wouldn't have been fair, since he had the Magnificent Arms.) Know who did, though? Final Season Gaius. I never even found him attractive before, and then the hair came out of nowhere and confused me.
I think you're right that we have trouble resisting good hair in men because of its scarcity in these coiffurely impoverished times.
One of my favorite gags on How I Met Your Mother is that after giving Ted rather awful hair for several seasons, they finally gave him a good style and immediately started making jokes about how fussy he is about his hair.
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http://www.youtube.com/user/MuppetsStudio#p/c/6DA21FA8B2B5C671/2/eXeIxtI--uc
Hee!
You should see my kitty's face when they do stars and stripes forever!
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