Pretty Little Liars
So I was watching this show - I'm not sure what network it's on, but here they're showing it on MuchMusic. It's not the kind of show I would generally recommend to other people. And I still wouldn't, despite the story I'm about to tell. It's about a group of exceptionally pretty teenage girls with amazing clothes and immaculately-groomed hair, a dead frenemy and scandalous secrets. It's summer filler, so although I would love for it to get picked up, these shows never seem to.
But there was one moment of exceptional versimilitude:
One of the pretty little girls (the blonde one - which is the only way I can tell her apart, as the rest of the gang are brunette except the dead girl) is having supper with her mom (Sydney from Melrose Place, so you just know she's going to be crazy). It looks like a steamed vegetable mix - you know, the kind you buy in frozen packages that anorexic women (like all the women on this show) probably pretend is a real meal. And they're talking about mother-daughter stuff, the kind of heart-to-heart you never really have in real life but teenagers pretend they wish they could have but would probably just say 'whatever' and run away to their rooms if they really had to talk about it with their moms.
And the little blonde girl is picking through her vegetables, setting aside one particular item (I couldn't tell what - maybe water chestnuts? or mushrooms?) that she didn't like. Just like I would have done at her age. And no one made a big deal of it; her mom didn't say 'eat your mushrooms' or anything; it was just something this girl did, had probably always done, and always would do. And they casually talked about 'the big issues' as she pretended to eat her supper and avoided those darned mushrooms.
It was kind of neat.
But there was one moment of exceptional versimilitude:
One of the pretty little girls (the blonde one - which is the only way I can tell her apart, as the rest of the gang are brunette except the dead girl) is having supper with her mom (Sydney from Melrose Place, so you just know she's going to be crazy). It looks like a steamed vegetable mix - you know, the kind you buy in frozen packages that anorexic women (like all the women on this show) probably pretend is a real meal. And they're talking about mother-daughter stuff, the kind of heart-to-heart you never really have in real life but teenagers pretend they wish they could have but would probably just say 'whatever' and run away to their rooms if they really had to talk about it with their moms.
And the little blonde girl is picking through her vegetables, setting aside one particular item (I couldn't tell what - maybe water chestnuts? or mushrooms?) that she didn't like. Just like I would have done at her age. And no one made a big deal of it; her mom didn't say 'eat your mushrooms' or anything; it was just something this girl did, had probably always done, and always would do. And they casually talked about 'the big issues' as she pretended to eat her supper and avoided those darned mushrooms.
It was kind of neat.