Hidden Fugs

Oh, poor Girl Who Is On Hidden Palms as the Joey Potter character, I can not cosign those boots with that dress:

I actually kind of like the dress -- casual, but not messy! etc! -- despite the fact that this color and texture of fabric often puts me in the mind of cotton jersey tee shirt sheets. Which is actually not a complaint.  God knows I would wear nothing but clothing fashioned from sheets if it were socially acceptable. But white pleather boots really only work if you are a go-go dancer or a stripper whose professional persona falls into the Naughty Nurse category.

Maybe this moderately inept pairing is a subtle nod to how totally inept Hidden Palms, sadly, is. I'm sorry, Show Featuring People Who Were Better on The OC.  I wanted to enjoy you. And yet, you are too preposterous, even for me, a girl who watches One Tree Hill (a show which, this season alone, has featured the aftermath of a secret brother-on-brother-murder; a boy posing as a long lost sibling who turns out to be a stalker/kidnapper/nutcase; three people potentially drowning [in a limo which careened off a bridge after a wedding] who are saved [maybe] by the ghost of the dead guy; the dead guy visiting Chad Michael Murray from beyond while CMM was in a coma that happened after he neglected to take his heart medicine so that he could help his half-brother shave points in a basketball game at the behest of Rick Fox who then ran down the half-brother's pregnant wife with a car and wrapped said car around a tree; four potential and two actual pregnancies; a sub-plot involving Stephen Colletti and a club full of virgins; the brother-murderer setting his victim's grave on fire accidentally;  a girl stamping her rival's prom dress with the word "whore" so that it would show up under the prom's blacklights [they made up after getting locked in the basement together by the stalker/kidnapper/nutcase and having to destroy him together using cheerleading moves]; a nerd getting thrown into and making friends in prison, from which he was picked up by five other characters who hitched a ride to Texas, where he was being jailed, on Tyler Hilton's tour bus; and several girl-on-girl punching incidents).  I've heard Hidden Palms improves after the pilot, and as the highlight of the pilot involved a girl wailing like a banshee while running through the sprinklers, I certainly hope so -- this poor child needs the shoe budget.