The Beautiful Life

Name: The Beautiful Life
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: September 16, 2009
Rating: 40
Cast: Elle Macpherson, Mischa Barton, Sara Paxton, Corbin Bleu, Ashley Madekwe

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The CW | CW | Release Date: September 16, 2009

Starring: Elle Macpherson, Mischa Barton, Sara Paxton, Corbin Bleu, Ashley Madekwe, Nico Tortorella, Dusan Dukic, Benjamin Hollingsworth

Summary: Swingtown's creator and showrunner Mike Kelley and Carol Barbee develop a primetime soap that will follow the privileged lives of male and female models residing in New York City.

The Last House On The Left's Sara Paxton and The Cutting Edge 3's Ben Hollingsworth play the lead roles in the soap as Raina Marinelli, an up-and-coming modelSwingtown's creator and showrunner Mike Kelley and Carol Barbee develop a primetime soap that will follow the privileged lives of male and female models residing in New York City.

The Last House On The Left's Sara Paxton and The Cutting Edge 3's Ben Hollingsworth play the lead roles in the soap as Raina Marinelli, an up-and-coming model billed as "the next Heidi Klum" and Chris Andrews, an innocent town's boy.

High School Musical's Corbin Bleu, The OC's Mischa Barton, Secret Diary of a Call Girl's Ashley Madekwe, Nico Tortorella and real life model Elle MacPherson round out the main cast of The Beautiful Life: TBL.

The Beautiful Life: TBL was inspired by the real life experiences of model-turned-writer Adam Giaudrone. The series will be produced by Ashton Kutcher.… Expand

Genre(s): Comedy, Drama

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S1:E5. The Beautiful Campaign
Air Date: December 22, 2009
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S1:E4. The Beautiful Triangle
Air Date: unknown
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S1:E3. The Beautiful Lie
Air Date: September 30, 2009

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Glenn Garvin

Season 1 Review: The Beautiful Life, in short, is hopelessly trashy melodrama about hopelessly trashy people. But Paxton, as a tougher-than-she-looks kid with a dark past, and Hollingsworth, as a callow Iowa farmboy trying to make it in the big city, are so unexpectedly affecting that you may find yourself sucked into the show against your will. Read full review

Paige Wiser

Season 1 Review: Most of the characters are about as distinctive as mannequins. You won't mind, though, because they're awfully nice to look at. But the disgraced supermodel is played by Mischa Barton, and this is where the show may achieve inadvertent poignancy. Read full review

Robert Lloyd

Season 1 Review: The series is not so different from, or significantly worse--or better--than the network's other two season premieres, "Melrose Place" and "The Vampire Diaries," which also affix stock characters, played mostly by good-looking young folk, to standard plot lines sexed up with pop songs and different flavors of visual glamour. Because they do not aim particularly high, they pretty much hit what they aim at. Read full review

Ellen Gray

Season 1 Review: A model-thin depiction of the glamorous and not-so-glamorous lives of fashion mannequins that was co-created by Ashton Kutcher. Read full review

Brian Lowry

Season 1 Review: The cast and writing (the showrunner is Mike Kelley, coming off CBS' vastly superior "Swingtown") are efficient enough, but nothing really pops--other than perhaps the desire to run out and eat a nice, heavy, carbo-laden meal. Read full review

Matthew Gilbert

Season 1 Review: The pilot is clearly half-baked. Whether that’s due to Barton or deeper creative problems is unclear. Read full review

Tim Goodman

Season 1 Review: Speaking from outside the target demo but from long-suffering experience watching bad television, go with "unwatchable." Read full review

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: September 16, 2009
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  S1:E5. The Beautiful Campaign
  Air Date: December 22, 2009
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  S1:E4. The Beautiful Triangle
  Air Date: unknown
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  S1:E3. The Beautiful Lie
  Air Date: September 30, 2009
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  S1:E2. The Beautiful Aftermath
  Air Date: September 23, 2009
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  S1:E1. Pilot
  Air Date: September 16, 2009