The Beautiful Life: Season 1

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The CW | CW | Season Premiere Date: September 16, 2009

Starring: Elle Macpherson, Mischa Barton, Sara Paxton

Summary: The fictional look at the lives of models features Mischa Barton and supermodel Elle Macpherson. Real-life designers, models, and others from the fashion world (Nina Garcia of Marie Claire and Project Runway) are scheduled to make cameos.

Genre(s): Comedy, Drama

Season 1 Episodes

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tim Goodman

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

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Daniel

Dec 22, 2009

This show is very well put together. It obviously failed due to poor advertisement and not because there was anything wrong with it.