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After an egregious, abhorrent one week absence, Kell On Earth returned to the airwaves Monday night, and while FUCKING FASHION WEEK is now over, the stress remains high and intense at the offices of People's Revolution. This latest episode focused on the trials and tribulations of Stephanie Skinner, who seemed to be crumbling under the weight of Steph Vorhees' abandoned responsibilities. And let me tell you something: poor Skinner does not take stress well. Her eyes become sunken, her face goes pale, and she more or less looks like death. You know, like Kelly (who amusingly admitted that she is not the most photogenic person in the Western World).
Anyway, as Stephanie tried to take on every task herself, her life was made imminently more difficult by the two-headed beast that is Robily (or Emilyn?). The two senior staff members repeatedly demanded more and more from wee Skinner, who admittedly seems to be fairly unskilled in the delegation and prioritization department. As you can imagine, this led to a one way ticket on the meltdown express, especially after Emily -- the most cutting and nasty of the group -- asked for some much needed reports. Skinner announced that she didn't have them quite ready, and then the next thing we knew, both women were yelling at each other, with Skinner ultimately trotting out of the office to sob in the street. To be fair to Emily, I wouldn't say Stephanie's methods of communication are always the wisest. I get the sense that she's trying to hold her own in this office of power bitches, but her responses to her superiors' questions often come off as defensive and bratty, not self-possessed and confident. It's enough to make a supervisor go batty. Plus, I'm not sure they want to keep hearing about how she's doing the work of umpteen people.
But then again, Stephanie is doing the work of umpteen people, and as far as we can tell, the Andrews are doing nothing but staring at their computers and dreaming about getting laid. Part of me feels like Stephanie doesn't want to delegate her work in an effort to be something of a martyr, and then another part of me wonders if maybe she's just wary of letting someone like Andrew Serrano touch anything vaguely important, lest he spill a bottle of bronzer or lube over an important document.
With the mania of fashion week (or rather, FUCKING FASHION WEEK) over at Kell On Earth, one would think things would calm down at the offices of People's Revolution, but as last night's episode showed us, there's still plenty of wonderful chaos swirling about at any given time of the day. Yes, there were tears and heartache in spades as not one, but two people got fired over the course of the hour. Well, actually, three people got the axe. Although, one of them sort of quit amidst the firing. It's hard to say. The point is, people lost their jobs, and there was much bitchery to go along with it.
I have been bubbling with anticipation for tonight as Bravo airs yet another episode of my new favorite show, Kell On Earth. The series has been everything I could dream of, and last week in Club Med, I forced both my parents to watch it. Even though they might not have enjoyed it per se, they did discuss Kelly and her office quite a bit over the next two or three days, and I'm pretty sure my mom is going to record it on her Tivo now, which is impressive being that my mom's normal reaction to reality tv is "Ben, this is the lowest of the low."
Yes, getting my parents on board with Kelly Cutrone was a very exciting development for me, but even more thrilling was that over the weekend, Ms. Cutrone herself retweeted on of my tweets! This means only one thing: you and all your friends should be following me on Twitter. #shameless
Anyway, before I alternately gush and brag too much, here are some preview clips for tonight's new episode. Above, Kelly kicks some lady out of her seat at a fashion show. It's nothing that hasn't already been shown a million times in promos all week, but hey, it's still funny. After the jump, two more vids. One features that mousy, pill-pushing assistant (whose name I neither remember nor care to learn) having a total breakdown, causing the bronzer to flow off his face. The other clip hints at the beginning of a major People's Revolution scandal as one of the previously unseen assistants winds up tied to an alcohol theft at one of the shows. HMMMMM...
After last week's awesome series premiere, Kell On Earth returns tonight with a whole new hour of footage that will hopefully feature Kelly Cutrone screaming at every mortal soul around her. If the preview clips are any indication, she'll certainly be flipping her shit at least once or twice tonight, especially when the interns en masse screw up a vital gift bag project. The video above shows the lead up to what will surely be a withering attack, but sadly, it cuts away before we can see Kelly truly lay into the newbies.
After the jump are two more clips. One features a model collapsing off camera, and the other shows crowd control in the wake of last week's list mishaps getting out of hand. My excitement knows no bounds!
At long last, Kelly Cutrone's new Bravo series Kell On Earth premiered last night, and it was pretty much everything I could have wanted. The entire episode was one big tea kettle of stress, slowly bubbling away over the course of sixty minutes until finally the pressure was too great, leading Kelly to flip her shit in one of her most seething blow-ups I'd ever seen (if you're still following the metaphor, that was the moment that the teapot began to whistle). Even better, I got the distinct impression that this explosion was just a little nothing on the Kelly scale. Oh, I can only imagine what treats will be in store for us over the course of the season.
