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How to Survive Another Summer of Mid TV
Gorgeous gowns, new Housewives, and some quality drama (really!) — maybe things aren’t so bleak after all?
Some of the best cities — Potomac, Orange County, New York — took a couple seasons to find their stride, and it’s not like Dubai has nothing to recommend itself: Caroline Stanbury, the standout of Ladies of London, is bitchy royalty, while Chanel Ayan, a couture-obsessed, quick-witted pot stirrer, is positioning herself to become one of the best to play the game. That said, you’re going to have to deal with the surreality of watching actors play personalities who still regularly feature in the NBA: Laurence Fishburne is then-Clippers head coach Doc Rivers (he’s now with the Milwaukee Bucks), and he’s rounded out by an assortment of relative unknowns interpreting players from that Clippers era, including Chris Paul, JJ Redick, and DeAndre Jordan. These are minor boom times for shows featuring Westerners bopping around Japan (see Shōgun, Tokyo Vice, the opening scene of Sugar, last year’s Drops of God), and come July, Rashida Jones will further the trend as an expat named Suzie grieving the loss of her husband and young child due to a plane crash.
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