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The Beautiful Life: Season 1
  • Network: The CW
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 16, 2009
  • Season #: 1
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41 out of 100

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  • 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): Drama

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 13
  3. Negative: 4 out of 13
  1. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Glenn Garvin
    70
    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.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    60
    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.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Ginia Bellafante
    30
    "Inside the Mind of Mischa Barton" would have been a much better bet than The Beautiful Life.

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  1. Daniel
    10
    This show is very well put together. It obviously failed due to poor advertisement and not because there was anything wrong with it.
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  2. ReneeS.
    10
    Come on People... Critics are so old seriously. Should CW care what the critics say who look for absolute perfection or the rest of the world who actually enjoy it.… Expand
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  3. Kristen
    3
    I have to agree with the reviews. Especially being a native NY'er. It's definitely no GIA, not even close. I switched to the news for something more interesting. If you can imagine that.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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