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- 2010
- The CW
- 2010
- The CW
Summary Fashion expert Louise Roe helps Plain Janes prepare for dates with their crushes. They will be given a total makeover and their new identities will be revealed at the end of each episode on their dates.
- 2010
- The CW
- 2010
- The CW
Plain Jane
Season 1 Premiere: Jul 28, 2010
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Summary Fashion expert Louise Roe helps Plain Janes prepare for dates with their crushes. They will be given a total makeover and their new identities will be revealed at the end of each episode on their dates.
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
52
33% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
44% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
22% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
52
33% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
44% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
22% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
This makeover series isn't breaking any new ground: A wallflower, repotted and pruned, blooms overnight into an assured woman willing to tackle her dream date. The real asset here is its charming British host, style adviser Louise Roe.
Although generating the sort of minor social revolution that the five hosts of "Queer Eye" accomplished is too tall an order for even a long and lovely British gal, Roe does manage to quickly become the stylish older sister you wish you had.
While Plain Jane hardly amounts to a feminist breakthrough (egad, far from it), given the appetite for such fare, the CW--having kissed plenty of unscripted frogs--might have found a glass slipper that fits.
While it could be captivating to watch an everyday person change everything about herself to gain confidence (Hollywood-speak for "become hotter"), it's simply unsatisfying when the magical transformation takes place thanks to a highly trained team of stylists, a personal life coach and pricey electronic equipment.
Plain Jane is more than shopping spree and vocabulary builder; it betrays a cockamamie respect for the therapeutic process, and it shouldn't be giving too much away to tell you that the snails lose, that the plain Janes blossom, and that no stimulus money has been wasted along the way.
Too superficial to be insincere, the show never even pretends to care about her interests or her character.
Plain Jane, The CW's counterfeit ugly-duckling show, is too triflingly stupid to reach Breakthrough's profound depth of awfulness, but give it points for its abject phoniness.
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Production Company:
- Fly on the Wall Entertainment
Initial Release Date: Jul 28, 2010
Number of seasons: 3 Seasons
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