It’s September which means daytime talk is back! And what a premiere day it was. As children frolicked to school through air that had just a hint of fall’s crispness to it, parents turned their television sets on to bask in brand new footage of Women Getting Real. If you were an alien life force who got your first and last chance to figure out what the human race was about on Monday September 9, 2013, you would think Women Getting Real was about the most boring thing ever.
Over at Bethenny, Bethenny Frankel celebrated her full season talk show pickup with a roster of entirely male guests. After dancing to her horrible theme song “Calling All My Girls”, Frankel asked a panel of men their opinions on various “women’s” issues and prompted her largely female audience to raise their hands and acknowledge whether or not they watch porn (some brave souls did). “I’m known for being honest, straightforward and unfiltered,” Frankel promised us for the thousandth time, while making no mention of her acrimonious divorce in the montage recapping the past few years of her life (was poor and struggling; became a Real Housewife; befriended Ellen). She also had some zexy moments with the zesty guy and Salt N Pepa did not perform, as I thought they would after misreading my emails. This was a huge disappointment given that today’s musical guest was in fact Flo Rida.