The Hills

So here's my quick blurb on the newest summer TV addiction, The Hills, the Laguna Beach spin-off starring the less-than-charismatic L.C. as she follows her big dreams and lands an internship at Teen Vogue while enrolled in fashion school. (As a quick aside, this show has featured some of the greatest interviews I have ever seen. We won't even get into the train wreck that is Heidi, I just loved Lauren and Lisa Love's one-on-one. LL: "Can you write?" -- silence -- LC: "Yeah, I can write..." -- silence -- "...I mean, I like to... I can.. I.." And it's amazing, folks, she gets the job! It's great to see MTV really defining real-life career scenarios for the teen set. All around the country kids must be throwing their half-assed resumes into the fireplace.)

L.C.'s friend and roommate Heidi remarkably established herself as TV's most-hated -- and most entertaining-- character over the course of the brief 20-minute first episode. To make matters worse, Heidi is a real person. She could not be more stupid, self-centered, lazy, or heartless if she tried. And that's why this show is so damn great. Only two episodes in, I realized this is not a show about L.C. and her life in Hollywood, but rather, a progression about how ridiculous this girl Heidi can get, and how much L.C. can handle before she finally breaks.

This week we found out that, thankfully, it does not take much, and our little L.C. -- who allowed herself to be played by the loving Stephen for two years in Laguna -- is over people's crap.

The scene in which L.C. simply hangs up her cell phone while Heidi is in mid-conversation blabbing about her newly-landed "dream job" as an assistant with Bolthouse -- yes, getting coffee for people is definitely a dream, Heidi, and I'm sure your salary will be a dream, too, not that it matters obviously, because it seems you're doing okay without the job, sitting poolside in your amazing Hollywood loft, and where are your parents anyway, and what in the world do they think when they watch this show? -- was my favorite L.C. moment ever. I think all loyal Laguna viewers shared a similar feeling at that very moment... "Hey, this L.C., she's not so bad after all...in fact, I kinda like her."

And then there was Heidi, staring blankly and looking confused, repeating "Lauren? Lauren?" into her phone, then shrugging and bouncing away happily. I would say, "Let the cat fighting begin!" but unfortunately I think Heidi is too slow on the uptake to figure out when she's being mocked. That, and she obviously doesn't care. She's going to be rubbing elbows with Paris Hilton soon enough anyway, right?

All we need now is for Lo to visit The Hills and tell her best pal L.C. that she needs to start hanging out with cooler people. Oh, how good Kristin Cavalieri is looking right about now...