(The producers) approached me awhile back. They always had me in mind. I didn't think I'd do it, but they kept approaching me and pestering me. I had just had a child and didn't want to travel, so it started to sound better.
– Natasha Henstridge of "She Spies" – which could be called "La Femme Nikita" has an "Alias" and it's "Dark Angel," according to Kevin Williamson of "the Calgary Sun."
She Spies does more than fall flat; it actually recreates a pre-feminist scenario. Instead of jiggling boobies, we have a more up-to-date, jiggle-free version of hard-bodied breasts and cleavage. This is post-feminism at its worst, in which the women are represented not as making any choices, but as occupying an even greater number of stereotypes: ditzy, physically strong, and possessing Victoria's Secret-worthy bodies.
Plus, the girls are discouragingly ruled by their male boss, who essentially pimps them out as secret agents, kind of like Charlie of Charlie's Angels.
– Tracy McLoone, PopMatters Film and TV Critic,
who is pimped out by her boss to write looney tomes
we both know all the things but, for some odd reason,
have to say them out loud.
Jack: I guess so. Yeah.
from "The Martini Shot"
The guilty pleasure "Insomniac With Dave Attell" (Comedy Central) keeps being put on at earlier and earlier hours, but I still wouldn't let my mother watch it. Mom's not the type to enjoy gratuitous footage of drinking, motorcycle riding, midnight fireworks shopping and slopping alligators. Instead she'd rather take in something cultural, like "She Spies."
– Tom Heald's Remote Patrol
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"People at these spy agencies are so... suspicious." |
Why is it so hard for network execs to see that a show is awful?
Why do they need to wait for the numbers? Are they so out of touch?
In any event, I know that in my old age, when death starts to near,
I'll surely think back to this precious hour wasted.
gotstosay, who bears his pain in anonymity –
"Say that to our faces."
