Right? Am I missing something here?

There was a really strange column in the Sunday Inquirer, from everyone’s favorite pink-shoed columnist, Karen Heller. It concerns the new mid-season replacement sitcoms and why they degrade women by having pretty women be single losers. Eh. Maybe? I don’t really doubt that it’s harder to be a woman working lead on a sitcom, but, that seems like a bit too broad (zing) of a statement. Also, the fact Freddie Prinze Jr. got a sitcom degrades all men.

No matter. Certainly an okay column idea at least. But what caught my eye was Heller’s lead:

Not to worry if you didn’t catch Heather Graham’s Emily’s Reasons Why Not, the ABC show in which the heroine is such social roadkill that it makes Lisa Kudrow’s The Comeback look like self-help theater. In general, you should be paid to consume so many empty carbs. Fortunately, I am - so you don’t have to.

Graham, with Bambi eyes and Jessica Rabbit body, is so aesthetically and aerodynamically confounding as to have played Austin Powers’ arm candy and a porn star in P.T. Anderson’s indelible Boogie Nights.

On television, though, she has made the unnatural progression to total dating loser — perhaps because she owns up to reaching the near-death age of 36 — but mostly, I suspect, because watching beautiful things be as miserable as most mortals are has become a contact sport. This is what Sarah Jessica Parker and her Cosmo-swilling entourage have wrought, a modeling squadron of distraught, lonely women.

Yes, if you’re pretty, you’re happy — and shouldn’t be shown otherwise. Unless you’re Heather Graham, whose Emily’s Reasons Why Not provides the main example for Heller’s argument, and your show was cancelled after one episode. This factoid, unless you read the first clause a certain way, isn’t mentioned in the column. (I perused it three times; it’s still possible I could have missed the mention of it.)

Look for an impassioned defense of The Book of Daniel in the pages of the Inky later this week.

Intuition | Treating cute babes like stupid loser dirt [Inky]
ABC halts production of Heather Graham’s ‘Emily’s Reasons Why Not’ [UPI via RealityTVWorld.com]
NBC Cancels ‘The Book of Daniel’ [9News]