Television Review: Fly Girls, "Pilot"
by R.J. Carter
Published: March 23, 2010
If you have to reach back to early 90s hip-hop terminology for the title of your show, it's probably not a good sign. Fly Girls is the moniker attached to this CW reality offering which may or may not prompt viewers to book more travel on Richard Branson's Virgin America Airlines.
Following five stewardesses flight attendants flight crew team members who share an apartment, viewers are given a look at the glamorous life the girls live while not up in the air -- and the adventures that sometimes start a mile high. In this, the pilot episode (and I really tried for an appropriately ironic pun to use here, but found none), we are introduced to Louise (she's recently had a breakup with her boyfriend and is nervous about getting back into the dating scene), Tasha (a single mom who shares joint custody with her baby's daddy), Farrah (the mother hen of the group), Nikole (the recent addition to the team) and Mandalay (the small but dynamite leader of the pack).
Meet Your Crew. L-R: Tasha, Louise, Mandalay, Nikole and Farrah. |
Viewers get to learn what an IFB is, as one of the girls gets invited to a cocktail party while in-flight. And old rivalries flare up when two girls' shared past comes back, and former best friends turned frenemies have to learn to live with each other. But someone's just a little too catty to let things lie, and when an opportunity comes to undercut the other in front of the big boss, the temptation is just too much to pass up.
Fly Girls was originally slotted for the 9:30pm ET timeslot, where it would follow High Society. However, perhaps due to the dismal reception of the Tinsley Mortimer saga, CW has opted to open with Fly Girls in the 9:00pm ET slot, bumping High Society to the later half-hour. And, while I agree that of the two Fly Girls probably has the most appeal, it's doubtful whether this series has enough to keep viewers tuned in for High Society, let alone enough fuel to keep from crashing and burning on its own merits. Rearranging the schedule may have accomplished little more than putting the plane wreck before the train wreck.
Fly Girls debuts March 24, 2010 at 9:00pm ET on the CW.
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