‘The City’: Whitney Port’s dream or nightmare?

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Our intrepid TV reporter Denise Martin is on a much-needed vacay, so until her regularly scheduled Show Tracking of ‘The City’ begins, we figured we’d round up some reax from around the blogosphere of Whitney Port’s spinoff debut.

New York Magazine’s review was the most glowing. It notes that viewers are in for ‘one slutty series’ and wonders whether ‘The City’ is, in fact, ‘television’s new heroin.’

Entertainment Weekly said watching the show was ‘refreshing’ but still had lots to say about its hits and misses.

TV Guide summed up ‘The City’ by saying ‘the girls are rich and the boys are hot.’

But what about the couch potatoes at Television Without Pity? They’re wondering if the spinoff is change or more of the same?

Film.com thinks the latter. Their blogger says: ‘It’s pretty much like ‘The Hills,’ but with more dialogue, less vacant stares and equal amounts of hair-fiddling.’

The Hartford Courant says ‘The City’ portrays fashion-maven Port as ‘refreshingly normal.’

Normal might not be the word we’d want to hear about our TV debut, but it’s better than being called ‘both painful and completely unaffecting.’

Youch. What do you think? Was last night’s premiere a TV winner or loser?

Photo credits: MTV