Showing posts with label The Ex List. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Ex List. Show all posts

16 November 2008

The Ex-List: At least we've got a bit closure!

To the five million or so who've watched The Ex-List and have been bummed about its cancellation, series show runner Dianne Ruggiero reveals to E!Online the man they intended Bella to end up with. Because the show has been yanked off air with merely four episodes, we never got to this part of the story.

And yup, the fortune teller was right, "the one" has been part of her life all along.

The man is her BFF, Augie.

You've suspected as much?

“My plan was to end the first season with Bella getting married. Marina (the psychic) told her that she already dated The One and that if she didn’t marry within the year she’d never marry. She never said she had to marry The One within the year.

“Soooo, my plan was to have Bella hook up with an old college ex around episode 13. In the past, he had just started dating someone when he met Bella. He fell for Bella and dumped his girlfriend, only to have his relationship with Bella last for like a day. Now she meets up with him again. They hit it off like crazy. One problem, he’s engaged. The episode ends with Bella not wanting to wreck his engagement. She’s worried that she’s letting the prophecy cloud her judgment and she doesn’t want to ruin someone else’s potential happiness. Anyway, long freakin’ story short—episode 19 he comes back. He had ended the engagement anyway and is available.

“Bella, in the meantime, has entered a new phase in her relationship with Elliott. He’s her new best friend. And she’s had a huge fight with Augie and their friendship is on the rocks. The clock is ticking. She tells College Ex about the prophecy. He says they should get married. They head to Vegas. Elliott rushes to Vegas to stop them. He’s too late. Right after they tie the knot College Ex is telling a stranger at the casino the story of how he met Bella. He mentions that they were both dating someone else. Bella is confused. She was single when she met him—we flash back to a college party—Bella and Augie enter. She sees someone she used to date and doesn’t want to appear to be at the party alone. She tells Augie that he is her boyfriend for the night.

“Basically, Bella gets married then moments later realizes that Augie is the one. That was the season one plan.

"Hope you don't think it blows."
Aww. I think it would've been perfect. Except that would throw Vivian off the picture. Vivian, who is also good friends with Bella and who is such a cool girlfriend to Augie. I wonder what the reason is for their break-up? Now that? I'd really like some answers, too, please! What's gonna happen to Vivian?

04 October 2008

The Ex List S1 E1 Pilot

I don't wanna overhype this show because it's still the first episode, and to be honest, I was ready to quit watching after 10 minutes but you know what? I love it! I love it! I love it! I love it.

Let's see...while watching, I had....
  • the Juno vibe, because the characters talk the way they talk in Juno, only Bella and her friends on The Ex List are grown ups (in their 30's) so they're cooler.
  • the My Name is Earl vibe, because Bella has to cross off names of her ex-boyfriends in a list.
  • the How I Met Your Mother vibe, because Bella is surrounded by a similar silly bunch of people. Her best friend has a vagina toupee! How crazy is that?


The Ex-List is adapted from an Israeli TV show. It starts off with Bella (Ava/Rebecca on Grey's Anatomy) learning from a fortune teller that she only has one year to go and get married, for otherwise? She will be a spinster forever. The fortune teller also told her she already has met the man, her future husband. She's dated him in the past.

So, you get the idea. Every week, Bella's going to reunite with an ex, in the hopes of finding the man whom she will have to marry within the year.

The first man Bella reunites with is an ex from 2001. Bella thought he was a loser....she really broke his heart. Seven years after that, the guy is all tattooed, in leather and is singing in a rock band. They do hook up again. But Bella learns the hard and most embarrassing way --- the guy was after revenge and humiliation all along.

Here, have a peek at The Ex List:

24 May 2008

Sneak Peek: The Ex List, Harper's Island, Project Gary

More shows to check out this fall:

THE EX LIST

THE EX LIST is a comedic drama about Bella Bloom (Elizabeth Reaser, "Grey's Anatomy") - a single, 30-something, successful business owner who is surprised to learn from a psychic that she's already dated her future husband AND there's a catch: if she doesn't find him in the next year, she'll remain alone forever.

HARPER'S ISLAND

The new drama, HARPER'S ISLAND, is a murder mystery that unfolds as friends and family attend week-long festivities at a destination wedding on a secluded and picturesque island off the coast of Seattle, infamous for a homicidal maniac's rampage seven years ago.

PROJECT GARY

Project Gary stars Jay Mohr ("Ghost Whisperer") and Paula Marshall ("Nip/Tuck") in a comedy about Gary Barnes, a recently single painting contractor, and his controlling ex-wife, Allison, who face post-divorce mayhem after 15 years of marriage as they each embark on new relationships. He's the fun parent and she's the strict one.