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# Fugs and Fabs: The NBC Upfronts
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/fugs-and-fabs-the-nbc-upfronts-2/
- Published: 2014-05-13T16:00:50.000Z
- Updated: 2014-05-13T07:53:03.000Z
- Author: Heather
- Tags: #wp, #wp-gallery, #slideshow, #Import 2026-10-07 07:37

## Debra Messing

![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/debra_messing_wenn21341417.xml)

The OTHER mystery of Laura is what the HELL this dress is, and why there's a random ab peephole.

## Krysten Ritter

![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/krysten_ritter_wenn21341424.xml)

She'll be in a TV movie for NBC called "Mission Control," and it REALLY REALLY feels like she overdressed for this one, eh? I really wish she'd hacked it off and worn it as a mini-dress, because although it would be strange, it would also be better.

## Ryan Eggold, Megan Boone

![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/489915535.xml)

So she IS growing out her hair. Sayonara, Wig! Also: Sadly, Megan Boone is the weak link on that show, and her dress is a weak link on her body, BUT she at least wore cute shoes with it, and Ryan Eggold is a great accessory. (He kind of looks like he just came from an audition for "Chuck" because he mistakenly thought it was seven years ago.)

## Minnie Driver, David Walton

![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/489915507.xml)

Is "About A Boy" any good? I didn't sample it. Minnie looks perfectly nice though, and -- fun fact -- I just found out David Walton is married to Majandra Delfino of *Roswell*, so... memories.

## Sophia Bush

![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/sophia_bush_wenn21341390.xml)

It's the color of my mop bucket water, it's made to look like it's falling off her, and it's tight enough to do crazy things to her bod. WHITHER BROOKE DAVIS.

## Tina Fey, Ellie Kemper

![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/tina_fey_ellie_kemper_wenn21341402.xml)

Sure! They look nice. There isn't a reel around that I've seen of the Fey-produced *Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt*, but reportedly Ellie Kemper is shrieky in it, which is a shame. Tone THAT down in episode two, mayhap.

## Anne Heche

![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/anne_heche_wenn21341404.xml)

I would like this so much better if it weren't a tube top. Just JOIN IT ALL UP. BE A JOINER.

## Katherine Heigl

![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/katherine_heigl_wenn21341408.xml)

She REALLY should have let that jacket hang open. It would've given all of this at least a fighting chance. I mean, it's FINE, but.... not her best effort. Which may prove prophetic.

## Alfre Woodard

![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/alfre_woodard_wenn21341430.xml)

I find her very soothingly competent. Like, 'Here is my simple black dress, here is my pop of color, I'm Alfre f'ing Woodard so I'm awesome, go about your day."

## Seth Meyers

![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/seth_meyers_wenn21341426.xml)

I am enjoying the resurgence of the polka-dot tie.

## Kate Walsh

![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/kate_walsh_wenn21341428.xml)

I really wanted to bang something and yell, "OVERRULED," but this is actually okay.

## Cristin Milioti

![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/cristin_milioti_wenn21341443.xml)

"I wore these nude shoes so you wouldn't ask me about WTF was up with the How I Met Your Mother ending, because I KNOW. I know."

## Peter Facinelli

![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/wenn21341444.xml)

Button it up, Peter. Just button it up.

## Anna Friel

![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/anna_friel_wenn21341445.xml)

Holy cow, the pants. No. If they were fitted and hemmed then MAYBE but THEY ARE NOT and so no soup for her.

## Casey Wilson

![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/casey_wilson_wenn21341446.xml)

That color leather looks like 1987 to me, but the shirt is cute, and her lipstick is great. As the prophet Meat Loaf said, two out of three ain't bad.

## Margarita Levieva

![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/margarita_levieva_wenn21341448.xml)

This SHOULD be cute and somehow it's leaving me very chilly indeed. I wish greater things for that skirt fabric.

[Fugs and Fabs: The NBC UpfrontsI call this The Season NBC Has Decided Women Are Surprisingly Competent Freaky-Ass Messes. You can watch the promo reels here. Also: I thought it would be a fight to see whether Debra Messing or Katherine Heigl is least convincing in her technical dialogue, but based on the reels, it's Messing, hands-down, who is as solid a choice for a cop as Rachel Bilson was for a go-getter heart surgeon (but I still love you, Dixie). Bad Judge: Kate Walsh is a PROFESSIONAL LADYPERSON who is also a TOTAL MESS in her personal life! She manages to drink and be crass and party and have sex in her office while also meting out punishments in small-claims court! There's a child to give her a heart! There's a rip-off of the "Put That Thing Back Where It Came From Or So Help Me" joke from Monsters Inc.! Bad looks like the operative word! State of Affairs: Katherine Heigl is a PROFESSIONAL LADYPERSON who is also a TOTAL MESS in her personal life! She manages to drink and sleep around while also meting out punishments to terrorists! (She even says, "Total slob in my personal life, total sniper in my professional one," in case the reel was way too subtle for us.) There is President Alfre Woodard's Dead Son to give her heart! There's a rip-off of Homeland (blonde, kind of unhinged, also kind of brilliant, really hates terrorists)! State -- as in, it's in one -- looks like the operative word! Mysteries of Laura: Debra Messing is a PROFESSIONAL LADYPERSON who is also a TOTAL MESS in her personal life! She manages to clean up her family messes while also meting out punishments to criminals! There are her twin sons and her maybe-still-into-her almst-ex husband Josh Lucas to give her heart! It might not be a rip-off, but there's a really hacky joke where they want you to think she's enterting a bloody crime scene, and she is... but it was a crime of HER CHILDREN MAKING A MESS WITH PAINT! Bonus points for hacky use of Tom Jones' "She's A Lady"! Mystery -- as in, why it got picked up -- looks like the operative word! A to Z: This looks like How I Met Your Mother -- right down to starring The Mother, Cristin Milioti (here, as Adorable Brunette Whom We Are Expected To Believe Has No Romantic Experience, Or Something) -- except without the flashbacks, and beginning with the meet-cute. It's one of those Comedies With Heart, and it also stars Ginsberg from Mad Men, who is super cute when he's allowed to shave the mustache. The reel is charming enough, but it would require a great ensemble, I think, to give itself legs, and they're not in the clip enough to convince me of anything. Marry Me: I'm concerned about what plagues Happy Endings creator David Caspe. His first show was about a couple splitting up at the altar, and then this one is about a pair (one of whom, Casey Wilson, is his actual fiance; the other is Ken Marino) that has a huge fight about his commitment issues... except he was about to propose, and now they're trying really hard to convince each other that it's meant to be, or something? Honestly, this clip reel played like a self-contained series of vignettes that they'd air as commercials, like those Taster's Choice ads, except it would be for deodorant. It's another one that needs a dynamite ensemble to grow into, I think, because otherwise I'm not sure what the show is. I always watch these things and think, "Okay, but what is season three?" and I just have NO IDEA what that looks like with this one. Constantine: It's based on a comic. He's a demon hunter. He's not a great actor. It was once a Keanu Reeves movie... I think I'd have been okay if it had stayed one. \[Photos: WENN, Getty\]  ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/debra_messing_wenn21341417.xml)](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/fugs-and-fabs-the-nbc-upfronts-2-05-2014/)