> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Fugs and Fabs: The NBC Upfronts - URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/fugs-and-fabs-the-nbc-upfronts/ - Published: 2013-05-14T15:00:54.000Z - Updated: 2013-06-11T17:39:09.000Z - Author: Heather - Tags: #wp, #wp-gallery, #slideshow, #Import 2026-10-07 07:35 ## James Spader ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/wenn20338587.xml) Speaking of James Spader, he's now working a strange Truman Capote/James Carville/Arthur Slugworth from the original Willy Wonka movie vibe. Kids, if he offers you money for an everlasting gobstopper, IT'S A TRAP. ## Lauren Graham ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/wenn20338585.xml) So, Lauren Graham has a book out now, which I am curious to check out. I'm less intrigued by this outfit. She's 46, and LOOK AT HER. She should celebrate that, instead of... whatever this is. ## Amy Poehler ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/wenn20338577.xml) I mean, Amy looks fantastic -- daytime casual, it fits, it's bright, it is very basic while also popping in a very cheerful Leslie Knope kind of way. I love it. I want Lauren Graham's outfit to be more cheerful. HAVE CHEER, LAUREN. YOU ARE EMPLOYED. ## Megan Boone ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/wenn20338458.xml) Megan is on *The Blacklist*, but a glance at her IMDB page shows she was also in one of the *Step Up* movies, so now I hope that there is a dance-off episode where she and James Spader can only communicate by busting moves. This dress is not very flattering on her, unfortunately -- it is a terrible shape -- but points for wearing bright orange shoes. ## Rachael Taylor ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/wenn20338454.xml) Did NBC try and encourage all its women to wear no-man's-land hemlines? And did those shoes really need to visit here from 2001? However, Rachael was probably thinking that she's done this pilot season thing several times now and -- despite her being the best thing in her various shows -- it's never worked out, so might as well save the happy clothes for something proven. ## David Schwimmer ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/wenn20338579.xml) Jus' bein' Ross. ## Giancarlo Esposito, Tracy Spiridakos, Billy Burke, Elizabeth Mitchell ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/wenn20338568.xml) I could not stick with *Revolution*. Every time I tried, someone did something hopelessly dumb, like the time Elizabeth Mitchell had to build a device for the bad guys, and it worked, and then later when she was able to kill that guy, she just stood there for a while talking to Billy Burke instead of disabling the evil device that was sitting right next to her -- so of course next she had to RUN FOR HER LIFE and leave it behind, fully functional. DUMB. Or the time the dude from *The Cape* and Billy Burke monologued for ten minutes instead of shooting each other. Also dumb: Billy's hair, I think, and the fact that I can see all of Elizabeth Mitchell's leg despite the fact that her dress is opaque. Too tight. However, even despite the tired peplum, I do like what Tracy "Katniss" Spiridakos is wearing -- the color and the makeup hum together. I wonder if she still has the crossbow. I don't know if I can be bothered to find out, though. ## Minnie Driver ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/wenn20338562.xml) Minnie Driver is aging beautifully, so why is her body dressed like she's 57? ## Kelli Giddish, Danny Pino ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/wenn20338549.xml) Danny looks fine. Kelli... look, I watched All My Children back when she was revealed to be Secret Dixie and then again later NOT to be Secret Dixie and the whole thing was very difficult for everyone involved, not least of whom was probably Kelli herself, who I'm sure had lots of Tad and Dixie megafans sending her mean letters. So I wish her the best. That dress is the OPPOSITE of the best. It is the poisoned pancakes of fashion (the pancakes being the vehicle for one of Dixie's deaths, in perhaps the stupidest soap moment ever). ## MJF ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/wenn20338575.xml) I love you, Marty McFly/Alex P. Keaton. I want you to be happy. So I hope your show is not JUST a string of Parkinson's jokes, like the reel was. ## Betsy Brandt ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/wenn20338469.xml) This looks lovely. She is on the new MJF show and seems like she's quite good on it, and I hear she's great on *Breaking Bad*, so... cheers all around. ## Gillian Anderson ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/wenn20338452.xml) I guess Gillian is sticking with Hannibal next year. You know, it's weird -- she, like Emma Stone, has been blonde more than she's been red, and yet I still am not used to it on her. I keep thinking how much more striking this color would have been on a redhead. ## Richard Belzer ![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/wenn20338554.xml) It should be mandatory to have at least one kook in dapper shoes deploying finger guns at your upfront. [Fugs and Fabs: The NBC UpfrontsIf NBC had canceled Parenthood or Parks and Rec for any of the shows on display at upfronts, I would have GONE INSANE FROM RAGE. The Michael J. Fox comedy might be okay, maybe; the others seem resoundingly average, if not bad. The Blacklist is basically James Spader chortling for an hour (and, Jess pointed out, full of a bunch of people doing that thing I HATE where they fake-type but forget to hit the space bar, like, JUST TYPE YOUR NAME OVER AND OVER AND IT WILL LOOK MORE BELIEVABLE), although you know I will probably tune in for that a couple times because James Spader chortling for any length of time is weirdly hypnotic. Dracula looks nonsensical, and I don't understand why Jonathan Rhys-Meyers couldn't just be BRITISH because instead he occasionally sounds like he's holding his breath while constipated. And Ironside... just watch. I kid you not, there is a line where some says to Detective Blair Underwood Ironside, "Dammit, there are PROCEDURES to be FOLLOWED," and then later there is the cliched line about how He Has A Different Perspective From Down There (Which Is In His Wheelchair, In Case You Missed It). I love Blair Underwood, but Jessica is right: That entire reel felt like the lines were written in the hopes that David Caruso would pop by and rip off his sunglasses. \[Photos: Getty\]![](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/content/files/www-gofugyourself-com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/wenn20338587.xml)](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/fugs-and-fabs-the-nbc-upfronts-05-2013/)