Seriously... This Show is May-jah
I don't hate Posh Spice. I don't like Posh Spice. I just don't give her much thought whatsoever. So when I heard there was going to be a reality series about her moving to America with hubby David Beckham, I rolled my eyes. Somewhere along the line that 6-episode series turned into one (Becks didn't want to be involved, Posh probably didn't want her children to be shown) and the "series" was truncated into a single special episode called Victoria Beckham: Coming to America. The show aired on Monday, and I meant to watch it, thinking it would be a fun train wreck, but I forgot. The next day the critics panned it, and a woeful 4 million people watched. Then my friend Crissy -- who IS a fan of Posh and the rest of the Girls -- told me I really, really had to see it. She said it wasn't funny in a train wreck way, but that Posh is seriously funny. Then my friend Fionna told me last night it was set to air last night again, and she, too, had thought it was pretty funny, but in a more ironic way.

So, I tuned in. And seriously, folks, this woman is HILARIOUS. And I don't mean in a Jessica Simpson, GOD-she-is-so-stupid sort of way, I mean she's wickedly funny. There were moments where I was laughing out loud.

The producers were clearly trying to go for a "look at the ditz" sort of show, and they didn't get one. The commercials showed her looking through a driver's handbook saying, "What's an intersection?" and Americans were supposed to sit on their couches and guffaw. But in the UK, it's called a crossroads. It would be the same as if an American went to the UK and passed by a border guard who asked to see inside their boot. As the American would be taking off his footwear, the guards would be rolling their eyes and pointing to the trunk of the car, which is what they were referring to. Posh isn't an idiot; she just speaks a different language. And if she WAS aware of what an intersection was and was just asking, she was doing it on purpose.

If you think for a moment that a single second of that show was done without her knowing, think again. Victoria knows she's a caricature, and she does her best to play it up for laughs. And seriously... I was laughing. "Just a moment, I have to look miserable," she says as she prepares to go outside the face the paparazzi.

But for the most part, she's genuinely funny. When she's looking for a house, a real estate agent boasts, "This house was built from the ground up." Without missing a beat, she responds, "Aren't ALL houses built from the ground up?" In another house, she sees a fancy wooden floor, and the agent tells her it was installed by Lionel Ritchie when he lived there. Posh responds, "He put in this floor? Whilst dancing on the ceiling?" Hahahahahahahaha... Everything is major, pronounced "may-jah," though it's not clear if it's meant to be a good or bad thing.

My favourite part, however, is when she goes to a socialite luncheon. Thinking she needs to have some Beverly Hills friends (hoping also they might have children who would play with her trio of boys) she accepts the invite and when the door opens, Posh enters a house full of middle-aged, Botoxed women who have all had so much plastic surgery their lips are stretched almost to their ears. The decor is HIDEOUS, and in her voiceover she says, "I didn't know if I should laugh or cry." One woman, who appears older than the rest, has wispy, shoulder-length hair that's been blown back and sprayed that way, and Posh says to the camera, "There was this one woman there in a powder-blue suit who'd had a MAY-JAH blowdry." I LAUGHED my head off. (This woman looked like Cameron Diaz in There's Something About Mary.) The voiceover continues, "There was so much red lipstick in that room is was may-jah. I've never seen so much red lipstick. These women were FABulous."

She has to throw out the first pitch at a Dodgers game ("But what if I lose the game for them?" she asks... hahahahaha) and shows up in short shorts and high-heeled trainers (see pic above) and throws the ball like she's training for shotput. She goes to the DMV with her hairstylist and makeup artist to take her driver's license photo, and pulls one of her fierce poses, then looks at the pic and asks if she can have a redo, and when the woman says no, retorts, "Well, can we do any touch-ups?" Again, she's doing all of this fully aware of what she's saying.

This show is awesome. I didn't really think of Posh one way or the other before, and now I think she's hilarious.

I'm gonna go watch Spiceworld now. I hope it's may-jah.