cleaver1968

This programme is on the face of it great fun - not unlike its subject matter. It gives a great sense of the environment and the world the magazine represents as well as the decade.

However, also like its subject matter, it's all a bit frivolous. If you're looking for an in depth study of the workings of the magazine - like the fantastic documentary 'The September Issue' or the BBC's marvellous 'Boss Women' and their series 'The Look' - you will be sorely disappointed. Focusing more on the culture of the time and pinpointing specific, pivotal moments of the decade, details of Vogue's contribution to it feel like they're mentioned merely in passing more than as the main core of the show.

One of the other main let downs are the inclusion of contributors like magazine editor Edward Eninnful and film director Baz Luhrmann. Both of these men though perhaps emergent in their fields during the 90s were hardly at the forefront of the field of fashion and certainly not at Vogue. You get the impression that both are included merely by the fact that they have recently been flavour of the month - Enninful with his forgettable tenure at the helm of British Vogue and Luhrmann simply because he's one of Wintour's buddies of the moment.

All this said the show is great fun and definitely worth watching. Just don't expect anything more than a celluloid edition of the superficial glossy.

Generally the show is good - the characters, their relationships and the unfolding storylines are well enough developed and interesting to keep you tuning in to see where it's all going. However all the strengths of the show are blunted by the constant overuse of profanities. I'm not a prude, and understand that many people do speak in a similar fashion in the real world. But every other word in the show is f@?! or worse. Is this really necessary? Does the show's writer have such a poor grasp of English that they have to revert to such jarringly bad language to let the characters to express themselves. Disappointing as the show is otherwise good.

Was keen to see this show mainly because of Aniston and Witherspoon, both of whom turned out to be the best things in it. The idea is gripping and topical considering what's going on in the media. However any of the show's good qualities are completely dulled and overshadowed by the proliferation of profanities and swearing which make up nearly every other word. Does the writer of the show know no other word than F? I see no one else picks up on this so maybe I'm a prude but such limited grasp of the English language is boring and quite honestly off putting. Which is a shame as everything else about the show is sharp and clever.