Red Shoe Diaries
Entertainment Weekly, May 1, 1992
Later this month, Showtime will
premiere RED SHOE DIARIES (Showtime, May 16, 9-11 p.m.), directed by soft-porn
smoothy Zalman King (Wild Orchid). Diaries is Penthouse magazine crossed with
a J. Crew catalog, a yuppie fantasy about the romance between a hunky young
architect (The Rapture's David Duchovny) and a lovely young interior decorator
(One Good Cop's Brigitte Bako). They're hopelessly, drippily in love: "He
knows everything about me," she writes in her diary, "my troubles with my
mother, the abortion I had when I was 18, my fear of the dark, my fascination
with fire..." (That's the cable equivalent of "It's too hot to sleep!")
Trouble arises when the interior decorator also falls for an equally hunky
young construction worker (Billy Wirth) who has a part-time job as a shoe
salesman; he sells her a pair of red high heels - excuse me, a $200 pair of
Kenneth Cole red high heels, as is pointed out many times. She adores the
architect, but come on, a construction worker with good taste in shoes -
what's a girl to do? Pretty soon, this one is snarling, "My panties - rip
'em
off! Do it!"
For sheer sustained kookiness, Diaries is more entertaining than most sexy TV
shows, but its insidious, numbing dumbness seems to demand some sort of
protection - a new product, perhaps: a brain condom.
