Quote of the day II

“The City” is not the advertisement for New York that “The Hills,” with its dreamily shot opening-credit sequence, is for Los Angeles. There seems to be West Coast bias at play because Manhattan is made to look boxy and claustrophobic and, so far at least, is evoked primarily by images of the meatpacking district at night. In only one shot, of Whitney and Jay together, does New York seem like a place of possibility and does “The City” look as it should, like a Woody Allen movie for people who might stumble on a copy of The New York Review of Books and wonder why there are no ads for Chanel.

-Ginia Bellafante in a fabulously bitchy review in the New York Times of "The City," MTV's Manhattan spinoff of "The Hills."