Gorgeous as ever! (Steve Granitz/WireImage.com)Okay, HEAR ME OUT. I know what you thought when you saw that headline: "Oh my God, doesn't she remember when Demi Moore designed her own Oscar dress? Or when Geena Davis did?" But then I read Matt Donnelly's post at the L.A. Times's Ministry of Gossip blog, and my fears were assuaged.

It turns out that McCarthy, unlike Davis or Moore in those earlier Oscar débacles, is not an attention-seeking fashion dilettante. She's actually a student of the field, having taken a course in textiles at Southern Illinois University. (If Moore could say the same, she'd have known not to pair brocade with damask.)

Through the Shades of Love (Love Theme from Camille's Snow Lodge) (BravoTV.com)With real-life circumstances threatening to make an erstwhile guilty-pleasure like the Beverly Hills Housewives into something gross and dirty, it's become our responsibility as consumers of reality TV to compartmentalize. Surely, quite a bit of this second season is going to be under the pall of Russell Armstrong's suicide, but between purse dogs, snarky domestic help, and (fingers crossed!) electric-cigarette-puffing psychics, we can learn to have fun again. With this in mind, we're tackling this season's episodes in order from the moments that are most demoralizing to the least demoralizing. Let's get through this together.

Pretty Demoralizing

It looks like the re-editing of Season 2 couldn't avoid the fact that Taylor Armstrong's entire arc this season is going to be about her crumbling marriage. So as the ladies jetted off to Aspen to help Camille send off her snow lodge, we ended up with a scene in the outdoor Jacuzzi, with Taylor pouring her heart out to Kyle about how she

Can we talk for just a second about home entertainment and the inevitable extinction of physical media? Because with every day that passes, I get more and more annoyed by the DVDs that are still taking up space in my very small apartment when so much more of what I want to watch is available on my computer and/or on my actual gorgeous big TV via apps on my XBox. Sometimes these technologies even make traditional TV obsolete! For example: Showtime's new national security drama "Homeland" doesn't début until October 2...but the full series premiere is online right now.

First thing this morning, I sat down with breakfast to watch Sarah Michelle Gellar's appearance on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" from last night. The NBC synopsis said Gellar "told Jimmy about her new show 'Ringer' and being a mom," and while that wasn't a lie, it conveniently glossed over the part where Sarah's entire "being a mom" segment was a very long and detailed story about her toddler daughter Charlie's diaper issues and what her poop looks like. ("I'm not poop's biggest fan, nothing personal," Gellar says, before beginning her terrible story.)

I'm not going to give away the spoiler of what Sarah Michelle Gellar's daughter's poop looks like. You're just going to have to find that out for yourself the way I did over breakfast (oh why did I have to go with a Mediterranean breakfast theme?) and Jimmy did on TV, but let's just say that Jimmy didn't seem entirely comfortable with the story and neither, frankly, was I. There should have at least been a "STOP EATING BREAKFAST NOW"