Bunheads (2012-2013)
This was Amy Sherman-Pallodino's series about a Las Vegas showgirl (played by Sutton Foster) who marries a man on a whim and moves to his sleepy coastal town where she winds up working alongside her new mother-in-law (played by Gilmore Girls' alum Kelly Bishop) at her ballet school (hence the nickname "bunheads").
It lasted only one season. Sutton Foster, fresh from her Tony Award-winning performance in Anything Goes, left the Broadway smash in the Spring to film this TV show. It was a hit with critics and developed a sort of cult hit status among fans, but none of that was enough to save it, and after 18 episodes the show was cancelled.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | May 2, 2025 3:59 AM
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Sutton Foster is an odd actress. She has a superb voice, though.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 7, 2022 4:25 PM
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Sutton wasn’t very good in this. Hadn’t yet figured out how to make her acting smaller for the camera.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 7, 2022 4:40 PM
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She's spectacular on stage but that doesn't always translate to the screen.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 7, 2022 4:55 PM
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I really liked this show. I decided to give it a chance after rejecting it as a GLEE knockoff. Pleasantly surprised by the characters and lovely story.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 7, 2022 8:31 PM
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Never got the chance to watch this. Nor did i realise Sutton was the lead.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | July 9, 2022 10:58 AM
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It was cute. I was never sure how they would sustain the story but it was fun. Anything with Kelly Bishop is worthwhile.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | July 9, 2022 11:00 AM
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The show had a nice look to it. Lots of autumnal brown colours in the cinematography. Sutton never quite felt natural on screen but I came to enjoy her quirky charisma and the easy 'rainy day Sunday viewing' quality the show had. I would have watched maybe one more season anyway, but it felt like it at least got seen by enough people and isn't totally forgotten.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 9, 2022 5:11 PM
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I watched this! I actually quite liked it. It wasn't as amphetamine laden as Gilmore Girls, which I liked. And the mean girl lead was fantastic.
As was Bishop, of course.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | July 9, 2022 5:17 PM
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Practice audition for Ginny (later to be Imogene from Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | July 10, 2022 4:57 AM
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Amy Sherman-Pallodino definitely has a type. Sutton Foster and Lauren Graham could be sisters. I started watching Etoile yesterday (the jury is still out on this one) and then went down an Amy Sherman-Pallodino rabbit hole and started watching Bunheads too, which I did not know existed. It is a lot like GG, as a poster above said, but less manic.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | May 1, 2025 1:01 PM
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When it comes to Amy Sherman-Pallodino, I have sufficient.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | May 1, 2025 2:24 PM
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I loved this show, but then I'm just an old dancing queen.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | May 1, 2025 2:33 PM
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The title of this show is one of the worst things to name anything ever.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | May 1, 2025 3:49 PM
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I just watched a couple of episodes of this show not too long ago. There wasn’t a lot of story in the episodes I saw, but I really liked Sutton.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | May 1, 2025 11:09 PM
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For R2 : Joanna Gleason had the same problem.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | May 2, 2025 3:59 AM
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