By Dean Robbins
Rachel Zoe is, like, betrayed
Rachel Zoe, a fashion stylist to the stars, finds yet another reason to feel victimized as “The Rachel Zoe Project” begins a new season (Tuesday, 9 p.m., Bravo). Rachel is shocked to discover that her extravagantly nasty assistant Taylor has acted extravagantly nasty — who’d have thought? — and screwed over the business. She reacts to this betrayal the way she reacts to everything: like a petulant teenage valley girl. That’s pretty embarrassing for a middle-aged woman with high professional standards (at least, Rachel keeps telling us that she has high professional standards).
“I feel, like, I’ve been knifed in the back so many times,” she whines. “Like, knifed over and over. I have, like, wounds.”
Is she, like, kidding?
‘12th & Delaware’
Monday, 8 p.m. (HBO)
This extraordinary documentary focuses on an explosive corner of Fort Pierce, Fla. The abortion clinic A Woman’s World sits on one side of the street, the pro-life Pregnancy Care Center on the other.
Cameras take us into each place to meet the staffers and overhear counseling sessions with pregnant women. Out front, pro-life protesters harass women going into A Woman’s World, commanding them to obey Jesus.
Inside the pro-life operation, it’s all about Jesus as well, with talk of the devil and the forces of evil — that is, when clients aren’t around.
The Pregnancy Care Center’s official approach to counseling favors subterfuge.
Anne, the director, is proud of luring in women who mistakenly think they’re at an abortion clinic. She feeds them dubious information and preys on their minds with psychological tricks.
Fooling people for Jesus — did I miss a week of Bible class? CV
