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"The first thing you should know about TV Guide Network's new nail-salon reality show, *Nail Files,* which premieres tonight at 10 p.m., is that it's trying to make \\\"shizz\\\" happen. The show's star, Katie Cazorla (above, left), owner of The Painted Nail salon in Hollywood, uses the swear replacement at least twice in a 20-minute premiere, once to say \\\"Holy shizzballs.\\\" Something tells me that phrase is not going to sweep the nation just yet, but you can't blame a gal for trying to get a piece of that Rachel Zoe \\\"Bananas/I die\\\" action.\\n\\n\\n\\n                   \\n\\nIf the heart of every workplace reality show pounds erratically, it's because every plot line is pure anxiety. The characters are set up to nearly fail, usually due to insane time restraints: You have 10 minutes to make a grand slam breakfast for Andre Agassi! You have two hours to find 20 bachelorettes for a curious millionaire! The situations evoke the fight-or-flight response, and the protagonist usually goes with the former and succeeds in the end, even if that success comes with damage to their personal relationships.\\n\\n\\n\\n*Nail Files* straight up follows that formula. Tonight's episode shows Cazorla racing to get a plane ticket, a hotel room, and her new line of polishes together for a gift suite at the Sundance Film Festival. She has less than three days. While certain members of her team are admittedly incompetent (and the woman who makes the signs for the polish display racks has this unnerving giggle that Cazorla mimics perfectly while mocking her), Cazorla's language gets disturbingly violent more than once: \\\"Sometimes I just want to punch Becky in the face.\\\" And Becky's not even the one who ruins the (easily fixable, BTW) display racks.\\n\\n\\n\\nThe drama all seems too manufactured and overblown: Why did Cazorla have to wait for the signs at the salon and miss her date with her songwriter fianc\u00E9, Walter? Couldn't the signs be dropped off at her home later or given to her the next morning when she stopped in at the salon before her flight? Or better still, don't schedule a date when you have to do last-minute work stuff. The day before Sundance is not the time to make dinner plans.\\n\\n\\n\\nBut the episode ends with a touch of near terror; after all of the fake problems of the show, something actually dangerous happens when Cazorla is on her way to the airport in Los Angeles. And just as that *starts* to happen, BOOM, show's over.\\n\\n\\n\\nOh, shizzballs. They got me. I'm actually going to watch the second episode to find out what happens next. I feel stupider than Becky.\\n\\n\\n\\nRELATED LINKS:\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n  [Daily Beauty Reporter: Reality Beauty](http://www.allure.com/beauty-trends/blogs/daily-beauty-reporter/2011/06/reality-beauty.html)\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n  [Insiders' Guide: How to Fix a Manicure](http://www.allure.com/beauty-trends/how-to/2010/fix_a_manicure)\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n  [Daily Beauty Reporter: Six Steps to a Perfect Home Pedicure](http://www.allure.com/beauty-trends/blogs/daily-beauty-reporter/2010/04/6-steps-to-a-perfect-home-pedicure.html)\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n  [Daily Beauty Reporter: How to Get a Great Haircut\u2014Tabatha Tells All](http://www.allure.com/beauty-trends/blogs/daily-beauty-reporter/2011/01/how-to-have-a-good-salon-exper.html)"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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