After completely rotting my brain for an hour on the god-awful MTV show, Bromance, it was hard to get geared up for another new show starring a familiar face from The Hills.

But thankfully, it didn't take long to fall into step with Whitney Port's new life in The City, which was introduced with two back-to-back episodes. It's pretty much like The Hills, but with more dialogue, less vacant stares and equal amounts of hair-fiddling.

Whitney arrives for her first work day at Diane von Furstenberg wearing an electric yellow printed dress that reminds me of some painted-splashed pants I had in the late 1980s. It's a great way to make a memorable first impression. (Well, that and having a camera crew follow her around.)

She meets Olivia, a co-worker/socialite with an affinity for Manolos, who will be a regular part of the cast. Olivia, who has clearly been enveloped in a pop culture vacuum for three years, asks Whitney where she's from. And then, "Have you worked in fashion before?" Well, that, and I was employed asking Lauren Conrad about her personal life for a few years. It's a role you'll get familiar with soon enough!

After work, Whit meets Jay (the guy she's dating) for dinner. They flirt, he kisses her hand and she seems smitten, as evidenced by the constant scrunching up of her nose. Later, smooth operator Jay offers her a place to stay for the night and they kiss on a street corner.

We see Whitney work at Fashion Week for approximately 90 seconds and then attend the DVF after-party, where her boss showers her with compliments as Olivia looks on.

Olivia invites Whitney to her dinner party and tells her to bring Jay. But when Whitney asks him to go, he sweeps his tousled hair around a few times, and then tells her he'll take a pass. "The group you don't want to get involved with are the rich kids," he tells her.

She asks if he'll go anyway, just to hang with her. Jay shakes his head. "I always do what I want and that's it, you know." My God, does this charmer have any single brothers?

So Whitney takes Erin to the party instead, and a surprised Olivia asks where Jay is. At the crowded dinner table, Olivia grills Whitney some more about Jay and his whereabouts. Meanwhile, we see Jay out with his roommate, Adam, and he laments how fast his relationship is going with Whitney. "A little more space never hurts," Adam says. But neither does a little more air time, so Jay heads over to Olivia's shindig, stays for about five minutes, then jets out with Whitney and Erin.

Alex (a model who we saw Whitney date once on The Hills) resurfaces to tell her that Jay is a player who is trying to get back with his ex. "I hate being that guy to bring it up," Alex says, but I'm getting paid by producers to cause some trouble, so I might as well.

Whitney discusses the potential Jay problem with Erin and comes up with a plan: "I've just got to ask him, because it's the only thing I can do." And besides, everyone knows cheating guys always tell the truth when confronted.

When Whitney talks to Jay, he offers to explain: He saw his ex out one night, they talked, he walked her to the cab, but they didn't go home together even though it may have looked like it. To drive home the point, Jay denies, denies, denies, then whips out his cell phone: "We can call Dani and ask her right now." Of course, Whitney says not to worry about it.

Works every time, Jay thinks.

Next, Whitney makes plans to go out with Erin, Jay, Adam and Adam's girlfriend. "It will be a fun night of nothingness!," Whitney predicts. Yay! Just like my Monday night appointments with MTV!

The group arrives at the nightclub, and (surprise!) Alex is there talking smack about Jay's womanizing ways. Jay and Alex get into a long, boring verbal sparring match consisting of profanity-laden sentences ending in "dude."

Finally, Whitney meets with her old boss, Kelly Cutrone, who all of the sudden seems like a nice, nurturing mother figure. They talk work and boys. "You can always come here and throw anything off a balcony," Kelly offers.

Hmmmm, Whitney. Might want to start with Jay. Or better yet, Bromance.

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