reality shows

Pretty, the Series: A web mockumentary

01.29.2010

Late in the evening when there’s absolutely nothing else on, I have found myself on occasion watching Toddlers & Tiaras. It’s one of those train wreck reality shows in which overweight parents groom their small children to compete in obscure beauty pagents usually held in the Deep South. I feel guilty about watching it, at [...]

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Rock Star Supernova

09.13.2006

Okay, I am well and truly pissed.  That skunkhead, Lukas Rossi, won.  The guys picked him over Dilana.  I was actually considering going to their concert, but I cannot stand the weeney boy.  I literally cannot listen when he sings because he is so grotesque.  The sight of him prancing actually makes my retinas ache.

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So You Think You Can Dance, the final 6 – August 2, 200

08.02.2006

A Lively Live Blog…   Heidi & Travis o     His solo: He can really move his body, but I’m a bit bored with him already.  These solo numbers aren’t long enough to do much with.  They throw their big stuff into the ring and it just ends up looking chaotic. o     I wish she’d done [...]

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Project Runway – Malan

07.21.2006

I just watched last night’s PR. I’m not going to recap or critique it. I just need to say how sad I am that Malan is out. I know people think he is creepy, and there is something a bit reptilian about him. But more than anything else on the show, each week I was [...]

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So You Think You Can Dance – top 10

07.19.2006

Ivan & Martha Popper/hiphop:  She didn’t have it.  Ivan outdanced her. His moves were clean and sharp and big; hers were not. They weren’t together, except in the last bit, when they did the mirror thing with their hands, and I said, okay, now I know what the rest of it was supposed to be.  [...]

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So You Think You Can Dance? – Top 12

07.13.2006

Natalie & Musa – Hip Hop She’s posturing.  She does a sexy act that is beginning to wear thin on me.  Nigel: Musa was in top form; Natalie didn’t have much to do and so she was acting, rather than dancing.   Ryan & Heidi – Cha Cha Ryan has never seen the cha cha [...]

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Big Brother 7 – The All-Stars

07.11.2006

What is amazing about this show is how some of the players have changed over the years.  Like Chicken George, who now has strawberry blonde hair.  I remember on BB1 that he went through a spate of hair dying experiments, generated by that nutsy girl (whose name I’ve forgotten) who always had multi-colored hair.  He [...]

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So You Think You Can Dance – 7/05/06

07.06.2006

26 minutes into the show and all we’ve had so far are replays of the auditions that weren’t considered funny/weird/exciting/entertaining enough to make the first cut.  Also, I don’t want to sound bitchy—but who is dressing Cat?  Whoever it is is putting her in what my mother would have called dresskelas.  Little dresses, cute little [...]

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When the right word is just wrong

05.30.2006

I feel quite lonely now that all of the reality shows to which I have become quite hopelessly addicted are gone.  Survivor, American Idol, America’s Next Top Model – they are the cool fire that my husband and I toast our hands before of an evening.  The reality shows that have replaced them–America’s Next Bottom [...]

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American Idol, the next night…

05.25.2006

Dija watch? Dija watch?  Of course, and loved every minute of it, even the hokey, over-the-top ones.  See the Washington Post’s review for what made me laugh.   But where is Taylor now?  Kat was the feature, co-hosting on both Access Hollywood and Extra tonight.  How come?  My guess is Papa hired one of the major PR [...]

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