Friday, January 23, 2009

True Beauty

In another mindless addition of to the annals of Reality Television, True Beauty occupies perfectly good television space and sucks me in with second rate judges, contestants I can't quite get into, and inane challenges. Oh but don't worry, there's plenty of Vanessa Manillo to make fun of so I'll keep watching.

So um, highlights!

The idea behind the show is that these people think they're competing in a beauty contest in order to win a spot in People's 50 Most Beautiful People issue. Well, that's a real prize but the competition is really an INNER beauty contest. GET IT?! Gosh, this is gonna be so tricky.

As you can guess, the douche bags who would enter themselves in a television beauty contest are their own brand of special.

There's Chelsea:


She gets picked on by the other idiots because she's too much of an idiot. These people obviously have pack-hunting higher-schooler syndrome and need someone to make fun of. Chelsea's it. And while she's ugly, they all are?

And Billy:



He actually looks like that. With that hat. And when he takes the hat off the hair is Zoolander spiked, as you might expect it to be. Oh. My. God.

The problem with the show it its core is that the beautiful people are actually ugly. WTF.

So, there are challenges like fashion shows and photo shoots but hidden within are tests to see whether they'll be mean or nice in certain situations. In the latest episode a wardrobe specialist working on the contestants' photo shoot gets call after call from her boyfriend and starts crying uncontrollably. If the contestants don't ask her what's wrong, they fail. What?! If someone were acting like that to me I would tell them to start doing their job. So, apparently true beauty means looking like Billy and being a pushover.

Did I mention that the show is produced by Tyra Banks and Ashton Kutcher???? It can only make total sense.

Vanessa Manillo is a judge which probably means that as well as looking like Billy and being a doormat we should have sex in hottubs with burned out boy-banders. Huh.

Next week, another contestant's dreams are crushed and ABC continues to keep the one minority contestant around in fear of appearing more than marginally racist.

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