Prepare yourselves for these too, as we know they're all coming:
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
The Hills
In this week's episode we see Audrina go freaking crazy. That's all really.
Audrina has heard from some guy named Dino (this should have been clue number one that the info wasn't legit) that Justin and Lauren hooked up. She's crying. To everyone. And apparently texting everyone, like EVERYONE, about it.
Lauren's hurt and pissed that she would believe that at all in the first place and she tells Lo that Audrina is acting crazy. What MTV doesn't show is that that week this rumor was all over the internet too, including on PerezHilton.com where Audrina actually talked to him about it. So, looks like LC had a reason to be mad.
Holly goes to Heidi and Spencer's apartment to look for Heidi and Spencer treats her worse than I think I've ever treated anyone, except it's just like an everyday thing.
So she goes to find Heidi at work. "Don't you have an office?" "I don't want to talk about it." Lulz. They sort of has things out, and Heidi finds out that Holly came to visit. When she asks Spencer if she's been there he lies and says no. Heidi does nothing.
Audrina goes to talk to Justin about the rumors. He thinks Audrina's being as ridiculous as Lauren does. He actually sounds well-spoken and mature and lucid. It's all very weird and Audrina realizes that she probably did something shitty to Lauren.
So, of course, she goes to talk to her about it AT A BAR. Perfect. She asks her for the 11 millionth time if it's true. Lauren gets pissed and tells her that she's worse than Heidi ever was. It's obvious that she just said this to hurt Audrina and that Audrina is experiencing the paranoid delusions that only a girl who's been cheated on a million times can (we learn from Stephanie in this episode that Justin has hooked up with Audrina's friends in the past). It's uncomfortable for me to watch and I realize that it's because these are real moments. These people, however set up have real relationships. Being paranoid Audrina tells Lauren that she's seen her and Justin flirt before. Lauren has the best response ever:
"Flirt?!" I would rather kill myself than hook up with Justin. He disgusts me. Justin is disgusting!"
Truer words were never spoken.
I want to see next week. Also, I want less real emotion. I don't watch this reality show to see reality.
Audrina has heard from some guy named Dino (this should have been clue number one that the info wasn't legit) that Justin and Lauren hooked up. She's crying. To everyone. And apparently texting everyone, like EVERYONE, about it.
Lauren's hurt and pissed that she would believe that at all in the first place and she tells Lo that Audrina is acting crazy. What MTV doesn't show is that that week this rumor was all over the internet too, including on PerezHilton.com where Audrina actually talked to him about it. So, looks like LC had a reason to be mad.
Holly goes to Heidi and Spencer's apartment to look for Heidi and Spencer treats her worse than I think I've ever treated anyone, except it's just like an everyday thing.
So she goes to find Heidi at work. "Don't you have an office?" "I don't want to talk about it." Lulz. They sort of has things out, and Heidi finds out that Holly came to visit. When she asks Spencer if she's been there he lies and says no. Heidi does nothing.
Audrina goes to talk to Justin about the rumors. He thinks Audrina's being as ridiculous as Lauren does. He actually sounds well-spoken and mature and lucid. It's all very weird and Audrina realizes that she probably did something shitty to Lauren.
So, of course, she goes to talk to her about it AT A BAR. Perfect. She asks her for the 11 millionth time if it's true. Lauren gets pissed and tells her that she's worse than Heidi ever was. It's obvious that she just said this to hurt Audrina and that Audrina is experiencing the paranoid delusions that only a girl who's been cheated on a million times can (we learn from Stephanie in this episode that Justin has hooked up with Audrina's friends in the past). It's uncomfortable for me to watch and I realize that it's because these are real moments. These people, however set up have real relationships. Being paranoid Audrina tells Lauren that she's seen her and Justin flirt before. Lauren has the best response ever:
"Flirt?!" I would rather kill myself than hook up with Justin. He disgusts me. Justin is disgusting!"
Truer words were never spoken.
I want to see next week. Also, I want less real emotion. I don't watch this reality show to see reality.
90210 Recap
In last week's episode of 90210 we get to see more Annie/Naomi bitchery, remember why Dixon and Grandma are the best parts of this show, and thank god that SoapNet re-runs the original show.
Still reeling from their half-brother's arrival now sworn enemies,(I liked it better when they were frememies---Anna Lynne McCord's smoldering look is pretty lolworthy), Naomi and Annie begin to make their way in a post-sweet sixteen showdown-world. Who will Naomi sit with at lunch? Is Hollywood invading Annie's saccharine veins? Do you think I could get a job manning the Kraft Services table on this set?
While Silver blogs about where Naomi will sit to "eat" (lunch-room politics were already adeptly examined in Clueless and unless we're going to top it CW, let's not do a cheap knock-off), she chooses a risky table of upperclassmen. Hilariously, they only drink coffee for meals. Best part of the whole show. At least someone's being honest with themselves. They have a Heathers-esque recruitment process that involves a lot more restaurant reservations and Sidekick programming than it does murder but I don't know if even that would make these girls interesting.
Ethan, and eventually Annie are worried that her hatred for Naomi, and its root---the evil Hollywood machine---, are turning Annie away from the Kansas girl that we know and love. The thing is that Annie is so fucking boring I could fall asleep when she's being sweet and demure. However, when she's forced to act out any kind of emotion I remember her Degrassi roots. Not in the good Paige is a stripper way but in a a terrible Rick is hitting Terri way. If you didn't understand that: Shenae Grimes is seriously limited as an actress. After what can only be described as verbal showdown (bereft of wit or sassy delivery), Annie realizes the err of her ways and dresses up as the school mascot for the big lacrosse game.
Dixon goes all warpath at the game because his dad invited his new son to watch. And move in. And just generally be white with him. I can't look at him on screen without remembering that Ashlee Simpson wrote most of her debut album about their breakup. I'm also on Dixon's side because unlike Naomi's pursed lips or Annie's squinty eyes,Dixon's face is able to purvey real emotion subtly. After his blow-up he has a talk with his dad about feeling left-out as the adopted child. And feeling totes black in Hollywood. It was touching.
Naomi used her connections with token Latino guy to get into his Dad's fancy restaurant so he makes her promise him a kiss. After a surprisingly spark-free pucker, he explains that she has to kiss the mascot. OH, SNAP! It's Annie...you just got played!
The most interesting part of the episode? Adrianna puking up her guts every two seconds. Preggers much? I wonder what Navid's family will think. Or him, seeing as he's virginal and all.
Ryan's still dating jailbait. Kelly's sad. Brenda admits that she slept with Ryan. Boy gets around!
Next Week: We find out what new brother's intentions are. Drama, drama, drama. The girls eat. Well, probably not that lastone.
Still reeling from their half-brother's arrival now sworn enemies,(I liked it better when they were frememies---Anna Lynne McCord's smoldering look is pretty lolworthy), Naomi and Annie begin to make their way in a post-sweet sixteen showdown-world. Who will Naomi sit with at lunch? Is Hollywood invading Annie's saccharine veins? Do you think I could get a job manning the Kraft Services table on this set?
While Silver blogs about where Naomi will sit to "eat" (lunch-room politics were already adeptly examined in Clueless and unless we're going to top it CW, let's not do a cheap knock-off), she chooses a risky table of upperclassmen. Hilariously, they only drink coffee for meals. Best part of the whole show. At least someone's being honest with themselves. They have a Heathers-esque recruitment process that involves a lot more restaurant reservations and Sidekick programming than it does murder but I don't know if even that would make these girls interesting.
Ethan, and eventually Annie are worried that her hatred for Naomi, and its root---the evil Hollywood machine---, are turning Annie away from the Kansas girl that we know and love. The thing is that Annie is so fucking boring I could fall asleep when she's being sweet and demure. However, when she's forced to act out any kind of emotion I remember her Degrassi roots. Not in the good Paige is a stripper way but in a a terrible Rick is hitting Terri way. If you didn't understand that: Shenae Grimes is seriously limited as an actress. After what can only be described as verbal showdown (bereft of wit or sassy delivery), Annie realizes the err of her ways and dresses up as the school mascot for the big lacrosse game.
Dixon goes all warpath at the game because his dad invited his new son to watch. And move in. And just generally be white with him. I can't look at him on screen without remembering that Ashlee Simpson wrote most of her debut album about their breakup. I'm also on Dixon's side because unlike Naomi's pursed lips or Annie's squinty eyes,Dixon's face is able to purvey real emotion subtly. After his blow-up he has a talk with his dad about feeling left-out as the adopted child. And feeling totes black in Hollywood. It was touching.
Naomi used her connections with token Latino guy to get into his Dad's fancy restaurant so he makes her promise him a kiss. After a surprisingly spark-free pucker, he explains that she has to kiss the mascot. OH, SNAP! It's Annie...you just got played!
The most interesting part of the episode? Adrianna puking up her guts every two seconds. Preggers much? I wonder what Navid's family will think. Or him, seeing as he's virginal and all.
Ryan's still dating jailbait. Kelly's sad. Brenda admits that she slept with Ryan. Boy gets around!
Next Week: We find out what new brother's intentions are. Drama, drama, drama. The girls eat. Well, probably not that lastone.
Smile wit cho eyes!
Well, the big winner of ANTM Cycle 764 was this thing:
I guess the ascension of top model winners such as Naima and Nicole (who I once met in a Forever 21 in Minnesota...well, I freaked out while she walked by) wasn't enough for Tyra so she decided to go a different route. She picked a dude. To each their own I suppose.
Um, I really stopped caring about this show a while ago. They're all going to be big fails anyway, we may as well have an adorable personality. And I thought that Analeigh was a pretty decent model, especially if you're going to whore yourselves out to CoverGirl. She's COMMERCIAL. And her commercials were bomb. So, she got nervous and forgot some lines in the last commercial challenge. Here's an idea: don't do the commercials in DUTCH. Sigh, I need some pretty in this post.
I guess the ascension of top model winners such as Naima and Nicole (who I once met in a Forever 21 in Minnesota...well, I freaked out while she walked by) wasn't enough for Tyra so she decided to go a different route. She picked a dude. To each their own I suppose.
Um, I really stopped caring about this show a while ago. They're all going to be big fails anyway, we may as well have an adorable personality. And I thought that Analeigh was a pretty decent model, especially if you're going to whore yourselves out to CoverGirl. She's COMMERCIAL. And her commercials were bomb. So, she got nervous and forgot some lines in the last commercial challenge. Here's an idea: don't do the commercials in DUTCH. Sigh, I need some pretty in this post.
Friday, November 21, 2008
Seperated At Birth????
Kim from The Real Housewives of Atlanta and Milf from Real Chance of Love. Double the pretty.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Biggest Loser
I don't know that I've talked about The Biggest Loser on here yet but I've been hooked for years. The show, which follows overweight contestants from across the United States as they compete to both lose the pounds and win a large stack of cash is one of my favorites. Complete with glaring product placements (the Jello Grandprize!, if you need a quick snack try a 5 calorie stick of Wrigley's gum, etc.), insane coaches (the man-like drill sergeant Jillian and the effeminate emotionally accessible fat woman's best friend Bob), insane challenges and plenty of drama, The Biggest Loser manages to do what the best reality television ought to.
It enlightens the viewing audience and its participants about the nature of humanity. These peoples' stories are so like our own. Heart disease, diabetes, cancer---real life problems every single person who plugs in a television this year will be personally affected by. These are the kinds of things that television was made to escape, the problems that a half-hour sitcom can never erase but that a laugh-track will, for a period of time at least, drown out.
This is where reality television can get tricky. Since so much of the purpose of television, of all entertainment, is to provide a form of escape the premise of real life can never provide the necessary escape. Or can it? I'm sure Fox executives would tell you no. Rather than hold up a mirror to the American public they'd have 50 midgets pulling an airplane or set up married couples to cheat on one another or make women fall in love with a construction worker under the illusion that he is a millionaire. I do not begrudge them this opinion. Certainly, by the presence of the amount of subsidiary VH1 crap I have on my DVR, I think that there is a place for this type of thinking. I do not believe, however, that it is impossible to successfully include a small amount of reality in reality television. In fact, it is the height of the medium.
The Biggest Loser paints pictures of real people. Married couples and parents and children this season. It shows obesity for what it really is. A family problem. A community problem. A disease. And its victims are not lazy. They have jobs and children. They have dreams like we all do; and more likely than not, however much we'd rather not admit it...they look exactly like we do. So as the audience watches the sweat and tears that go into shedding the pounds on the ranch, a new sort of escapism emerges. Instead of escaping to Paris Hilton's LA mansion or an island in the Pacific, we escape to an obtainable, preferable and healthy future. The health tips are anything but seamless, the recipes obviously present as a vehicle for product promotion and the weigh-ins overly dramatic but at the end of the day being healthy seems a little more tangible.
It enlightens the viewing audience and its participants about the nature of humanity. These peoples' stories are so like our own. Heart disease, diabetes, cancer---real life problems every single person who plugs in a television this year will be personally affected by. These are the kinds of things that television was made to escape, the problems that a half-hour sitcom can never erase but that a laugh-track will, for a period of time at least, drown out.
This is where reality television can get tricky. Since so much of the purpose of television, of all entertainment, is to provide a form of escape the premise of real life can never provide the necessary escape. Or can it? I'm sure Fox executives would tell you no. Rather than hold up a mirror to the American public they'd have 50 midgets pulling an airplane or set up married couples to cheat on one another or make women fall in love with a construction worker under the illusion that he is a millionaire. I do not begrudge them this opinion. Certainly, by the presence of the amount of subsidiary VH1 crap I have on my DVR, I think that there is a place for this type of thinking. I do not believe, however, that it is impossible to successfully include a small amount of reality in reality television. In fact, it is the height of the medium.
The Biggest Loser paints pictures of real people. Married couples and parents and children this season. It shows obesity for what it really is. A family problem. A community problem. A disease. And its victims are not lazy. They have jobs and children. They have dreams like we all do; and more likely than not, however much we'd rather not admit it...they look exactly like we do. So as the audience watches the sweat and tears that go into shedding the pounds on the ranch, a new sort of escapism emerges. Instead of escaping to Paris Hilton's LA mansion or an island in the Pacific, we escape to an obtainable, preferable and healthy future. The health tips are anything but seamless, the recipes obviously present as a vehicle for product promotion and the weigh-ins overly dramatic but at the end of the day being healthy seems a little more tangible.
Entertainment Weekly Names Tristan Wilds Breakout Star-2008
Congrats BB!
Wilds, who projects an easy warmth as Dixon on The CW's reboot of 90210, had an important decision to make before filming began: whether to follow in the follicular footsteps of previously sideburned alums Luke Perry and Jason Priestley. ''I'm like, 'Hmm. Should I go with the ham hocks or not?''' the 19-year-old says with a laugh. But the former Wire actor is far more interested in mirroring the career of Will Smith, one of the producers of this year's The Secret Life of Bees, in which Wilds costarred. He's got the TV zip code right. After all, Smith's big break came after he moved west and became the prince of a town called Bel-Air.
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