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A visit to Kansas City
REALITY TV BLUES
I got sucked into the joys of having 500 digital cable channels and finding nothing to watch at all. At one point, I was pretty sure I saw a FOX cable station that is launching that is 100% reality shows and behind the scenes, all day, all night. (Yup, that was no nightmare, it's actually real - Fox Reality Channel) I can go on for days about this,
but instead, I'll just tell you 'bout what I saw:SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE - A dreadful premise, a dreadful, dizzying competition complete with inane judges, this show couldn't hold my attention for more than 13 seconds.
0 out of 10 reality stars
SUPERNOVA- Stop me if you've heard this one before: the guy who quit Metallica, Tommy Lee and Dave Navarro decide to start a band and need a lead singer, so they cast a wide net of horrible singers to perform seriously bad on TV. It's worse than bad karaoke.
1 out of 10 reality stars
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PROJECT RUNWAY - This devilish show is in its third season I guess, and so its allure is wearing off some of my friends, but damn if it didn't remind me of my freshman year at art school. A roomful of struggling designers hurrying through dumb project after dumb project with a haughty instructor and judges making callous remarks at the end. Deadly fun, plus Alison is a super hotty.
8 out of 10 reality stars
AMERICA'S GOT TALENT - This show force feeds the ironic (non)-coolness of David Hasselhoff and surrounds him with the goofy aloof straight-man of Regis Philbin and a slew of hopelessly banal acts to take the stage. Instead of inspiring creativity and talent, this show parades freaks who don't quite measure up to Vaudeville standards and pales in comparison to the real life talent less segment of society America already has: Hollywood.
2 out of 10 reality stars
WHO WANTS TO BE A SUPERHERO - Filled with really bad acting, an absolutely bottom of the barrel premise of making a bunch of attention seeking folks into superheroes, the show could have been a hysterical send-up of superheroes ala 'Mystery Men', but instead is just pedestrian, and no one likes Clark Kent.
3 out of 10 reality stars
SPECIAL BONUS NON REALITY TV SHOW:
LOST - I got hooked on this show in pretty short order once I was exposed to it. Once I was caught up and catching episodes as they aired on TV, I knew I had a problem. Every week, I would be so upset as to swear off ever watching another episode, but someway, somehow, the show keeps sucking me back in. It does feature some smart
writing sometimes, and delves a bit deeper into themes and philosophy than most schlock on TV, but at the end of the day, its still an outlandish soap opera.So when my friends in KC had the first episodes on DVD, I began their journey down the same path of addiction I've traveled the past year. Already, they have the same complaints as I do, but somehow, keep watching. They also hate Jack as much as I do, so maybe we're all just wired the same.
7 out of 10 stars |
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