What ever happened to good ole fashion TV? I miss the days where we had shows with real characters and real story lines. Now we just have "Real housewives" a show that follows rich woman, half of them not even traditional housewives in the sense or even married, running around spending money and fighting with each other. We have "Millionaire match maker" where men or woman with money are set up with men and woman who don't have any... yea that's a real match made in heaven. Don't even get me started on Jersey Shore or Real World... They even have 20 different talent shows like American Idol, X Factor, Americas got talent... yet none of them have any, talent that is... so what next?
My question is why do people keep watching this stuff? Granted I'm a bit jaded because Ive worked in the industry but at the same time I have literally tried time and time again to watch this crap and just cant get into it. What do people see in this stuff? Celebrity Rehab is a perfect example... to me that show is a joke, following around former celebs who have addiction issues exploiting them to the masses. They try and make the show look like its a positive effort to help its "patients" but you cant pull the wool over my eyes. I know its just for ratings and exploitative. Half the people on the show end up relapsing and coming on for another season, yea real helpful.
I just don't understand why we as a society need this stuff on the tube. I don't understand why we have to feed into it and make these people "Reality TV stars". Especially in this economy where there are so many talented people who are jobless and broke it makes my blood boil knowing people like "The Situation" and "Snooki" are raking in millions of dollars... and for what? Because ones a drunken fool and the others a dumb whore? If that's the case sign me up, if that was the new barometer for success I'd get rid of my degree, and boat loads of debt, trade in years of work experience for a shot glass and a fourty ounce and collect my checks.
One Reality "star" I worked with and actually befriended told me how he had never held a real job in his life. He lucked out by booking a casting for a show and now makes over 100 grand a year, and that's when hes not even on a show taping and just making bar and club appearances. He shows up to a place for an hour, signs some autographs, takes a few pictures, gets tons of free food and booze and leaves to another place to do the same, he'll do that 2 or 3 times a night and get paid $3-5 grand each visit. He'll make more in one night than some make in almost half a year. Tell me there isn't something wrong with that picture. Yet I have a degree and this guy barley graduated high school.
I don't think realty TV stars should be paid as much or even more so than Doctors, that's the point I'm trying to make. You can make the same argument about athletes and how ridiculously overpaid they are but at least in their case I can say they have a real world class talent. I just ponder when we will wake up and realize what crap we have been force fed to watch and end this proverbial Reality TV psychosis we are in. I cant picture a world 5 to 10 years down the road where Toddlers and Tiaras is still on the air. As I said in previous posts I am hoping that eventually there will be this Renaissance of sitcoms and scripted shows and the Reality TV genre will decrease. I supposed for the moment we have to deal with this infection that is Reality TV and hope its not a virus that keeps on spreading with more and more of it coming on the tubes everyday as it is now, and has been for quite some time.
Come to think of it, I don't think I have actually enjoyed or found a Reality show that I enjoyed watching for its content value at all. Except for ones that might of had a hott chick I was attracted to on them. Even all of the shows Ive worked on I have never watched, well other than the credits just to see my name scroll by. Other than sports I really don't watch TV at all and Reality is the main reason why. In doing this blog I have come to realize that though my opinions are strong I may be in the minority for my hatred of Reality TV . In doing research there are more positively charged Reality TV blogs and articles than bad ones, More shows pop up weekly, and more Reality stars are gaining celebrity recognition by the day.
Even over in Europe, Reality TV is just as popular as it is here, maybe even more. I actually found a British Reality TV blog with the same name as my own and all it does is talk about British reality TV. No real opinions or insider information like I offer, but more so recaps of the different shows and happenings of its stars. What I have realized is as jaded as I am about my opinions of Reality TV it is definitely not going anywhere for a while, and I must live with that fact. The good thing is I have an outlet where I can vent my Television frustrations in hopes that one day Reality TV will be nothing but a stage our society has gone through and my blog will have to be no more. Until then I will continue to scrutinize, look back, hate, bitch and moan about Reality TV and all its stars that come with it.
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Monday, December 5, 2011
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
My dear Snooki
So I found a blog that for the purposes of my own I am going to start paying more attention to. It is called the
MTV Remote Control Blog and follows all of MTV's reality shows and its band of characters. One post I just have to comment on is one about my dearest old friend Snooki. In the post she goes on to tell a story about when she was interviewed by GQ Magazine and was forced to "think" during questioning because rather then ask her about partying and the Jersey Shore house they actually asked her about politics and life after reality television. She said "I've never really had to think in an interview...This is the first real interview that I ever did in my life!" I never knew thinking about your future and political affiliation was such a process that it throws you for a loop when asked. I guess thats why Snooki isn't exactly known for her "brains".
What really threw me for a chuckle was when Snooki said she was upset with how she and her fellow cast members are perceived by the public. She says...
"people just think that we're stupid, that we have no education, and all we do is drink, have sex...I would love to [change that]. I have an education. I went to college, you know?"
Well Snooki NO I DON'T KNOW!... Even when you're not in the cast house and out in public or making appearances you are constantly acting like a drunken fool, in fact all of the Jersey Shore cast members are. You make party appearances at night clubs, its not exactly as if you are showing up to a fund raiser for the March of Dimes. You yourself are the one who acts in the very way we perceive you. I mean in a previous blog entry from the same site you are staining a wall with the immense amount of makeup you wear??? And I'm supposed to look at you differently and not like the idiot to which most of the world thinks you are? Cmon Man!
If you want us the think differently of you its simple...act differently. I personally don't think you can, and you just want some remorse for some of the harsh things people in the media say about you. Its OK if you are exactly what we think you are, no need to put up a fake front to change our opinions, we just wont like you. I know I don't... and that's that. SO keep "GTLin", keep staining walls with your face, and keep getting drunken misconducts and arrested by the police... Its who you really are... and any future questions about politics will cease in further interviews because lets face it... no one really cares.
If you want to see the post I am commenting on or to read more about my girl Snooki or other MTV reality shows read... http://remotecontrol.mtv.com/
For the entire official GQ interview with Snook read... http://www.gq.com/entertainment/celebrities/201111/snooki-gq-interview-college-politics-election-jersey-shore
MTV Remote Control Blog and follows all of MTV's reality shows and its band of characters. One post I just have to comment on is one about my dearest old friend Snooki. In the post she goes on to tell a story about when she was interviewed by GQ Magazine and was forced to "think" during questioning because rather then ask her about partying and the Jersey Shore house they actually asked her about politics and life after reality television. She said "I've never really had to think in an interview...This is the first real interview that I ever did in my life!" I never knew thinking about your future and political affiliation was such a process that it throws you for a loop when asked. I guess thats why Snooki isn't exactly known for her "brains".What really threw me for a chuckle was when Snooki said she was upset with how she and her fellow cast members are perceived by the public. She says...
"people just think that we're stupid, that we have no education, and all we do is drink, have sex...I would love to [change that]. I have an education. I went to college, you know?"
Well Snooki NO I DON'T KNOW!... Even when you're not in the cast house and out in public or making appearances you are constantly acting like a drunken fool, in fact all of the Jersey Shore cast members are. You make party appearances at night clubs, its not exactly as if you are showing up to a fund raiser for the March of Dimes. You yourself are the one who acts in the very way we perceive you. I mean in a previous blog entry from the same site you are staining a wall with the immense amount of makeup you wear??? And I'm supposed to look at you differently and not like the idiot to which most of the world thinks you are? Cmon Man!
If you want us the think differently of you its simple...act differently. I personally don't think you can, and you just want some remorse for some of the harsh things people in the media say about you. Its OK if you are exactly what we think you are, no need to put up a fake front to change our opinions, we just wont like you. I know I don't... and that's that. SO keep "GTLin", keep staining walls with your face, and keep getting drunken misconducts and arrested by the police... Its who you really are... and any future questions about politics will cease in further interviews because lets face it... no one really cares.
If you want to see the post I am commenting on or to read more about my girl Snooki or other MTV reality shows read... http://remotecontrol.mtv.com/
For the entire official GQ interview with Snook read... http://www.gq.com/entertainment/celebrities/201111/snooki-gq-interview-college-politics-election-jersey-shore
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
The punch heard round the world...
The Jersey Shore is probably one of the the most if not the most infamous Reality TV programs on air right now. With its equal part haters and supporters it has put MTV on the top of the map of Reality TV show makers. What initiated the shows popularity during its inaugural season was what I like to call "the punch heard round the world". Snookie, one of the shows main characters, was inebriated at a bar, as she often is, and began to curse and throw something at another patron across from her. The patron, who was later to be revealed as a school teacher, took action to Snookies drunken shots with a shot of his own, and preceded to punch her in the face. When looking at the video this whole thing is shocking, disgusting and just flat out wrong, but this is what MTV is looking for.
MTV, and other Reality TV show creators want this, they want to capture the borderline crazy and very much of the time illegal to happen. It makes for good ratings because viewers want to see the risque shocking and appalling to happen. But where do we draw the line? As much as I have expressed my disdain for Snookie even she doesn't deserve to get hit like that. I mean in my opinion MTV all but sets this up to happen, they constantly send these now very public and very publicly hated figures out into the most volatile of situations. It's easy enough for a normal person like you or me to go out to a club and get into a fight, now imagine going out with a crew of cameras and a group of people with a negative reputation in a place that feels the very show being filmed paints it under a negative light. You are just asking for things like this to happen and continue to happen.
My point is that today its an always drunk Snookie getting punched in the face for her antics, but tomorrow who knows? When is this going to stop? Will we have to wait until someone gets really hurt or maybe even killed before we stop following around cocky drunken characters into the night? The same way Snookie was punched in the bar that night future violence can escalate, someone could end up getting shot or stabbed the next time they are in one of these heated altercations, which happen on almost every episode. Or is this what MTV and Reality TV creators want to happen next...to capture the first live Reality TV show stabbings, or shootings or worse on their prime time television show?
MTV, and other Reality TV show creators want this, they want to capture the borderline crazy and very much of the time illegal to happen. It makes for good ratings because viewers want to see the risque shocking and appalling to happen. But where do we draw the line? As much as I have expressed my disdain for Snookie even she doesn't deserve to get hit like that. I mean in my opinion MTV all but sets this up to happen, they constantly send these now very public and very publicly hated figures out into the most volatile of situations. It's easy enough for a normal person like you or me to go out to a club and get into a fight, now imagine going out with a crew of cameras and a group of people with a negative reputation in a place that feels the very show being filmed paints it under a negative light. You are just asking for things like this to happen and continue to happen.
My point is that today its an always drunk Snookie getting punched in the face for her antics, but tomorrow who knows? When is this going to stop? Will we have to wait until someone gets really hurt or maybe even killed before we stop following around cocky drunken characters into the night? The same way Snookie was punched in the bar that night future violence can escalate, someone could end up getting shot or stabbed the next time they are in one of these heated altercations, which happen on almost every episode. Or is this what MTV and Reality TV creators want to happen next...to capture the first live Reality TV show stabbings, or shootings or worse on their prime time television show?
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Top Ten
Hello all... on today's post I am going to unveil my top ten worst reality shows. They are all terrible in my eyes but these really take the crown. So here they are....
10. Flavor of Love : One of the original stinkers this show was full of shit... literally, one of the contestants pooped on a staircase during a taping of an episode. Mix in a bunch of class less, fame hungry hoe bags and you got yourself a show with some of the most unfortunately unforgettable memories in reality television. 3 seasons spawned a spinoff...equally as terrible called "Strange Love". Note...Flava Flave did not find love and is still currently single... big surprise.
9. I Love New York : One of the worst reality personalities that was given birth to by Flavor of Love was back to back season finalist "New York" aka Tiffany Pollard. She was loud, obnoxious and as ignorant as a human being can be. Mix in a bunch of testosterone hyped steroid pumping meat heads who were equally as ignorant as contestants and your have #9 on my list. This show survived for 2 seasons and even worse than New York was that the show included New York's mother "Sister Paterson" and if you saw the show you'd see exactly where New York got her personality from. Like mother like daughter... unfortunately for viewers you had to deal with both in one show. Spinoffs were "New York goes to Hollywood" and "New York goes to Work". Thankfully shes no longer "working" starring in terrible Reality TV shows.
8. The Bad Girls Club: I didn't really see too much of this show but when I did all I ever I saw was naked girls cursing, kicking, screaming and fist fighting. From what I later found out almost every cast member has been involved in some sort of a sex tape as well... big Surprise! Shows like this give girls a bad name...
7. Real World : Sad part is I used to like this show. The older seasons were actually pretty good Reality TV dealing with some "real" hot issues such a Alcoholism, Drug Abuse, and Homosexuality to name a few but it seems now with Jersey Shore and co. Real World in recent years has felt the pressure to keep afloat and that in my eyes has allowed it to take a back seat and suffer. I have to give credit where credits due though, Real World was one of the "Originals" and is in its 26th season. It doesn't look like its going anywhere anytime soon either... Spinoffs include Road Rules, Real World vs Road Rules Challenge
6. Basketball Wives : This show is just ridiculous....A bunch of grown ass women acting like clicky high school teens. Oh and they aren't even married to their aforementioned professional basketball player husbands anymore! So how the hell are they still called "Basketball Wives" ??? They are a bunch of middle aged Mothers running around the country bad mouthing their ex's and each other... Terrible
5. The Hills/ Laguna Beach : These shows really fire me up. They are both about a bunch of snotty rich kids from Cali who don't even do anything with their lives except spend their trust funds and date each others boyfriends. Oh and they also travel and get invited to red carpet events and receive loads of plastic surgery. I just scratch my head.
4.My Super Sweet 16 : Speaking of spoiled brats, this show highlighted them and put them on their own stage for all to see. I mean this show literally featured 16 year old's crying because they got a Mercedes Benz in the wrong color for a birthday gift. REALLLYYY????
3. Toddlers and Tiaras : This show just saddens me and shows a terrible dark side to parenting. Some of what these parents do to their own children should be labeled as abuse. These kids are 3 or 4 years old and are taken on tour and dressed up as if they were 23 or 24 year old hookers all to win a trophy in a beauty padget for kids. One of the most frightening shows on television.
2. Jersey Shore : Shocking that this wasn't my number one with my previous post reaming into it but there is worse TV out there than these Guidos. If you read my previous post you know exactly why this is # 2 on my list.
1. Teen Moms : I will eventually make a separate blog post about this show but low and behold this is my #1 worst Reality TV show. Glorifying teen pregnancies these teen moms have become reality celebs for all the wrong reasons. This show has wrongfully spawned real life teenagers to make "Pregnancy Pacts" in hopes that if they get pregnant they can get on the show and become "famous". Like raising a teen isn't hard enough for parents as is but now they have to deal with this. Thanks MTV!
10. Flavor of Love : One of the original stinkers this show was full of shit... literally, one of the contestants pooped on a staircase during a taping of an episode. Mix in a bunch of class less, fame hungry hoe bags and you got yourself a show with some of the most unfortunately unforgettable memories in reality television. 3 seasons spawned a spinoff...equally as terrible called "Strange Love". Note...Flava Flave did not find love and is still currently single... big surprise.
9. I Love New York : One of the worst reality personalities that was given birth to by Flavor of Love was back to back season finalist "New York" aka Tiffany Pollard. She was loud, obnoxious and as ignorant as a human being can be. Mix in a bunch of testosterone hyped steroid pumping meat heads who were equally as ignorant as contestants and your have #9 on my list. This show survived for 2 seasons and even worse than New York was that the show included New York's mother "Sister Paterson" and if you saw the show you'd see exactly where New York got her personality from. Like mother like daughter... unfortunately for viewers you had to deal with both in one show. Spinoffs were "New York goes to Hollywood" and "New York goes to Work". Thankfully shes no longer "working" starring in terrible Reality TV shows.
8. The Bad Girls Club: I didn't really see too much of this show but when I did all I ever I saw was naked girls cursing, kicking, screaming and fist fighting. From what I later found out almost every cast member has been involved in some sort of a sex tape as well... big Surprise! Shows like this give girls a bad name...
7. Real World : Sad part is I used to like this show. The older seasons were actually pretty good Reality TV dealing with some "real" hot issues such a Alcoholism, Drug Abuse, and Homosexuality to name a few but it seems now with Jersey Shore and co. Real World in recent years has felt the pressure to keep afloat and that in my eyes has allowed it to take a back seat and suffer. I have to give credit where credits due though, Real World was one of the "Originals" and is in its 26th season. It doesn't look like its going anywhere anytime soon either... Spinoffs include Road Rules, Real World vs Road Rules Challenge
6. Basketball Wives : This show is just ridiculous....A bunch of grown ass women acting like clicky high school teens. Oh and they aren't even married to their aforementioned professional basketball player husbands anymore! So how the hell are they still called "Basketball Wives" ??? They are a bunch of middle aged Mothers running around the country bad mouthing their ex's and each other... Terrible
5. The Hills/ Laguna Beach : These shows really fire me up. They are both about a bunch of snotty rich kids from Cali who don't even do anything with their lives except spend their trust funds and date each others boyfriends. Oh and they also travel and get invited to red carpet events and receive loads of plastic surgery. I just scratch my head.
4.My Super Sweet 16 : Speaking of spoiled brats, this show highlighted them and put them on their own stage for all to see. I mean this show literally featured 16 year old's crying because they got a Mercedes Benz in the wrong color for a birthday gift. REALLLYYY????
3. Toddlers and Tiaras : This show just saddens me and shows a terrible dark side to parenting. Some of what these parents do to their own children should be labeled as abuse. These kids are 3 or 4 years old and are taken on tour and dressed up as if they were 23 or 24 year old hookers all to win a trophy in a beauty padget for kids. One of the most frightening shows on television.
2. Jersey Shore : Shocking that this wasn't my number one with my previous post reaming into it but there is worse TV out there than these Guidos. If you read my previous post you know exactly why this is # 2 on my list.
1. Teen Moms : I will eventually make a separate blog post about this show but low and behold this is my #1 worst Reality TV show. Glorifying teen pregnancies these teen moms have become reality celebs for all the wrong reasons. This show has wrongfully spawned real life teenagers to make "Pregnancy Pacts" in hopes that if they get pregnant they can get on the show and become "famous". Like raising a teen isn't hard enough for parents as is but now they have to deal with this. Thanks MTV!
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Fist Pumpin @ The Jersey Shore
So I must admit that the main reason why I created this blog was not just for my disdain for reality TV as a hole...but for my immense disdain for one particular reality TV program...The Jersey Shore...Now I will also admit that I am a bit jaded with my hatred toward the show because I had an opportunity to work on the show during its inaugural season but turned it down to work on another show that at the time I thought had a better chance of sustaining interest, but flopped, so I guess you can say my hatred is laced with a bit of jealousy. That being said you cannot dispute the popularity of the show and its entertainment factor. I however do not like the show. I don't approve of what it stands for and the messages it portrays to its younger audiences.
Point in case, my 13 year old cousins idol is the "Situation"...A guy known for his elaborate haircuts, 6 pack abs and knocking himself unconscious by beating his own head against a wall during an argument with other cast members in the house. I find this alarming...when I was 13 my hero's were men of substance...my grandfather, a man who came to this country with $17 to his name and worked his entire life so that now he can have over a million in the bank, or Micheal Jordan, a man who transcended the NBA and sports in general. Not some drunk fool who "gets with" a lot of woman at clubs...What has the "Situation" ever done to improve society...or even attempt to...Dancing with the stars????
I also think the Jersey Shore promotes unhealthy and violent relationships. The star couple of the show (Ronnie and Sammi) are known for their terrible fights, breakups and make ups. Heaven knows what we are not shown and what the cameras don't record...This puts the wrong idea of a healthy relationship in the heads of young teens who might just be starting out in the dating word...which is already tough enough without seeing these two every week blow up at each other. It promotes non stop partying and binge drinking...all they do on the show is go out and drink, stay home and drink, go to the beach...already inebriated. I mean "Snookie" (who was arrested for being a publicly drunken fool on the beach) was paid 32 grand by Rutgers University to be the key note speaker at their most recent Graduation. Snookie, a girl who's probably never stepped foot into a college classroom...but I'm sure has stepped stumbling foot into many a frat house or dorm rooms. And her most memorable quote from her speech? " Study hard, but party harder" Like really? This is just absolutely ridiculous to me. Oh and last years previous graduation key not speaker at Rutgers...Nobel Prize Winner Toni Morrison...got paid less to speak than she did...That just shows you the true price of an education...and Rutgers priority scale...
The show also glorifies violence...every episode there are fights, and not just arguments but fist fights...The very first time I heard about the shows success was after an infamous fight at a club where one of the female characters got punched straight in the face by one of the male characters....last time I checked that was illegal...but yet after that episode was when the show gained the height of its popularity...Come ON!
Personally I just think the Jersey Shore is an abomination and glorifies people who don't deserve the attention. Especially with the economy the way it is and unemployment being so high its a shame that these bums are being paid millions of dollars to "GTL" (Gym, Tanning, Laundry). This is exactly whats wrong with our society and our country, its exactly whats wrong with MTV who has now done a complete 180 from Music Television from its conception to Shitty Television such as Jersey Shore and Teen Moms. I guess you can say my review of the Jersey Shore is not a very good one. This show is the exact reason why NJ and Reality TV get a bad wrap...I mean the state of NJ banned the shooting of the show, that's why they had to go abroad over to Italy to shoot the most recent season. They're not wanted in their own country nor the initial state the show was meant to take place in. I get it, viewers want to see sex, hott guys and girls making out and tons of controversy...but to what extent...and at what cost?
Point in case, my 13 year old cousins idol is the "Situation"...A guy known for his elaborate haircuts, 6 pack abs and knocking himself unconscious by beating his own head against a wall during an argument with other cast members in the house. I find this alarming...when I was 13 my hero's were men of substance...my grandfather, a man who came to this country with $17 to his name and worked his entire life so that now he can have over a million in the bank, or Micheal Jordan, a man who transcended the NBA and sports in general. Not some drunk fool who "gets with" a lot of woman at clubs...What has the "Situation" ever done to improve society...or even attempt to...Dancing with the stars????
I also think the Jersey Shore promotes unhealthy and violent relationships. The star couple of the show (Ronnie and Sammi) are known for their terrible fights, breakups and make ups. Heaven knows what we are not shown and what the cameras don't record...This puts the wrong idea of a healthy relationship in the heads of young teens who might just be starting out in the dating word...which is already tough enough without seeing these two every week blow up at each other. It promotes non stop partying and binge drinking...all they do on the show is go out and drink, stay home and drink, go to the beach...already inebriated. I mean "Snookie" (who was arrested for being a publicly drunken fool on the beach) was paid 32 grand by Rutgers University to be the key note speaker at their most recent Graduation. Snookie, a girl who's probably never stepped foot into a college classroom...but I'm sure has stepped stumbling foot into many a frat house or dorm rooms. And her most memorable quote from her speech? " Study hard, but party harder" Like really? This is just absolutely ridiculous to me. Oh and last years previous graduation key not speaker at Rutgers...Nobel Prize Winner Toni Morrison...got paid less to speak than she did...That just shows you the true price of an education...and Rutgers priority scale...
The show also glorifies violence...every episode there are fights, and not just arguments but fist fights...The very first time I heard about the shows success was after an infamous fight at a club where one of the female characters got punched straight in the face by one of the male characters....last time I checked that was illegal...but yet after that episode was when the show gained the height of its popularity...Come ON!
Personally I just think the Jersey Shore is an abomination and glorifies people who don't deserve the attention. Especially with the economy the way it is and unemployment being so high its a shame that these bums are being paid millions of dollars to "GTL" (Gym, Tanning, Laundry). This is exactly whats wrong with our society and our country, its exactly whats wrong with MTV who has now done a complete 180 from Music Television from its conception to Shitty Television such as Jersey Shore and Teen Moms. I guess you can say my review of the Jersey Shore is not a very good one. This show is the exact reason why NJ and Reality TV get a bad wrap...I mean the state of NJ banned the shooting of the show, that's why they had to go abroad over to Italy to shoot the most recent season. They're not wanted in their own country nor the initial state the show was meant to take place in. I get it, viewers want to see sex, hott guys and girls making out and tons of controversy...but to what extent...and at what cost?
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Intro to Un-Reality TV
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