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Obviously, I'm going to watch, because I can't resist, and by the end of the season, I'll be so up-to-here with the bullshit theater that is televised dating game shows that I'll become angry with myself. And so it goes. More »
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Not to show our age, but there was once a time when MTV's The Real World represented a certain progressiveness that made it both entertaining and educational to watch (hell, we once donated a piggy bank's worth of change to Pedro Zamora's health care fund!). The show wasn't an STD relay-race or a flipbook of horrendously offensive stereotypes; You could tell the cast members apart and not just by the size of their breasts (seriously, the only difference between the current season's Shauvon and Tricia, who sport the same trashy dye-job is Shauvon's Double-D's). Though the "characters" fought just as often, the brawls usually stemmed from issues larger than themselves (like when Season One's Kevin and Julie clashed over racism) not over whether a girl fell off a chair because she was drunk or because somebody didn't catch her. That said, we're hypocrites because we still watch every season, if only to remind ourselves that we're too old to be on the show. Still, last night's episode pissed us off. More »
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