<![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real - Jezebel Comments]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real - Jezebel Comments]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> So with all the KC girls here....who calls for a happy hour? I didn't realize there were so many readers here in the good ol' midwest! I'd love to get drunk with other jezzies...I just didn't know there were so many here!

warwickbeloved

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> @themidget: Yep, still living on the MO side.
At least I don't live in Lee's Summit like most of my friends from Blue Springs HS. They are also into "keeping up with the Joneses."
@foodandshoes: I heart Hyde Park, I looked there before I bought in Valentine, but it was either way overpriced or total fixer-upper stock. I'm handy, but not that handy.

Pterodactyl

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> @AndYourLittleDogToo:You too? (I'm a Viking) My mom will never shut up about this. What the hell am I going to do with three bedrooms? I don't even have ONE now. @jenndavo: Haaa. I am (was? not really?) a "JoCoHo". No one I ever knew lived in a million dollar house. Come to think of it, I never saw many people who fit the "trophy wife" mold either. But maybe I didn't get to Blue Valley enough.

mylittleonetrickpony

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> @warwickbeloved and all other Kansas Citians,: Woot! All the KC love on Jezz today. I am from the Missouri side and went to a certain all girls French school and the people I grew up with always looked askance at Johnson County. As if that's where you purchased a house if you couldn't buy one along Ward Parkway or in Brookside. I grew up in Hyde Park in the mid-70s which was totally bohemian KCAI grads and gay daddies and the kid on my block whose parents lived at opposite ends of the block and she shuttled back and forth. The neighborhood is now half-million dollar houses and half crack houses so go figure. I live in Oregon now and people can't get their heads around the fact that I didn't grow up on a farm or that there are blacks and gays in "Kansas." When I tell them about the debutante ball, their heads really want to explode.

foodandshoes is back to la vie quotidienne

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> @Oh No I Di'n't.:

Oh No I Di'n't.

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> Also, there's no way in hell I'd want my high school years on film. No. Fucking. Way.

Oh No I Di'n't.

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> @virginiawoolf: Wasn't it American High? That show was amazing and I thought the exact same thing.

Oh No I Di'n't.

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> @Pterodactyl: Most of my actual friends from BVNW that stayed in KC now live in Midtown :-) I'm guessing you live on the MO side?

The truly awesome thing is that most of the people that I knew in HS live out south down the street from their parents and are still competing with one another to see who can have the nicest car and house. Some things never change. I left in 1998 and haven't even thought about moving back to Overland Park. Making fun of JoCo is an art form for me.

$98K would not get you a nice house at all in Johnson County, even with the real estate market the way it is. A truly nice house by JoCo standards would start probably around $300K, and you would probably be pretty far south at that price.

themidget

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> @Miss Smith Drank Your Vodka: My freshman year roommate actually said that to me when I made a comment about her father buying her a new car after she drunkenly totaled her old one. Where, exactly, was she supposed to drive it sans license?

ameliaearhart

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> I watched it and was really hoping that I'd enjoy it. I liked the fact that these were "normal" girls - but something failed in the execution. It just didn't connect the way it should have, imo.

pilar

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> @jenndavo: Hahaha! I'm going to have to look for this. I still love hating on JoCo, it never gets old. Grew up east of the city (not much better) and am now a sanctimonious midtown KC'er. $98K sounds really cheap for a
JoCo house, maybe now or soon but not in the last few years. I have a 2 BR midtown condo for $110K that's probably worth less today, so I'm happy.

Did you live in the 'Dotte?

Pterodactyl

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> The first time I saw a promo for this show, I thought, gee, that looks like my freshman locker area and that looks like my high school atrium, and oh my god that's my high school. I graduated way before these girls, but still. I'm weirded out by it.

themidget

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> Um, and not to sound creepy but there's something about teenage girls - I could watch them talk and throw tantrums and paint toenails all day long.

Hey! Sofia Coppola made a career of it!

ShoplifterOfTheWorld

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> This is the one with singing basketball players, right?

ShoplifterOfTheWorld

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> It sounds interesting because most "reality" television doesn't invest that much in its "characters". Four years with no return is alot for any producers. I might give it a try.

shananigans

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> @jenndavo: word to the JoCo stereotypes. I actually went to BVNW, and we used to joke that the defining trait of a Johnson County kid was believing that dyed blonde hair and a new SUV were your God-given rights.

identitysynopsis

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> I'm from Johnson County. I didn't go to Northwest; I went to North (graduated in 1995).

I've been in NY for over 7 years and my mom still thinks stories of 3 bd houses (with yards and pools) for less than 1 bd apts will convince me to move back to KS.

AndYourLittleDogToo

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> @delicatedisarray: After seeing one commercial I set my DVR.

I think this'll be interesting if they tell stories the right way.

chouflur

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> I loved the commercials for it. Giving the marketing person there a raise.

delicatedisarray

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> i cant wait for this show. im hoping it will be an observational style documentary - not the sensationalist crap that they have on VH1 and Network TV. (*cough* that i usually watch *cough*) and i forgot to set my DVR tonight, dammit!

militia

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> I read jezebel every day, but this is the first time I've posted. I went to high school on the Missouri side of Kansas City. The way we generally felt about Kansans was that they were either farmers, or rich, bored and snobby. We Missourians on the other hand, are either farmers, or were in gangs, selling drugs, or running meth labs. The weird thing about Kansas City is that it's split in half like that. JoCo is the OC of the midwest, especially as far as reality televison is concerned. Million dollar mansions, trophy wives, and debt...all in a nice suburban package. I'd like to see a reality show about the crackheads my midtown neighborhood is nestled in.

warwickbeloved

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> @SBJ: My mother used to watch Survivor with my younger brother, so they could discus what assholes all the contestants were, and figure out ways to not become one.
But showing Juno to Jamie Lynn seemed to have the opposite effect, so tread carefully.

BlondeGrlz is having a BlondeBoyz!

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> @jenndavo:
Wow, a new 2 bd condo in my part of OC (not even the fancy part of OC!) runs around 350k-400k. 3 bd homes in my (old) neighborhood start from the mid-500k. Most low-middle classers end up buying homes way out into the Valley -- then paying $$$ in gas to make the commute. Terrible.

Reality is neither universal nor entertaining. Yet, TV is supposed to be entertaining. And as expected, reality TV shows prove to be neither real nor very entertaining. This "reality-tv" show that promises to be more "real" --? Meh, I don't buy it.

eri401

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> So, are moms with young daughters meant to watch this as a sort of bonding, discussion-opener type thing or what? I mean, if it will have some USE, then sure, if not...the fuck is the point?

SBJ

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> @jenndavo: Bet. Your same Texas house in LA (like, on the coner of Crip and Blood) would cost you about $300K.

ceejeemcbeegee

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> @jenndavo: Head to the sticks in MI or IN. We have 4,200 sq.ft. with gardens, pool and historic status for $120,000. Gorgeous place. On the downside the best place to eat in town is Applebee's and the movie theatre shows nothing but mainstream Hollywood crap with an emphasis on Disney. And the closest real entertainment is more than an hour's drive away. Win some, lose some.

Gretchen

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> @misssgolightly: I know, I shouldn't complain. I've lived in two of the least desirable places on the planet, so I should expect low to middling housing prices.

jenndavo

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> I have no desire to watch this program, ever. I teach in a HS and see it every day. Do. Not. Want. More.

Gretchen

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> @jenndavo: $98,000 would buy you a piece of plywood where I'm from (Long Island). I am jealous of your parents and should probably move to Kansas.
Why do I still think I'll be able to survive on a teacher's salary on Long Island when I graduate? Oh, cause I'm crazy.

misssgolightly

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> @virginiawoolf: Also, about every third Frontline sounds like this.

Lizawithazee

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> @evier: I just discovered I don't have WE either. Why do I keep seeing previews for this then? But I did see there's an Intervention on tonight, so I won't be too sad.

BlondeGrlz is having a BlondeBoyz!

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> @ceejeemcbeegee: Dude, you ain't kiddin'. I was thinking of buying a condo here in Texas to save on rent, but my two-bedroom rental unit runs around $130,000 for just 1,000 SF. My parents bought their four-bedroom house just outside of Kansas City last year for $98,000. WTF?

jenndavo

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> @jenndavo: Ha! I can't imagine what a million dollar home in Kansas must look like! How many square feet? 10k? 15k?

ceejeemcbeegee

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> @sequined:

Pop rocks!?! WTF! Was this girl getting her bj advice from Cosmo? That sounds painful to me and I don't even have a peen.

nowimpissed

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> @SammyKitty: Well, we didn't have much where I grew up, so we directed our energies toward hating those who did. Kansans kinda have to make their own fun. :)

jenndavo

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> a href="#c4627575">jenndavo: Ha! That is exactly what we called them. Kansans are pretty original.

SammyKitty

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> Ugh. It is a good premise, but looking at the picture and hearing about JoCo...it just does not represent "real" highschool, at least to me. I went to a very diverse highschool, both racially and economically speaking. Sorry, I may just pass on this. I would honestly rather watch True Life on MTV.

BitchIsTheNewBlack

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> @jenndavo: You're from that neck of the woods, right?

@boogieoogieoogie: From what I understand/have noticed, Olathe seems to be becoming more and more "urban" (ie, fewer well-to-do white people).

There is a gated community of rich motherfuckers in Wichita, but they don't have their own high school.

TruculentandUnreliable

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> Actually, WaPo, I would rather sit with my great aunt and flip through a family photo album with my great aunt Edna than "cruise the mall." Gotta love that hometown newspaper.

bmorefool

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> @boogieoogieoogie: No way would our Laguna Beach society film in Wichita -- too poor, too diverse, too real and too representative of a Real America.

jenndavo

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> @Hooplehead: @jenndavo: When I heard it was in KS I knew it had to be JOCO. I thought it was maybe in a well to do Wichita part but I leaned heavily in favor of OOOOOOlathe. I wonder which school it was. Seriously, I went to college where 80% was from that area they idolize the Laguna Beach...ok so maybe i do too a teensie weensie bit but they have the money to go completely over to the dark side.

Boogie Down in London Town

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> @Miss Smith Drank Your Vodka: God, isn't it sad? I remember my oh-so-snappy high school (about 20 minutes north of Overland Park) referring to these girls as "JoCoHos." We were poor, they weren't ... give us a break!

jenndavo

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> @sequined: Or the one freshman who's gym locker was next to mine who would parade around in a lacy thong, and loudly proclaim how her knees had "SUCH BAD RUGBURN FROM LAST NIGHT WHEN RYAN CAME OVER!!! *giggle*".
Jesus, girlfriend, there are other blowjob positions you can try that don't involve rugburn.

misssgolightly

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> @sequined: My sophormore year of PE class was basically a Sex Ed class for me. Two of my senior-class friends were in it with me (having flunked it their sophomore years) and I regularly hung out with them at PE. They were also pretty damn right promiscuous, so the things they talked about blew my virgin mind.

Miss Smith Drank Your Vodka

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> @hugnkiss: Yes! That was it. I feel pretty dumb now that I realize how obvious the name was.

virginiawoolf

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> @jenndavo: Welcome to the JoCo, bitch?

Miss Smith Drank Your Vodka

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> liz gately (creator of the hills and newport harbor) is from my home town. and these shows are very much like my hs experience. pretty disgusting, right? ah, the beauty of tivo. i will fast forward through the boring parts, or just delete it if it's lame.

wigglepuppy

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> @misssgolightly: Oh yeah, some of that might be kinda funny. I vividly remember hearing a girl in my PE class (a cheerleader!) casually mention how pop rocks really spiced up her blow jobs. We were freshmen or sophomores, and I doubt I had my John Krasinski surprise/wtf facial expression quite mastered, but that's how I was feeling. I'd maybe watch to see how true things like that were.

sequined

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> @virginiawoolf: American High, perhaps? [en.wikipedia.org]

hugnkiss

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> This show is the kind of thing you know you should want to watch but don't. I mean... I did high school. I watched 500 other kids do all this in real time.

sequined

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> @Smackdown: Word. My HS experience was so boring, I would NEVER want to watch it again.
I want to see behind the scenes of the slutty cheerleaders/cokeheads/that one girl who gave random guys blowjobs at every party/druggies from my school, though.

misssgolightly

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> "My name is Suzy and mine is a story of a girl who started freshman year confused and unsure of herself and four years later really found out who she was."

How terrifying for them. Can you imagine taking about "who you really are" at 17 and having to watch it now? I think I've evolved a bit since that time and "who I am" has, too.

ArmCandy

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> Sounds realistic to me. I remember spending a lot of time in HS being bored out of my skull and waiting for my "real life" to begin. (College, employment, any time I could get the hell out of my parents' house.) There were certainly Big! Dramatic! Developments! but not every week. And probably not enough to keep anyone entertained for long.

Hooplehead

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> @ceejeemcbeegee: Okay, I say this knowing that it'll crack you up, but ... in Kansas, Overland Park (well, Johnson County) IS our O.C. It's a very well-to-do suburb, a bedroom community full of master-planned neighborhoods and million-dollar homes. It's hard to believe that wealthy people CHOOSE to live in Kansas but, when they do, they head to JoCo.

jenndavo

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> They're totally ripping off a show I used to watch on PBS. I forgot what it was called, but it was exactly this premise and was on at least 5 years ago.

virginiawoolf

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> I liked the version with Jerry Lee Lewis and Mamie Van Doren better.

BOO_BOO_HOFF

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> I'd still like to see it just to give it a shot. It's an interesting idea. Too bad I don't have WE.

evier

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> This sounds like the best show I have no desire to watch.

Smackdown

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> Has anyone seen the commercials for this? They say something like "This is the story of high school, and we won't be bursting into song and dance." Cracked me up.

Also, yes, in case it wasn't clear already (reality show! High school! Girls!), I will be watching this.

BadenBaden

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> A pity that reality programming needs to be scripted to be engaging.

nyobserver

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> And I thought it was hard out here for a pimp. Death! Divorce Bitches got it rough.

Josh Evans

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> Whatevs. Still going to TiVo it.

What is it that makes people thing these girls lives should be all uber-dramatic 24/7? This ain't the OC.

ceejeemcbeegee

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> I dunno. I hated high school. I'm not sure I want to sit down and relive it, even through somebody else.

hortense

]]> <![CDATA[<i>High School Confidential</i>: A Reality Show That Keeps It Real]]> I think the reviews have saved me space on TiVo...

sybann

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