I feel like I’m ODing on all the crappy reality TV shows these days. It’s as if all the creative minds have left Hollywood, and the only recourse is to tag along with disfunctional 2nd rate celebs in the hopes of them doing something outrageous for the camera. Which of course, they always do. I get the feeling all this reality TV is a lot like extreme sex. It starts off with a fascination with swinging, and then the next thing you know you are into 4 ways, then bondage, and then girls kicking your crotch, just so you can get off. Next thing you know, all that guilty pleasure, just isn’t very pleasurable anymore.
But I will say that there is one glimmer of hope: All those "educational" shows (I guess you can call these reality shows as well) you see on Discovery, or the History Channel or National Geographic. I just finished up a good marathon of educational shows, being enlightened to weird creatures like the Chupacabra, visiting the ancient temples of China, marvelling at the historical event of the 300 Spartans, and finally catching up on all the Shark Week madness I Tivoed. I feel like I absorbed more information this past 48 hours than I did all through college. And Doritos as well. I tore through a bulk size bag I picked up at Costco. My fingers have a layer of orange crust on them that I don’t think could be surgically removed. Which I’m sure one day if my body was found like this by future archaeologists and they were studying me, they would spend a whole TV show on the mystery of the man with orange fingers.
So i still got a few more good shows to go. Wanna know what they are? Hit the jump!
