By Steve Rhodes
1. If you, like me, watch The Hills – don’t be afraid to admit it – you will love The Hills According To Me, which must be a total mindfuck to LC, Audrina and the gang, seeing as how it is MTV itself viciously satirizing its own show, as well as an example of the meta-meta media universe we now live in.
Here’s a sample:
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2. I don’t understand this commercial.
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First, why are they using cell phones to communicate? One microphone would do the job, right. Second, a total bogus presentation of legislation as unnecessarily complicated. “Need clean water, guys? Aye!”
Well, you know, just how are you gonna get clean water, firefighters? The water won’t clean itself.
3. I’m a huge Dr. Drew fan and he’s got a fascinating if squeamish new show, Sex . . . With Mom and Dad, in which he moderates therapy sessions with teens and their folks talking about . . . sex.
But geez, this is . . . wrong.
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4. I watched The Real Housewives of Orange County and its New York City sequel with hateful fascination, but I just don’t know if I can invest emotionally in the new Atlanta version. Two of the four wives (out of five) are the spouses of professional athletes and that is just . . . uninteresting.
5. TV show mash-up idea: Saving Nancy Grace.
6. I know this is old, but in case you missed it, George Foreman is a grillionaire.
7. New episodes of Saving Grace won’t air until March, but I just started watching at the tail end of the last season. I have to say that Holly Hunter’s Grace Hanadarko is a compelling character, but the show is kind of ruined for me by the angel. It would be more interesting if not for this contrivance.
8. Home Movies reruns are back on Comedy Central, and that’s a very good thing.
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Also recommended: Dr. Katz reruns. Still in Squigglevision.
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9. Metalocalypse rules.
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10. Is there anything Mighty Putty can’t do? And it’s not even a glue!
Posted on October 20, 2008