Non-Fiction TV: I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own
This thread is for non-fiction TV, including but not limited to reality television (So You Think You Can Dance, Top Chef: Masters, Project Runway), documentaries (The History Channel, The Discovery Channel), and sundry (Expedition Africa, Mythbusters), et al. [NAFDA]
Survivor: Does it look to anyone else like Sherri is wearing mascara? Her lashes are so dark and thick.
Also, wow. So much for loyalty. Although I can't believe Laura didn't see it coming at all.
Project Runway: I loved Michelle and Amanda's dress! And I was really surprised at the double aufing. Maybe they wanted to keep it to an even number for another week?
I'm watching a ANTM rerun (Toccarra's season) and it is the go-see episode. One season, PLEASE, make all the models have to visit a plus size designer.
Survivor: Does it look to anyone else like Sherri is wearing mascara? Her lashes are so dark and thick.
I think she got her lashes dyed before they went--I also think she might have tattooed eyeliner.
I was not sorry to see Shamar go and I would have voted Laura "No Muscles" The Waif off myself.
Mike White may be the most-famous-in-his-own-nongameshow-right of the contestants so far.
Thanks to Pushing Daisies, I now always think of him as "Just some guy! Some guy who sure likes candy!" Before, I always thought of him as Mel White's son (which is kind of unfair, since I love his screenplays, but as a reader I "met" Mel first and that's how I filed Mike.)(Until Pushing Daisies.)
OMG, I forgot he was on Pushing Daisies! Damn!
Idol is making me so sad this season, I can't even talk about it. All the guys are terrible. Full stop. Three of the girls are great and two are better than all the boys yet still terrible in their own right. And tonight Niki Minaj didn't even bother to show up on time and then babbled about Aunt Jemima syrup and leather mini-dresses and totally random shit all night and the only redeeming moments were Mariah's supreme bitch face when Ryan had to announce that Miss Minaj was not in the building and start the show without her and Keith Urban taking a sniff of her cup to figure out what she was drinking. Ryan also made an allusion to the fact that she might have been toked up, so there's your quality family programming, America. You're welcome.
In happier news, NBC is bringing back The Sing Off. Yay!
Survivor was really fucked up tonight. I think this is a permanent stain on the show and makes me much less interested in ever watching Survivor again.
In happier news, NBC is bringing back The Sing Off. Yay!
Awesome!
le nubian -- what happened on Survivor? I don't watch it, but wondered from the ads.
Jesse,
essentially, one of the returning players lost his entire shit last night. Probst clearly thought "oh this will bring in ratings, what a thrill", but the player was not right mental health wise and it was true the FIRST time he was on Survivor. I found it to be really exploitative.
Even if they wanted to take a risk on casting him, there were other ways for him to have left the game than what he did. Survivor has not been playing by their own rule book and this is what we get.
Yikes.
Oh! Which reminds me of a somewhat related amazing thing I heard last week: Mike White was on Fresh Air, and talking about his dad and The Amazing Race, and said that Mel basically failed the mental health tests, and the people giving the results said that he basically scored
like young black men from certain cities
-- that he was that paranoid (because of all of the death threats he got from anti-gay religious people). I thought that was a stunning thing to hear, and wished Terry Gross had gotten into
that
more.
And not actually related to reality tv, but still.