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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]


JZ - Mar 08, 2013 2:46:57 pm PST #20399 of 23273
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

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.)


Theodosia - Mar 09, 2013 2:44:59 am PST #20400 of 23273
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

OMG, I forgot he was on Pushing Daisies! Damn!


kat perez - Mar 13, 2013 9:02:24 pm PDT #20401 of 23273
"We have trust issues." Mylar

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!


le nubian - Mar 13, 2013 9:52:22 pm PDT #20402 of 23273
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

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.


Jesse - Mar 14, 2013 6:26:24 am PDT #20403 of 23273
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

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.


le nubian - Mar 14, 2013 6:48:20 am PDT #20404 of 23273
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

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.


Jesse - Mar 14, 2013 9:06:36 am PDT #20405 of 23273
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

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.


Jesse - Mar 14, 2013 9:12:41 am PDT #20406 of 23273
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Also, I just looked and saw that that Survivor guy's other uncle (other than the Survivor one) was kicked off Big Brother for flipping out and head-butting someone. That family should find a better way to make money.


Morgana - Mar 14, 2013 11:20:48 pm PDT #20407 of 23273
"I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance.” – The 13 Clocks, James Thurber

Yay on The Sing Off news! I find I'm not really looking forward to the next round of The Voice... maybe if I just record it and fast-forward through the inevitable sob-stories (my mother has cancer/my father died when I was young/I quit my job for this chance/I spent 6 months in the hospital and almost died, etc. etc. etc.) and get to the actual singing and bitching amongst the judges it won't be as annoying.


Stephanie - Mar 15, 2013 5:36:12 pm PDT #20408 of 23273
Trust my rage