Sorry, Captain. I'm real sorry. I shoulda kept better care of her. Usually she lets me know when something's wrong. Maybe she did, I just wasn't paying attention...

Kaylee ,'Out Of Gas'


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]


kat perez - May 14, 2013 6:55:06 pm PDT #20628 of 23273
"We have trust issues." Mylar

( continues...) Conference 101 dancer. I don’t think she will make the show, but maybe she can bring more when she’s not injured? Wow. I can’t believe they are putting her through to choreo. They’d have sent her straight home for not being good enough if she hadn’t fucked up her knee. Mmmmph.

Dance Break III: Dance! - Wanted to see more of Asian ballerina girl for sure. The blonde is whatever.

Morris Isby – I just don’t like him. He’s not good enough to be that arrogant. They’ve had way better b-boys on the show before. Eh. I’m not impressed. The elbow spin was dope. I’ll give him that. That’s about it, though.

Dance Break IV tha Streets: Liked all the Montage street dancer kids better than him, especially the girl in the plaid and the boy in the yellow sweats? Hype.

Armin – Dammit, Russians. Oh, wow. I just can’t. I cannot with the rapping and the video and the swimsuit models washing cars. This kid is hilarious! And as for dancing, one look at him and I know he can smash it. Wow. He is everything. Sharp. The feet are amazeballs. He is bringing me that Pasha-ness that I do enjoy. I’m all in for Armin. I love that Mary shut down all conversation and passed him straight through to Vegas. Excellent. Armin is the business.

Great 18ers/Eric and Lorenzo – Don’t care about your work with the kids. Bring It. So I see that they are trying to be very LXD. I see them, but they are soo derivative of other, better crews. And none of them individually are good enough to make the show. The judges totally bs’ed them, “We don’t want to take you away from your world and your work in schools.” Umm, they are not good enough to make this show. Just come real with these kids.

Choreo round – It’s Sasha. Yay! Oh, she is going to give it to them. And Marko. Kiddies, if they are All Stars this year, I will be so happy. As expected, Morris Isby bombed choreo. Good because I hated him. Go home. And Wounded Knee goes to Vegas. Huh. OK. I still think she’ll be gone after the first couple of rounds.

That’s it? Where’s my two hour premiere. Boo. I don’t wanna wait ‘til tomorrow night for Detroit and Twitch on the judges panel. Whoo hoo! I loved that even more than my walk in closet.


le nubian - May 14, 2013 9:35:50 pm PDT #20629 of 23273
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

The Voice.

I have a serious serious hate-on for Josiah, ESPECIALLY after seeing Robin Thicke perform. I mean he pales in comparison to Thicke and he so wants to be him. That has to be my biggest disappointment. I want him eliminated so badly I can taste it. Anyone else I either like or don't care.

This show was made all the more suspenseful for me because I had no idea how many people they were eliminating. At first I thought it was 8, then 4, then I didn't know WTF was going on. I just got back from out of town for the weekend, that's my excuse.


Jesse - May 15, 2013 3:14:17 am PDT #20630 of 23273
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Man, I loved that Robin Thicke song.


le nubian - May 15, 2013 6:38:46 am PDT #20631 of 23273
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I bought it on Amazon right after it was performed.


Tom Scola - May 15, 2013 6:41:12 am PDT #20632 of 23273
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Gordon Ramsay walks off of Kitchen Nightmares because the restaurant owners were too crazy: [link]

The owners were too crazy for Gordon Ramsay.


Amy - May 15, 2013 6:51:09 am PDT #20633 of 23273
Because books.

That's hardcore.


Jessica - May 15, 2013 6:54:33 am PDT #20634 of 23273
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Buzzfeed has screengrabs of the epic Facebook/Yelp/Reddit tantrum:

[link]


le nubian - May 15, 2013 7:10:36 am PDT #20635 of 23273
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Tom,

Those have to be the most toxic people in the U.S. I got hives just watching that shit. Gordon Ramsay needs an award for dealing with them as long as he did. After 60 minutes, I would have bailed.


Amy - May 15, 2013 7:16:29 am PDT #20636 of 23273
Because books.

That Buzzfeed piece is a thing of beauty.


brenda m - May 15, 2013 8:01:28 am PDT #20637 of 23273
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

I saw that. Those people were seriously nuts. And just basically horrible.