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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]


Jesse - Jan 03, 2008 12:08:59 pm PST #3020 of 23273
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I love the ads for it, for sure. I think it (the Carson Kressly version) might be on Lifetime or something....


lisah - Jan 03, 2008 12:09:39 pm PST #3021 of 23273
Punishingly Intricate

I think it might be on Lifetime or something....

It is! I just this minute so an ad for it on the Fug site.


Jesse - Jan 03, 2008 12:11:41 pm PST #3022 of 23273
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

That's why I'm afraid I'll never watch it, because I don't watch anything else on Lifetime. But I mean to!


Jars - Jan 03, 2008 12:16:04 pm PST #3023 of 23273

Also, the line up of all sorts of women in all shapes and sizes in their underwear (or knickers!)

I know! Real, actual women! Nekkid! Jibbly bits and all! How rarely women's bits are allowed to be jibbly on tv these days.


Morgana - Jan 03, 2008 1:19:52 pm PST #3024 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

Several posts upthread, there were comments about Tyson Beckford looking different. I didn't see the program, but could his changed look be due to the car accident in 2005?

It was a horrifying accident that will be forever imprinted in model Tyson Beckford's memory: a Mack truck ramming his red pickup off the road. Beckford found himself trapped inside the burning vehicle, and five weeks later, he's still recovering.

"He just pushed me right into the light pole and then the engine burst into flames," Beckford recalled. "My lip was busted, one of my teeth was knocked out and my eye was swollen shut. My nose was fractured and the blood was squirting out of my face."

(That's from ExtraTV, on 7/13/05)

I remember seeing him talk about it on Oprah, and it looked pretty horrific.


Vortex - Jan 03, 2008 1:23:01 pm PST #3025 of 23273
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

"My lip was busted

you can definitely see where his lip looks a bit . . . off in the closeup. But, I saw him in October, and he was still fine. I have a pic, but it's a bad angle, and his face looks really long.


Sue - Jan 04, 2008 3:31:13 am PST #3026 of 23273
hip deep in pie

So, I'm very enamoured of How to Look Good Naked. You guys have it yet?

I've been watching the British version in Canada and it's amazing. It's great to see a makeover show that doesn't transform a person into something they're not in a week, but takes time to work with them to learn to love who they are.


JZ - Jan 04, 2008 4:09:53 am PST #3027 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.

At six in the morning I'm having no trouble getting through Tim's Take.

Ouch ouch ouch:

Christian, I suspect, will have a polarizing effect on our viewers. I write this largely out of projection, because I alternate between wanting to give him a big hug and wanting to give him a sobering slap. In a manner that evoked the discovery of penicillin, he believed that the material he chose (hundreds of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup wrappers), coupled with his design (a mini-dress with a halter and choker), would ensure his win.

Furthermore, he was “finished” hours before the deadline. When I found him in the workroom gloating over his achievement and offering spare-time critiques to his fellow designers, I pulled him aside to suggest that he consider giving his design some more time and thought. “I certainly don’t think that you’re going home (and he won the last challenge, so he had immunity), but I’m not as confident as you are that this design is the winner.” If looks could really kill, I would have been a goner.


sumi - Jan 04, 2008 4:42:53 am PST #3028 of 23273
Art Crawl!!!

Well, Tim was right - it was enough to be safe but not enough to win.


Vortex - Jan 04, 2008 6:26:16 am PST #3029 of 23273
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

He could have so easily added some gold to it or something. His critiques were not given in a helpful manner.