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'The Message'


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]


bon bon - Feb 01, 2008 5:43:45 am PST #3295 of 23273
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

MMaS is really really growing on me. I think a lot of shows I really enjoy the first season the best. The relationships among the models remind me a bit of Project Runway first season. As for the competition, Perry and Shannon seem the top two for me. I loved Perry with the accent and the mustache.

Did anyone see the commercial for the top Bravo moments? I had to rewind Santino's Tim Gunn robot several times. LOVE!


Lee - Feb 01, 2008 5:49:06 am PST #3296 of 23273
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I did the same thing, bon bon.

I'm also getting to like MMaS a lot. I watched all of it this weekend, thanks to all the talk here, and thought the tasks this episode were great,


Toddson - Feb 01, 2008 12:35:14 pm PST #3297 of 23273
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

They've been running these promos for Paradise Island, making it sound like it was a big hit the first time around. This is the reality show with lots of purportedly good looking people lying around in the sun ... that was cancelled about four weeks in.


brenda m - Feb 01, 2008 12:46:42 pm PST #3298 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

Paradise Island or Paradise Hotel? Because Paradise Drunk Asshole Hotel kind of rocked. Very Lord of the Flies, only with daquiris.


le nubian - Feb 01, 2008 12:52:27 pm PST #3299 of 23273
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Paradise Hotel!!!


Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 01, 2008 12:59:20 pm PST #3300 of 23273
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

I was wondering if I'd missed hearing about some Amazons Gone Wild reality show...


Toddson - Feb 01, 2008 1:15:22 pm PST #3301 of 23273
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Paradise Hotel! sorry ... I watched the first one and then gave up on it. There didn't seem to be any rules or any end point to it.

I did, however, have this vision of a few years in the future some station accountant looks at the accounts and sees entries for Paradise Hotel ... and it turns out the same people have been hanging around there (Lord of the Flies! with booze and sex!) getting more and more dissipated. Also possibly starting a new generation ....


kat perez - Feb 01, 2008 4:44:10 pm PST #3302 of 23273
"We have trust issues." Mylar

On MMaS, while I think Perry is very entertaining and hunky, I looooove Ronnie. He is so sweet. (Although the Ronnie/Ben damage control - "No, we're just friends. Really. No, really really." - was a little bit much).

I thought this week's challenges were really interesting. The group photos were lovely and the art installation/runway show was weird but fascinating. And the real runway show finally had them in clothing. Was this the first time? Maybe, no? The first week was the thong incident; the second week was Heatherette (basically naked with glitter); then last week was the pony play.

And I don't know what the hell that professors and school girls party was really all about, but if Ronnie can be my human anatomy teacher, then I am all in.

Man, Tyra just gets worse and worse in comparison.


meara - Feb 01, 2008 4:52:42 pm PST #3303 of 23273

Yeah, MTV has Top Model on marathon again, at the moment, and seeing them after seeing the MMASM....yeah. Though partly it's the guys, who look so good, the MMASM girls are meh for the most part (though I do like Shannon). I have no idea what the professor/schoolgirl thing was about, but it looked like fun!!


Amy - Feb 01, 2008 5:08:46 pm PST #3304 of 23273
Because books.

I have no idea what the professor/schoolgirl thing was about, but it looked like fun!!

I guess you have to make your own fun when you're not allowed to watch TV.