Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.

Andrew ,'Damage'


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]


askye - Jul 08, 2007 3:15:19 pm PDT #563 of 23273
Thrive to spite them

Is anyone watching Big Brother right now? One of the girls is having a complete breakdown because of her picture! She's crying when they are all looking at them AND crying in the confessional. Sobbing, tears flowing just utterly devesated.


Jesse - Jul 08, 2007 3:56:24 pm PDT #564 of 23273
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Yeah, that was hysterical. What a fucking idiot.

Danielle and Dick just make me kind of sad for both of them so far.

Yeah, even more so after tonight's ep.


Jesse - Jul 08, 2007 5:02:39 pm PDT #565 of 23273
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I am freaking out with reality tv this week: the World Series of Pop Culture, Big Brother, So You Think You Can Dance, Top Chef...


sj - Jul 08, 2007 5:08:50 pm PDT #566 of 23273
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

I changed my mind about not wanting anyone to win TNFNS. I really want Amy to win now.


Lee - Jul 08, 2007 6:26:46 pm PDT #567 of 23273
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Yeah, that was hysterical. What a fucking idiot.

Seriously.

I think Kail is overplaying her hand early on.


SailAweigh - Jul 08, 2007 7:40:57 pm PDT #568 of 23273
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

I stumbled across TNFNS, tonight, and I gotta agree, I like Amy best.


sumi - Jul 08, 2007 8:49:29 pm PDT #569 of 23273
Art Crawl!!!

sj, I totally agree. Amy was the best.

I was a bit surprised that they actually chose food knowledge over personality in deciding who went home.


Jesse - Jul 09, 2007 3:10:35 am PDT #570 of 23273
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Amy kicked so much ass last night -- and she would round out their set of winners.

I was a bit surprised that they actually chose food knowledge over personality in deciding who went home.

I was thinking about the "points of view," too, and don't they already have "entertaining on a budget" in a show? Although I guess that's the kind of thing you can never have too much of.... But still -- "food no way you can make yourself" is not a viable Food Network show.


Jessica - Jul 09, 2007 3:13:35 am PDT #571 of 23273
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

don't they already have "entertaining on a budget" in a show?

The vast majority of FN shows are some variation on this -- the only exceptions I can think of off the top of my head are Good Eats and Iron Chef. [edit: Oh, and the various eye candy travel shows, which are mainly about getting Giada into a bikini.) Everyone else is about impressing your guests without putting any effort/money into it.


Hil R. - Jul 09, 2007 3:16:05 am PDT #572 of 23273
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Emeril, Bobby Flay, and Barefoot Contessa too, I think.