Anyone else far too enthralled with this series than they ought to be? Another train wreck of a show that succeeded in sucking me in to watching every damn minute.
I’ve been wrong pretty much every time I’ve tried to guess at an elimination, so I’ll probably be wrong again, but it looks like Jerry’s gonna pick Austen. Ugh. Big, dopey, extra tooth-lookin’, carved out of a big block of cream cheese and dressed up in white bread Austen. Not that Seth seems like that terrific a prize either, but at least he’s kind of entertaining.
Alias just told me that Austen is Gary Buseys attractive son. He’s everything that Jake Busey wants to be.
I had never watched this show until the marathon today. Came home from work and Alias was watching it. Now I’m hooked. It’s like crack. Dirty, dirty crack.
What a surprise. The best that Seth could come up with was “hot.” In all fairness, I’d have a hard time using anything but hot to describe Katie. He didn’t have to use it twice though.
I guess the three of us are the only ones who watched it.
I was shocked that she picked Seth. He had his moments, but for the most part, I just found him to be a total dick. I’m surprised that Anwar didn’t make it further. He would have been my choice, but between the Abercrombie model and the asshole, I don’t know who I would have chosen.
Also, I truly hope that the chocolate strawberry scene was staged. I’m embarrassed for Jerry and Rachel if wealth has spoiled them so much that they can’t use common sense to create a simple dessert.
I hated Anwar. I thought he was truly annoying. I actually liked Mauritzio the best, although we didn’t see his OCD so maybe that was too irritating for him to be allowed to stay.
Well, to be fair I did something similar with chocolate and strawberries. I decided to make some for my last boyfriend so I bought a big Hershey bar and broke it up and dropped it in a pot. It started out OK but then the chocolate started, like, seizing up or something. I did, however, know enough not to throw the strawberries in and stir them into the chocolate.
I’l third the chocolate thing. Granted, I was only 15, but when it started falling apart and smelling I still had to taste it.
Austen became way too competitive in the end. Of course, out of the two of them, I would have thrown my hands up in despair and just kept the money. Austen was boring and Seth was an asshole. By the third episode I wasnt rooting for anyone anymore, I was just praying that Seth would get eliminated.
This is the third reality show to suck me in… Im staying away from TV from now on.
Only the third? Hell, I think it might have just been the third today for me.
Well, no, actually that’s not true. I think the only other reality show I’m into at the moment is 70s House on MTV, and if I never saw another episode I wouldn’t care. But I was glued to the set for Stripsearch, and despite my intense loathing for Jonathon Antin I couldn’t tear myself away from Blow Out. Although in my defense I was rooting for him and his new product line to fail miserably.
Oh wait, I watched that new Kathy Griffin reality show today too. I am so ashamed.
More like the flaming train of doom from War of the Worlds. You don’t know where it came from. You don’t know what made it the way it is. You don’t know what is going to happen to it. You just know that it is bad and you can’t take your eyes off of it.
Meh. Surreal Life tries too hard. I also can’t get much into “celebrity” shows when I have no idea who one or more of the “celebrities” are (Caprice? Carey Hart?), I loathed one of the celebrities the first time around (Bronson Pinchot) or when the definition of “celebrity” is stretched to include the leavings of other reality shows (Omarosa). The only one worth watching is Janice “I’m an international superstar, damn you all!” Dickinson and I can see her bits on The Soup.
I love The Surreal Life because most of the celebrities are total has-beens, and have absolutely no idea. That’s scary, sad, and sometimes hilarious. Janice Dickinson’s going off about being all over every newspaper in the world for doing the burlesque show was just ridiculous. Most younger people nowadays have absolutely no idea who the hell she is!
Also, if she were the international superstar she claims to be, I think her “retard” remark would have gotten more press than her exposing a shoulder. Also, I was horrified to discover that she has children. Dear God!
As for Kept, there’s something classy about Jerry Hall. I’m not sure how she does it, but she can be on a VH1 reality show that isn’t much more than carefully disguised prostitution, and she can still keep her class and dignity. Personally, I think Jerry Hall is the person that Janice Dickinson desperately wishes she was. Jerry is the real deal. She doesn’t have to drop names, because you can see her hanging out with Pete Townsend and Yoko Ono with your own eyes on the show.
You’re not the only people who watched. Austen was a total snoozefest. He completely blew his date with Jerry, which was totally tailor-made for him. He was incapable of talking to anyone at the Whitbread function, even with Jerry’s introduction. And his hair looked so crunchy. While Seth was hardly refined or gentlemanly, he was at least himself throughout the whole thing. Unlike Anwar, who brought new definition to “smarmy,” and any number of the eliminated. Also, Anwar’s statement that he was too perfect, and didn’t have enough flaws to be Jerry’s kept man? Bullshit.
The best part about watching last night was seeing all the digs on Ricardo, especially when he goes, “I can’t help it if my parents are good-looking.” Man, does he suck.
That’s one thing I like about Kathy Griffin (although she may be pushing the conceit a little hard). She knows she’s close to the lowest form of celebrity (playwright’s wives of course being the lowest) and works it. As she said in an earlier comedy special, “Once you’ve done Celebrity Mole, there’s no going back.”
Class and dignity she may be able to keep, but her accent she can’t maintain to save her life. Every so often she’ll bust out some posh vowels but her innate Texas twang really makes them jar my ear.
Yeah, I think Ricardo got lost on his way to the Stripsearch casting call. The classic case of a guy who’s coasting through life on his looks. Which, don’t get me wrong, if I had his face and body I’d exploit them too. With the hope that I wouldn’t come off like a complete asshole while doing it. I keep waiting for my trash sources to turn up the inevitable naked pix of the Kept boys, but so far only Frank’s has surfaced.