Did anybody happen to catch this new reality show tonight?
A buncha shallow, unattractive, materialistic people.
Lizzie Grubman shoulda ran the lot of them over, then she should have run over herself.
Worst. Show. Ever.
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I was intrigued by it, simply because I couldn’t believe what assholes these people were. Especially that one guy with the oxygen bar. That guy was a major tool! He stirred negative emotions in me not normally brought on by someone on a television show.
Is this a new series? Or was it just a one-night special?
stv
Ugh, self-absorbed tool, at that. He made me sick.
Sadly, it’s a series.
I loved it because I kept thinking “these are people I know ten years from now.” Especially the oxygen bar guy, what a Jewish American Prince. I wonder if he has any real friends. And I’m rooting so hard for that girl from Oregon (“Oregon? Is that near Iowa?”). I hope she steals a guy right under from that girl who has the plan, which apparently involves crappy flirting. It continues tomorrow I think. I missed part of it for the NBA Finals thoughh, anyone remember what happened from 10:15-10:45? I managed to tune back in just in time to see Lizzie Grubman before she hit all those people.
Well, they showed a party at the Hiltons’ estate; a birthday party for Christy Brinkley’s daughter; a book party for Candace Bushnell; some illegal alien Irish waitresses looking for an apartment…
It was all…
just
so
disturbing.
When was it on? I was busy watchin the Lakers win the NBA West and the Tony Awards. Anything that bills itself as “reality” programming is likely to be so much drek anyway.
Salon has a good article about The Hamptons.
And apparently, it’s a two-part mini-reality-series.
stv
My wife missed the part with Josh (?) the oxygen entrepreneur and I couldn’t accurately and completely describe what a smarmy ass-wipe he is. I tried, but words escaped me.
Christie Brinkley’s birthday party for her little girl was fairly normal, except what kind of stupid name is “Sailor” for a child, especially for a girl? If she’s Christie’s husband’s (Peter Cook) child, is she “Sailor Cook” and doesn’t that sound like a job description in the Merchant Marine?
The “Hamptons” magazine editor didn’t seem too smarmy or ass-wipey since O2 Josh is being profiled on this show, but he can’t be real can he? Who the hell would want Craig Kilborne in their house, anyway?
Did the Hilton girl say they had 30 people staying at their house for the summer?!? I can’t imagine - - I start getting agitated when my wife’s family stays for longer than 3 hours at our house.
Can you believe the investment bankers and lawyers would want to live 5 beds per room just to be able to “summer in the Hamptons” and stand “on-line” for every bar and restaurant waiting for a butt-ugly, gap-toothed PR publicist to back over you?
The gay, black designer and the writer/artist(?) with the sick dog seemed to be the most normal of the summer people, but it is clearly the townies - the columnist/farmer, the fisherman, the waitresses, the cop - who are the people who deserve to be profiled.
Sure, I’d like to have topless girls in my hot tub, but I don’t think it is worth it if I have to go to the Hamptons.
It could be worst, it could be Sailor Moon!
I don’t watch ANY reality shows.
The cable was out and I only get two local channels without it. Since there was a basketball game on NBC, I had to watch The Farquing Hamptons.
Oh. my. god. Is this what network ‘reality TV’ is all about?
Thank the heavens the cable was restored by this morning. I can go back to watching real reality TV (i.e. The Discovery Channel, TLC, HGTV, etc.)
I think many of you are missing the point of the series(which, according to the Salon article I posted, is easy to do).
Yes, it’s to show a glimpse of life in one the U.S.'s richest areas, but in most respects, it is by no means meant to glorify the inhabitants of the Hamptons. Many of these people are assholes, and this series doesn’t try to hide that.
I think the show’s creator (Barbara Kopple) could have edited it, however, to make it funnier and make the assholish nature of these cats more obvious, but the series really doesn’t try to hide the nature of these people. Russell Simmon’s closing line was the best (Paraphrasing): “All right-- now you got your footage of black people in the Hamptons.”
The closing of show number one, is a perfect example of the idiocy of these people. From the Salon artcle:
I don’t care what y’all say, I’m still intrigued with this show! And I can’t wait for part 2. I’m looking forward to seeing how these people react to the terrorism on Sept. 11.
stv
That woman talking to Gaines is a local newswoman, Lynne White.
It didn’t seem as if Gaines wanted to talk about the Grubman much.
“Well, I heard that all those people came running out of the place when they heard trouble. It’s those sort that go there—”
“Oh, look at the pretty fireworks.”
It is a documentary. I don’t know when documentaries started being called reality TV, but I guess that’s pretty accurate.
The show should be titled The Hamptons: Rich boors who think that they are better than you.
I don’t know were ABC gets off calling this a “Reality” show, because, thankfully, this is the furthest thing from reality for 99.8% of the population.
Just a heads up: Part 2 of this disaster is on tonight, and you know I’ll be a-watchin’!
hairy eyeball
I’m kind of enjoying watching the lives of the (foreign) waitresses in town for the summer.
It is just a people-watching show, and while I occasionally like that, it’s not everyone’s cuppa tea.
I got better things to do than watch stupid rich jerks be stupid rich jerks. Like gouge out my eyes with flaming daggers…
Ugh. You couldn’t pay me enough to spend five minutes with those idiots.