Once upon a loooooooooooong time ago, MTV played music videos. Once upon a not as long time ago, MTV created the Real World, and it was an interesting show.
They started out in New York, with the “country white girl” clashing with the “urban black guy,” no doubt creating the formula that MTV’s writers eventually pumped with more steroids than Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire did their asses.
All the sudden everyone was gorgeous. The chicks came straight from dancing on a table in CollegeTown, USA to our televisions, as did “the extremely effeminate gay roommate,” or the “quick-tempered black male,” or the “backwoods white country bumpkin.” And then eventually the creators just got lazy and threw a bunch of alcohol in the rooms (i.e.: The Las Vegas cast).
In other words, MTV got greedy.
Well, on a mostly forgettable cast this season, the recent episode teaser presents a situation where a hook-up goes invariably wrong and a condom breaks. The girl thinks she might be pregnant. The guy thinks he might have to get married.
THESE ARE REAL LIFE SITUATIONS.
These are situations that people can’t fake, that mean something to viewers. No one needs to watch the drinking patterns of a 22-year-old blond who has been handed everything she’s ever wanted. No one needs to watch a douche bag wearing a trucker hat scream about how much Jag he can slam in a night. But watching two 23 year-olds convince themselves that they should or should not have a baby that they obviously didn’t plan for is gripping television, whether you want to admit it or not.
Why doesn’t MTV broadcast the story of seven strangers, picked to live in a house, who are all trying to succeed in their careers? Maybe seven recent college grads trying to make it? Those are the types of situations MTV wanted to broadcast when they created the Real World. Instead, they’ve settled on recreating the end credits of Benny Hill into a 23-minute show.
MEANWHILE….
The Hills continues to dribble on, about as authentic as what’s under head actress Heidi Montag’s shirt. We’re led to believe that the show is entirely real, even though Heidi faux-fiancé Spencer Pratt and tagalong Brody Jenner expressed a desire to stay on camera in order to up their collective profiles. Add to the fact that several reports have surfaced that both main heroine Lauren Conrad and Montag don’t actually do anything at their TV “jobs.”
Surprisingly, Jenner makes a move on Conrad after falling out of the limelight! Really?
And then during the last episode, Conrad somehow gets a chance to go to Paris for the summer – even though Editor Lisa Love wasn’t going to allow her the chance this year! Really?
Who said the writers are on strike? They seem to be dreaming up enough soap-opera level rubbish over at MTV headquarters.
1 Comment
December 12, 2007 at 4:14 pm
You don’t post anything for 2 months, then you come back with the Real World and the Hills. Really?
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