well it's fall, the end of summer shows and summer weather. we move on to fall tv and sweaters and boots and fighting off ragweed and seasonal depression.i was originially going to write about something else but i started watching episode 3 of glee and i couldn't resist.
back in the summer, i watched the premiere of glee and i loved it, couldn't wait for it to come back last week. after the disappointment of entourage and the last few episodes of true blood, i was really rooting for glee to restore my faith in campy television. while, it hasn't completely failed, i can feel it going down the slippery slope of another high school show, despite it's promise not to. they even mentioned their biggest problem themselves....cliches. i know it's a little too soon, but i'm not seeing many layers or much hope for them. all i see are stereotypes i've already seen before, just a conniving cheerleader, flamboyantly gay choir kid, fiesty big black girl, dumb jock, annoying choir girl. oh but that other football player is chasing cougars, original, wait i saw that in american pie. there is the pervy teacher (mean girls), the cunty wife pretending to pregnant(lindsay lohan's tv movie) and just too much unrequited love to handle. and the fact that the actor who plays finn is a mere four years younger then the teacher confirms the biggest cliche of grown ass men playing teenage boys. it feels like the writers are putting all their focus into the musical numbers and Mr. Schuester and leaving everyone else to sorta wallow in high school angst (blah).
variety warned that this would happen. BUT, i am not going to give up hope just yet. who knows, maybe the writers and producers are trying to weed out the bandwagon people, just like professors would try to scare people the first week into dropping out of class. i know that analogy doesn't make much sense for tv since its all about ads and dollars at the end of the day. but i really need to restore my faith in camp. if not all i will be left with is mad men, something i will write about soon.
now, moving on to america's next top model. this is a show i stopped watching regularly a long time ago. however, my mom loves the show and so i watch it with her, we bond over tyra's ridiculousness. but this petite model cycle is all sorts of wrong. first of all, the majority of these girls are just short knockoffs of other people that have been on top model. second, i know with reality tv they look for crazy but these shorties are boring crazy (except for that girl who was "in love with jesus"). oh bianca is a bitch, oh the redhead is awkward. whatever. finally, tyra has gone off the wall with this "smize" shit or however you try to spell it. it's like when they shrunk the models they increased tyra's ego and absurdity. my only hope is that it will get so bad my mom will stop watching and i wont have to dvr glee anymore.and if both go down the shitter, then...i don't even know.
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