I go back and forth with my opinions of Adam Lambert. Sometimes I think I understand who he is, and sometimes I don't think we'll ever know who the real Adam really is. The more and more I see, I keep thinking it'll clear it all up for me, but ...
After having the following conversation with some friends after the American Idol results show tonight, I decided to turn it into a post. There are two necessary ingredients to being a winner, whether it's the winner of a reality show, the winner of a poker game, or the winner of ...
This is the final chance to win a Who Wants to Be a Millionaire giveaway. Reality Shack has been excited to offer you three gift pack giveaways to coincide with Sweeps Month promotions. The celebrities seem to be having a lot of fun, and Millionaire is making sure the fans ...
ABC's latest Bachelor appears almost perfect on paper. He's cute enough. He's a Navy Lieutenant, he's a doctor, a humanitarian, a former Sunday school teacher, and he's an Iron Man triathelete. He's also sensitive. This past week we saw him attend to an injured Bevin, even accompanying her to the ...
That’s what we had for the Finale – for the first time ever, the Final Five were of the same gender, and in this case, all women. As we watch the opening season in review, it is pretty amazing when you recall the early victories by the men and the women begging the guys for an ember for their fire. We can now go back and map out the root of the men’s demise and the women’s rise – the Evil Queen. It was Colton’s [...]
If Alicia is the Queen of the Social Game, then I am the Queen of Hungary. And I don’t think Hungary has a queen. And I am not a woman. I am amazed by how many people this season have thought they were in control of the action. It is interesting how things have gone this season, and when I say interesting I don’t mean that in the sense of good television. Interesting to see the levels of delusion people have in their lives. [...]
Now THAT, is how you blindside someone. Instantly, this goes into the Top 5 of most incredible blindsides in the history of the show. Joining Eduardo, Ozzy, James, and a handful of others as some seriously awesome blindsides. What made this one so perfect is not only that she didn’t see it coming, but she was openly giddy about the imminent blindsiding of someone else. It makes it ever so sweeter to see someone get some comeuppance when they are taking too much pleasure in [...]
When you have a season such as this one where the boot order is fairly certain, where one alliance or one player is so utterly dominating, you desperately cling to whatever you can find to entertain before show drama can develop. For me, this episode provided a bunch of elements of entertainment. They can be summed up rather easily. Chelsea spreading oil all over her body, and multiple people making really, really dumb decisions. As soon as Troyzan lost the immunity challenge – done in [...]
It’s Kim’s world, and we’re just watching her dominate it. This episode was all about Troyzan and his efforts to get back in the game – and it was interesting to watch him do smart and dumb things at the same time – but the underlying theme remains this…Kim is TOTALLY dominating this season. The best part of it is – I really don’t think the other women even understand how much she is dominating. But this was Troyzan’s episode from start to finish – [...]
Um, all I really have to say is, check out last week’s column because it applies. In fact, I think I can probably just copy and paste until May with the same columns. Kim is rocking it. She’s like a human being outwitting a collection of raccoons. Unless the raccoons suddenly get their hands on the secret Planet of the Apes formula during a reward challenge, Kim is going to breeze to a new tax bracket. But I guess I should probably talk about this [...]
To quote Saruman, a new power is rising, it’s victory is at hand. And her name is Kim. To be honest, it looked like the Evil Queen was going to be the one person from this season to go down in the Survivor Hall of Fame. Not only was he a schemer, but he was batsh*t crazy. That’s Hantz-level Hall of Fame. But he was consumed from the inside by evil. So, what happened? Very quietly, Kim snuck up on us. While all of the [...]
I have been trying to motivate myself to write this week’s column – and have been failing miserably. I was so uninspired to write about it that I decided to read The Hunger Games on Wednesday evening, finishing it about 24 hours later. (Surprisingly better than I ever expected) It was one of the worst episodes of Survivor, probably since the underwhelming season of Nicaragua. I worry about this season now. It was dominated in the first six episodes by Hurricane Colton. The vast majority [...]
I am not big on the whole karma thing on reality shows – I don’t believe the Amazing Race Gods punish teams for Yielding or U-Turning other teams, for example. However, it is hard to disagree that the Survivor Gods wrought some serious karmic vengeance this week – if you spew bile, we’ll mess with your innards. That’s exactly what happened – we had ourselves a medical evacuation this week. No immunity challenge – that will likely become next week’s reward challenge, as next week’s [...]
Is it me, or is this one of the oddest Survivor seasons in recent memory? Not a bad Survivor season, in fact, far from it. It’s been rather entertaining so far. I mean, just weird. I had so many wacky things and statements to talk about this week rather than actually discussing strategy, challenges, etc. We had aphasia, we had idols in crotches, we had more stupidity by the minute, etc. We had Probst smelling a but(t). It really had it all, except any drama [...]
