I have never liked reality shows, in fact I don't watch TV at all except when visiting friends. One of my pals and I got hooked on 'Make Me a Supermodel' because it has moments of outrageous hilarity (he and I share a mordant and caustic wit).
I couldn't begin to tell you what it is about watching 16 aspiring young people getting run through the mill, getting smeared in chocolate, flouncing down the catwalk in garbage bags and fright wigs etc. But I'm hooked. It's not true that all the models are dimwitted airheads. C.J., the beautiful blonde turned brunette by a singularly sadistic hair-stylist who calls herself Tabitha, was home-schooled, went to college at 15 and is majoring in physics. She was just too damned smart to cope with the situation and the other boys and girls ended up hating her guts. She was the tall poppy that got cut down early on.
It's like a soap-opera and the silly feuds are entertaining. What my friend and I enjoy are moments like the axing of the model named Karen. She had a bad week, poor thing. She was called a voodoo queen and scary and finally in the last moments of her despair was told by the awful Tabitha that 'to me you are totally forgettable.' !! That's pretty hard-life-lesson stuff and a bit over the top, but the modeling biz is brutal so best for Karen to get the message that she ain't up to it. Karen left the stage in tears and my friend burst into diabolical laughter. A wrist-slitting moment for the poor model.
We were entertained in Episode 6 with Amanda's giving head to a beer bottle in front of her 'amour' Gabriel, who was tossed off the show minutes later. Amanda burst into tears too. She's the resident slut but I'm rooting for her anyway, up to a point.
And they aren't all a bunch of anorexic skeletons either. In fact it seems that most of them eat too much, except Jordan who's skinny as a rail and she has been told to eat eat eat.
I admire the courage of these contestants who have to bare it all, practically, before millions and take the most withering criticism with aplomb. It is a great exercise in controlling the ego. I think all teenagers should have to watch this show and learn about what it means to be committed and disciplined,and rolling with the failures and not giving up; something that is sorely missing in their culture at the moment.
I look forward every week to catching up with the latest episode and have joined the show's blog to vote on the who the big three will be.
If you like 'American Idol' you'll probably like this circus as well.
I couldn't begin to tell you what it is about watching 16 aspiring young people getting run through the mill, getting smeared in chocolate, flouncing down the catwalk in garbage bags and fright wigs etc. But I'm hooked. It's not true that all the models are dimwitted airheads. C.J., the beautiful blonde turned brunette by a singularly sadistic hair-stylist who calls herself Tabitha, was home-schooled, went to college at 15 and is majoring in physics. She was just too damned smart to cope with the situation and the other boys and girls ended up hating her guts. She was the tall poppy that got cut down early on.
It's like a soap-opera and the silly feuds are entertaining. What my friend and I enjoy are moments like the axing of the model named Karen. She had a bad week, poor thing. She was called a voodoo queen and scary and finally in the last moments of her despair was told by the awful Tabitha that 'to me you are totally forgettable.' !! That's pretty hard-life-lesson stuff and a bit over the top, but the modeling biz is brutal so best for Karen to get the message that she ain't up to it. Karen left the stage in tears and my friend burst into diabolical laughter. A wrist-slitting moment for the poor model.
We were entertained in Episode 6 with Amanda's giving head to a beer bottle in front of her 'amour' Gabriel, who was tossed off the show minutes later. Amanda burst into tears too. She's the resident slut but I'm rooting for her anyway, up to a point.
And they aren't all a bunch of anorexic skeletons either. In fact it seems that most of them eat too much, except Jordan who's skinny as a rail and she has been told to eat eat eat.
I admire the courage of these contestants who have to bare it all, practically, before millions and take the most withering criticism with aplomb. It is a great exercise in controlling the ego. I think all teenagers should have to watch this show and learn about what it means to be committed and disciplined,and rolling with the failures and not giving up; something that is sorely missing in their culture at the moment.
I look forward every week to catching up with the latest episode and have joined the show's blog to vote on the who the big three will be.
If you like 'American Idol' you'll probably like this circus as well.