[girltrouble]

my hide just chaps at those couples who have sextuplets then exploit them for all they are worth. i practically eat my hat when i see them on the today show or whatever getting sponsors etc. it's a personal pet peeve, i just think of all the resources they swallow up, and people send them all this free stuff. it's just irresponsible. i don't mean to put down your show, snow, it just makes my blood boil...


i agree bunny i love toni colette, i had the biggest crush on her in muriel's wedding. i was hoping the show would be good, although i was curious about the diablo cody writing..... :/

[bunnyb]

bunnyb, I watched the first two episodes of United States of Tara, and so far I don't really like it. The son is hilarious though. I'm going to give it a few more episodes.

That's disappointing to read. I haven't watched it yet but became excited when heard who the leads were. I'll still give it a go.

[ketto]

I don't really get the appeal of shows like Jon and Kate +8 either. I saw a bit of one where the mom was talking about how the kids have the camera's in their home all the time since they were 2. That seems pretty crazy to me. I wonder what they'll all think of it in a few years when they reach their teens.

[girltrouble]

lol... i'll watch rock of love bus, but i draw the line at jon & kate + 8. that show, and the other big family show makes my blood boil, and to paraphase rose, "it makes me reeeeeeeallllly stabby."

[snow white]

oh man, i just can't bring myself to watch rock of love bus. where do they find those girls??? it's like a bus full of daisy delahoya's. isn't one enough?

anyone watch john and kate plus 8? i love that show, it's kinda like fish tank but with little kids. like, meditative. i just watched the one where they posed for the cover of "good housekeeping" for the purpose of (according to kate) "to raise awareness about our family". um, why? i really don't even know what kind of family would invite national tv into their homes but to each their own i guess. anyone else wonder about this?

[girltrouble]

*snickers* god, kitty, i need someone like that around my place full time. rock of love bus? are you kidding me? i need to swear off.

[kittenb]

I must confess to watching half an hour of Momma's Boys. I was both repelled and fascinated. And then the remote was taken away from me on the grounds that I clearly could not be trusted with it that night.

[designermedusa]

bunnyb, I watched the first two episodes of United States of Tara, and so far I don't really like it. The son is hilarious though. I'm going to give it a few more episodes.

[bunnyb]

Is anybody watching United States of Tara with Toni Collette and John Corbett?

[girltrouble]

oh same here ketto. i totally had a crush on the nerd girl. but yeah i was uninterested till they had the racist thing come in on mama's boy and then i could not change the channel, move, or do anything but try in vain to pick my chin off the floor. that woman was a monster.

[hiddenpoet]

roseviolet i've been watching top chef from season one so here's my take on it.
there has been the 'villain" character in the first two seasons. the Tiffany from one was a bitch everyone wanted to see go down, Marcel from two was obviously hated by his competitors and Hung from three was seen by the viewers as arrogant though not a villain, and Lisa was someone who was too negative to like. this season there are simply several very annoying characters. the editing is also to blame here. the first four episodes were all about Adrianne. (sp?)
the talent has dropped significantly through the seasons while the titles and background experience gets more and more distinguished. the winner of season one Harold has been the only winner to open his own restaurant. most of the competitors in this season already have thier own place. what's there to really look forward to?
the innovation of food has fled the kitchen - new american is the only style in this season. boring!
things that past competitors were eliminated for are okay as seasons go on. i remember that richard guy my partner and his best friend were rooting for be excused for the failures his leadership caused and remain to compete in the final but in the seasons before that others in charge as the leader were eliminated due for the exact same mistakes.
it's just not as much about the food anymore i suppose is the real problem.

[ketto]

I always thought Bravo in the states was just the American version of Bravo in Canada...but it sounds like they're totally different.

I hate to admit it, but I totally got sucked into the first episode of Mama's Boys. I found it horrifyingly interesting because they had such a wide array of women (although all still gorgeous except for one nerd...who was still very attractive IMO) and a racist mother. It was like watching a horrible car wreck.

[snow white]

I just wanted to pop in because of something that I found quite amusing. I am watching the Duggar wedding special on TLC (they're the family with 18 kids!) and then it goes to commercial and says "Sponsored by Plan B". How fitting.

that just made my day! lol the first time i saw a preveiw for the dugger wedding that's all i talked about for the rest of the day. do ppl like these really exsist? and surprisingly, even though the future daughter in law dugger is, i suppose, the patron saint of virginal, she oddly enough looks like a trailer park skank to me. am i alone here? vaguely springer-esk.

I also like real housewives of nyc better too. those women would run right over the oc'ers. i hope they don't renew the atlanta one, that was a blur of a catfight. it kinda reinforced the sterotype that all black women are overly aggressive and antagonistic, but that's just my opinion... i didn't get that show. well, to be fair, oc reinforces the sterotype that all LA women are blonde bimbos, so there ya go.

[roseviolet]

CCGirl, that is hilarious!!!!!

My cable system finally got Bravo at the beginning of the year, so I'm catching up a bit on the shows there just to see what all the fuss is about. The only show I find at all appealing is Top Chef. Everyone keeps saying this season is crap, so I feel I've really missed out by missing the past seasons. Is there a particular season that is considered the very best? Maybe even good enough to watch again? You know, like Season 2 of Project Runway?

[designermedusa]

I am looking forward to the the second season of Housewives NYC, but everytime I watch the OC one it annoys me. The new housewife that competes with her children for clothes is really sad, you should not be wearing the same tight, skimpy clothes that your teenage daughters are wearing. I couldn't even watch the show where Gretchen got really drunk, I didn't want to see Tamara's son take advantage of her. Nasty. I couldn't even watch a full episode of the Housewives Atlanta, it was bad. One of the housewives spelled cat incorrectly. WTF?

I started watching Secret Diary of a Call Girl season one on demand, and then season two just started. I really find it entertaining.

[candycane_girl]

I just wanted to pop in because of something that I found quite amusing. I am watching the Duggar wedding special on TLC (they're the family with 18 kids!) and then it goes to commercial and says "Sponsored by Plan B". How fitting.

[stargazer]

dude, that guy's place was a filthy. i pay attention to those things on a date. but, that argument is probably better for another thread. i don't think she is being anymore shallow than these men using her services are. i think she calls them on their shit. i like her approach which is part of her appeal to me.

[thirtiesgirl]

is anyone hooked on the millionaire matchmaker? i got hooked in. remember busties, bravo is my crack.

OMG, I love/hate this show! Is she not the most shallow B on the planet?? Last season, she told a millionaire with a perfectly good pad in Pasadena that he couldn't bring women there simply because it was in a 'scary' part of town (according to her). Please! Now, admittedly, I *did* agree with her assessment that it looked a little immature for the guy to still be living with his college roommates. He'd bought the place with his roommates in mind, so they could have a place to stay while they got their lives in order after college, which is a very nice gesture. But they were all a few years past college and it's obvious some of them were not making any strides to take a more adult role in life. Unless I'm in college myself (which I'm not; I graduated 15 years ago), I wouldn't want a guy to bring me to his house only to find his college roommates living there. ...But when it comes to looks, how a guy dresses, where he chooses to live and the car he chooses to drive, the matchmaker woman has no more depth than a wading pool. And telling the women she sets up on dates with the millionaires that they "don't look sexy" when they wear their hair up is just ridiculous. Apparently in her mind, sexy = the homogenized, airbrushed women on the cover of Cosmo and Maxim. Yeah.

[girltrouble]

uh... shelia E, george clinton and taylor dayne on this season of gone country? i am soooooo hooked before the first episode. and sheila e is such a sweet heart.

[stargazer]

eyelet, yeah, i've gotten hooked in the real housewives series too. feel free to gossip here with me. i think gretchen is way smarter than people give her credit. i mean, why would she take advice from 2 women (jenna and vicki) who were/are in dysfunctional relationships. tamara is just evil and to allow her son to take advantage of a friend...not cool. i am actually excited for the ny version of this show. i enjoyed it more than the oc version.

is anyone hooked on the millionaire matchmaker? i got hooked in. remember busties, bravo is my crack.