Reality TV

I love reality television. It has gotten out of hand and it seems like I'm the only asshole that doesn't have one right now. But these shows are either really engaging or really funny. Here are a few shows that I think are really good:

- The Contender - ESPN, its the second version of the first contender with sylverster stallone, very Rocky-esque shows the persistence and determination of almost, almost desperate men. Not to mention for some reason, even boxers with no game or money seem to have ridiculously hot wives and girlfriends.

- Two A DAys - MTV, about Hoover High school football, a national powerhouse. I like seeing how these high school kids deal with the pressures of big time football.

- Surreal Life - too funny, pretty much anything on E! is entertaining. I love the Simple Life 2.

The beauty about these shows is you can take any sort of premise and drop in a interesting personality and people will watch. The production costs are minimal, and its spontaneaous and unpredictable... to a certain degree.

People got sick of trying to relate characters they've seen before in scenarios that are boring with scripts that are predictable. That's SitComs, think about TV Dramas. Nowadays they have to be so outrageous that even though they're not believable we want to follow them. i.e. NipTuck, The OC, and it goes on.