Reality Show Roundup -The So Bad its Good

And now the second part of the recap of this summer’s offerings of reality show goodness.   Before, I covered those shows I just found too ridiculously over the top and retarded to even be reality shows, such as So You Think You Can Dance.   Now shows like that only provide a real uselessness to our society.   But the shows I’m about to talk about are so overly the top bad that they serve an interesting function in our society.   A way of viewing almost the worst of the worst that thrive in this country.   Ladies and gentleman, I give you,

The So Bad It’s Good

1. Meghan Wants a Millionaire – If anybody caught the first episode of this show this past Sunday they know what I’m talking about.   This show really is about as bottom rung as reality shows can get.   And it’s only right it be on VH1, that great channel that has now basically morphed from music video provider to Holy Grail of trashy and useless reality programming.   In this show, millionaires, so they claim to be, vie for the affections of Meghan, a VH1 reality regular, by buying dates with her and basically what else happens to catch her eye.   It’s pretty sad but also almost completely addictive to watch.   Some of these millionaires are about as weird as they could possibly get.   Some including the overly hideous B-movie producer, the overly nervous guy with the creepy ass smile, the self professed king of internet porn paraphernalia, and the list could really go on and on.

2. Hell’s Kitchen – Now I will admit that this show is actually pretty good, albeit pretty simply plotted.   Basically two teams compete to beat the ultimate chef while getting their asses thoroughly chewed out by Chef Gordon Ramsey.   This would probably fall under the usually just bad category from the lame premise and title alone, but Ramsey is such a commanding force on this show that he’s too captivating to turn away from.   You really want these people to screw up just so he can turn red and go on a brilliantly bleeped tirade, and luckily for us these people never fail to deliver. It’s pretty much been the same since the very beginning and it’s really not worth changing.

3. NYC Prep – Now here’s a show if you’re not watching you definitely should be.   First off if you have any fascination with Gossip Girl you need to watch this because it’s Gossip Girl in real life!   You basically get a bunch of prep school teens who are super loaded and super douche bags.   They are all really just self-obsessed little brats and it’s so fun to watch their interactions with each other.   There’s nothing better than to see one of them not get their way and throw a huge tantrum because they always get their way, they’re rich, what do you expect?   There’s even been a huge backlash by viewers just completely condemning these kids because how terrible they are.   If that’s not worth watching then I don’t know what is.

So there it is, what we really want from our reality shows.   Not stupid events with commentators making stupid comments, ala Wipeout.   We want to see people yelled at and people who are jerks made a fool of.   That’s why I watch reality programming anyway.