If it wasn’t bad enough, this season I watched my first almost<\/i> reality show.<\/p>\n
Drawn Together<\/a>.<\/p>\n This is Comedy Central’s animated reality show. And last night’s had to be the best to date. I can only say, this… “Bleh<\/a>” \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n But last night… things got worse… very worse.<\/p>\n Hello. My name is Andrei and I am watching a reality show.<\/p>\n Sherwood Schwartz<\/a>, he who brought us The Brady Bunch<\/a> has returned to a classic.<\/p>\n Gilligan’s Island<\/a> not only lives again, but is a reality show.<\/p>\n Welcome to TBS’s “The Real Gilligan’s Island”<\/a><\/p>\n A nationwide search went off to find a skipper & first mate, a millionaire couple, a movie star, *ahem* and the rest. The guidelines were simple, you had to actually be the role and then on top of that, you had to sorta look the part.<\/p>\n They found not one set, but two. And then (and I have no idea why this was a surprise to the folks) the show marooned them on an island. The island (in an unannounced location, much like the Prisoner) has a layout strikingly similar to the original show. Huts were pre fashioned along with some ‘coco-technology’ innovated from the show.<\/p>\n The two sets in the early games were pitted against their match (professor vs professor) to complete a task, assisted by their team-mates to determine who the real one would be. (The real professor) The show did an excellent job of casting the roles (at least in my opinion for one team). Supermodel Rachel Hunter<\/a> is the “Ginger” for one of the teams.<\/p>\n The show also touches on such old age old debates as “Ginger vs. Marianne”. On the other hand.. it is a reality show. Complete with endurance races and personality squabbles (openly gay character vs. bigot) the show immediately and effectively manipulates the viewer to pick sides and preferences.<\/p>\n Contrived, but a fun throwback. I am so sadly hooked.<\/p>\nShare this:<\/h3>
![Bleh<\/a>” \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\nBut last night… things got worse… very worse.<\/p>\nHello. My name is Andrei and I am watching a reality show.<\/p>\nSherwood Schwartz<\/a>, he who brought us The Brady Bunch<\/a> has returned to a classic.<\/p>\nGilligan’s Island<\/a> not only lives again, but is a reality show.<\/p>\nWelcome to TBS’s “The Real Gilligan’s Island”<\/a><\/p>\nA nationwide search went off to find a skipper & first mate, a millionaire couple, a movie star, *ahem* and the rest. The guidelines were simple, you had to actually be the role and then on top of that, you had to sorta look the part.<\/p>\nThey found not one set, but two. And then (and I have no idea why this was a surprise to the folks) the show marooned them on an island. The island (in an unannounced location, much like the Prisoner) has a layout strikingly similar to the original show. Huts were pre fashioned along with some ‘coco-technology’ innovated from the show.<\/p>\nThe two sets in the early games were pitted against their match (professor vs professor) to complete a task, assisted by their team-mates to determine who the real one would be. (The real professor) The show did an excellent job of casting the roles (at least in my opinion for one team). Supermodel Rachel Hunter<\/a> is the “Ginger” for one of the teams.<\/p>\nThe show also touches on such old age old debates as “Ginger vs. Marianne”. On the other hand.. it is a reality show. Complete with endurance races and personality squabbles (openly gay character vs. bigot) the show immediately and effectively manipulates the viewer to pick sides and preferences.<\/p>\nContrived, but a fun throwback. I am so sadly hooked.<\/p>\nShare this:<\/h3><\/span>Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/span>Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/span>Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/span>Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If it wasn’t bad enough, this season I watched my first almost reality show. Drawn Together. This is Comedy Central’s animated reality show. And last night’s had to be the best to date. I can only say, this… “Bleh” \ud83d\ude42 But last night… things got worse… very worse. Hello. My name is Andrei and I […]<\/p>\nShare this:<\/h3><\/span>Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/span>Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/span>Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/span>Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1X6ba-lC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/216.218.248.155\/datastore\/8e\/61\/b\/8e6107c7b74ca1c98ec26d2c995da60b.jpg\"){kind=link}