summer braincandy
It’s summer and, despite my good intentions to catch up on my shows that fell by the wayside during the TV season (Gossip Girl! Greek!), I’ve instead just been watching completely ridiculous braincandy instead. :9
I’m really, really enjoying The Amazing Race: Australia (watch it on youtube), despite the fact that its host is so wooden that he makes Carson Daly look exciting and engaged. It has a lot of team archetypes familiar from the US version (the laid-back surfers; the yee-haw rednecks; the models who might not be such dumb blondes after all), alongside some enjoyable villains. It makes for good summer TV.
Confession time: I found Chris and Anastasia’s elimination really emotional. :x It was actually genuinely poignant that, for the first time, instead of screaming at Anastasia at the detour, Chris actually recognized that she was in pain, let go of his competitiveness, and treated her like a human being. Ahh, redemption arcs. <3
(Aaaand, next week, it looks like the teams are lugging gigantic crosses through Jerusalem. Stay classy, TAR!)
I’m embarrassed to admit that I’ve also been watching CMT’s Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders reality show (watch s2 on the CMT website). It’s genuinely terrimazing. There’s so much body-shaming and slut-shaming that it becomes completely impossible to take seriously.
One girl is cut from the team because she “looks like a stripper”. (Seriously!) Another girl is cut because she’s too fat (all of 100 pounds) and, in her exit interview, she says, “I guess I’ve just always had a curvier body...” And you expect her to finish, and the DCC need to realize that there’s more than one body type in the world. But instead she says, “And that’s something I’ll try and work on”. Note: Stripper and Curvy BOTH come back and re-audition, because... humiliation burns carbs?
I’m really, really enjoying The Amazing Race: Australia (watch it on youtube), despite the fact that its host is so wooden that he makes Carson Daly look exciting and engaged. It has a lot of team archetypes familiar from the US version (the laid-back surfers; the yee-haw rednecks; the models who might not be such dumb blondes after all), alongside some enjoyable villains. It makes for good summer TV.
Confession time: I found Chris and Anastasia’s elimination really emotional. :x It was actually genuinely poignant that, for the first time, instead of screaming at Anastasia at the detour, Chris actually recognized that she was in pain, let go of his competitiveness, and treated her like a human being. Ahh, redemption arcs. <3
(Aaaand, next week, it looks like the teams are lugging gigantic crosses through Jerusalem. Stay classy, TAR!)
I’m embarrassed to admit that I’ve also been watching CMT’s Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders reality show (watch s2 on the CMT website). It’s genuinely terrimazing. There’s so much body-shaming and slut-shaming that it becomes completely impossible to take seriously.
One girl is cut from the team because she “looks like a stripper”. (Seriously!) Another girl is cut because she’s too fat (all of 100 pounds) and, in her exit interview, she says, “I guess I’ve just always had a curvier body...” And you expect her to finish, and the DCC need to realize that there’s more than one body type in the world. But instead she says, “And that’s something I’ll try and work on”. Note: Stripper and Curvy BOTH come back and re-audition, because... humiliation burns carbs?