The real thing

Lately, I've been glued to the reality show on TV … the shows that I watched were the one showed on MTV/Channel V. Don’t really like those on Indonesian TV where they exploit giving out easy money to the needy or the sort of show like Playboy Kabel/H2C and their like. Neither those stupid American dream show like Joe Millionaire, Race to the Altar, The Scholar, The Apprentice, etc.

If I can have favorites among the reality TV show they would be America’s Next Top Model and The Hills. Nothing special about these two shows, America’s Next Top Model which as quoted from their site, follows group of young women as they try to prove they have what it takes to make it in the high-stress, high-stakes world of modeling. The show is frontier by Victoria’s Secret model Tyra Banks. According to R the show is about generating a Tyra Bank little mini-me. However shallow the show might looked like, am definitely hooked! Currently Channel V is running their 5^th Season, which became more and more intense as lesser people left in the house, I think this week was their 6^th cut. The juicy part is, they show all the catfight/backstabbing/gossiping/model stupidity on the show. Its ridiculously entertaining…

The Hills on the other hand just a plain reality TV show with no cut or elimination. Its just like a typical drama series like The OC/One Tree Hill/Life As We Know It, except this one is the real thing! The story revolves around 2 housemates livin in LA - Lauren & Heidi. There are 2 other casts, but by looking at the shows they are what the drama series called supporting role – Audrina & Whitney. I love Lauren, she works as intern in Teen Vogue surrounded with nice clothes while juggling with her college and LA social life. What I particularly love about her is the determination of doing her college as good as she can be although she has many things to do with her job. Still … she has an extraordinary typical LA social life. Whereas Heidi is very different from her, I see her as rather shallow. She thought that life doesn’t start at the bottom; you just end up at the top without any effort at all. As soon as she thought she got her dream job, she just quit her college. I remember one time she just skip class because she couldn’t find the room and could not be bothered showing up late and she ended up playing solitaire on her laptop … how convenient?

Two other show that might worth checking is Laguna Beach which claimed to be the real Orange County, well its kinda like The OC in some ways. Another one would be 8^th & Ocean that tells about the life of models in Miami (if I remember it correctly).