Friday, April 13, 2007

YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU'RE COMPETING FOR? A LITTLE BIT OF MONEY AND A FEW EXTRA WEEKS BEFORE YOU HAVE TO GO BACK TO PUNCHING A REGISTER AT ABERCROMBIE: Maggie reminded me -- before it's too stale I need to post about the most underrated show on television: Real World/Road Rules Challenge. I am irrationally excited about this, the third season of the Inferno (to go along with several seasons of the Duel, Battle of the Sexes, and just general Challenges). This is a show that gets it right -- well-constructed, well-staged, difficult, telegenic challenges (both of this week's tasks -- the dangling-untangling and the Donkey-Kong-esque ladder thing -- were great); great cast (I'm a big Derrick fan, I prefer Abe to his doppelganger Wes, Alton is a complete challenge destroyer, and I am fond of Susie, Tyrie, Cara, Tonya (if only for drama purposes), and the absence of Tina); reliably excellent drunken sex and violence to bookend the episodes.

As an example of how these kids and not-so-much kids (Timmy must be 40 years old by now) just get loopier and loopier, where previously it took at least a few episodes for Tina and Brad to get thrown out for punching people, this time sociopath CT did it -- totally unprovoked, except maybe by his own homophobia -- before the first challenge. Just great TV. Wish they made it in HD.

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