As my friends know, I am a sucker for anything a teenage girl likes. Cellphones with QWERTY keypads for text messaging. Pop music. Music video games. TRL. The Hills. Oh reality television. And it's not even something like the Amazing Race. It's Lauren, that bitch Heidi, Audrina, and Whitney. It's the worst kind of reality television. It is the one with no purpose. There isn't a chance to see "real" people win million dollars for starving themselves on a deserted island. There isn't money on the line while traveling through dozens of countries confronting obstacles internally and externally. Hell, there isn't a record contract on the line designating you to being the next...Jordin Sparks? Bad example but you get the drift.
The Hills carries none of that. The Hills is about people from upper-middle to the rich class going about their lives. That's it. Here's the odd thing about the subject. They are celebrities. It is almost weird to type that word and have it relate to someone who has yet to finish their internship of about apparently 2 years (where's that in Detroit?). She came from a small town in Orange County. She dealt with drama over there to the point where coming to Los Angeles, no wonder she's a magnet for issues. It's work drama. No it's girl drama. Wait, it's boy drama. On paper this is probably the worst show on television. Yet here I am telling you that it's one of the most riveting things as well.
There are many questions on whether the show is scripted and how "real" it is. Let's face it, when is the last time you have seen a Real World on MTV? It's because the concept is dead. It is an experiment where the results have become unreliable. When you stick 7 or 8 strangers in a house, what are you going to get? 6 or 7 strangers wondering how to get themselves naked, drunk, or incompetent on television every single season. It got old and tired (although I love that only one of them was actually somewhat the voice of reason. They were the Jim in a highly inappropriate Office. If they looked at the camera with a judgmental look, the Real World would've been the best show on television). Bring on Laguna Beach, which naturally launched Lauren into the vocabulary of the US Weekly fans.
The situations never make sense to be honest and the decisions made by most of these girls are troubling to say the least. Obviously the Audrina playboy tryout pics this week helped my case. It also didn't help that she went out with Justin Bobby. Heidi chose Spencer. Spencer is a massive douchebag, so massive that Letterman referenced him. Friggin' David Letterman hates Spencer. Whitney makes few bad choices and obviously stands as the voice of reason most of the time. Which obviously leads to Lauren. Bad decision here, funny quip here, personal life collapsing there. It's interesting to watch this girl face adversity and regardless of whether she makes a dumb decision (not going to Paris for Jason) to a questionable decision (basically everything else) there seems to be a longing for an outcome. No matter how ridiculous their lives seen and how awful the people are (Spencer of course being the love child of the devil and the creepy naked old woman in the Shining), people can't help but find out what's in store for Lauren and her friends.
Now whether this success and attention is deserved or not, there seems to be an interest in this girl's life. It is a guilty pleasure in the purest sense of the word. Besides, where can I watch "meaningful reality tv", some show where they give away money? Where they build a house for families?....oh wait....
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