So tonight we’re in for a second week of the lousy, spoiled-brat claptrap called NYC Prep, and I say that as someone who does not by any means dislike other Bravo reality shows: give me a Top Chef Masters or a Housewives of New Jersey or an episode of the surprisingly-refreshed new season of Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List and I’m happy for the minutes of pleasure they afford.
But NYC Prep, with its privileged nobodies flaunting their self-perceived hotness and their my-perceived inarticulateness, is actively annoying. Which leads me to ask: What’s the worst reality-TV on the air this summer?
I’m not asking about junk versus quality. I’m asking, what are the series that strike you as pointlessly ignorant, arrogant, and assaultive to your senses? Is it the dumb, recycled concept that is ABC’s The Superstars? Was it NBC’s I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here? How about E!’s screechy Kendra? Or is it CBS’ soon-to-premiere Big Brother? (Confession: I always get hooked on this, for a few weeks at the very least.) And is anyone besides me bored with, and just ignoring, the TV dance competitions?
Time to rage out or confess; thanks.
When I saw the previews for Spoiled Brat Patrol–er–NYC Prep, I think my disdain for these “reality” shows (whose reality? Not anyone’s that I know…)hit its apex. To see one of these unattractive little s*its spit on a city bus as it drove by was beyond nauseating. Please, Bravo. Enough with this “how the other half lives” garbage.
As for me, I’ll have none of the other ones, either.
Enough already with all the housewives….
SYTYCD is not just another dance show. It is high quality.
I’ll agree with you on everything except SYTYCD. A great show with talented competitors. (I am not a Dancing with the Stars, fan, either.)
I watched the first episode, and they all look alittle off, like they might be slightly inbred, I’m not sure just a hunch
one girl looks odd, her eyes are to close together. they basically reminded me of Gossip girl but much less better looking. I rather stick to watching Gossip Girl then kids are staring at a future eposide of INTERVENTION
i totally agree with you.
This show makes me want to get a hysterectomy. I don’t remember pretending to be 30 when I was 16.
I, for some reason, watched an episode of Kathy Griffith’s show. I think a lobotomy would have done less damage to my brain.
Considering I haven’t touched a reality TV show in three years since Americal Idol started putting me to sleep (literally, it was my naptime), they all seem particularly ridiculous to me. Sure, Dance Your Ass Off sounds like a great way to lose weight, but do I want to watch you do it? Not really.
Wow – something topped “My Super Sweet 16″…
NYC Prep isn’t the worst, it’s just BORING! Even my teenage daughters find all the teens on this dull and unintersting. (Glad someone else noticed the girl with the eyes to close together…)Bravo’s new show Miami Social has potential to be a a great trainwreck like the Housewives of NJ and Atlanta. As for Superstars, I didn’t recongize one person in the promos, so what kind of superstar can they be. It like the Dancing with the C-list Stars. Give me Project Runway and Top Chef anyday. Now those are decent shows.
I think K8 is right. They’re all odd looking. I don’t want to be mean to children, but, really, their parents should, ah, fix stuff for them. Who enjoys watching plain, smug adolescents without any ability to take care of themselves pretend they’re independent? Without their parents’ staffs, forget it. Not everyone can be Paris Hilton who is as pretty as money can buy, and comes from a long line of alchoholics and wife beaters. Ahhh, money, glad I don’t have to worry about having too much.
This show is tragic. The fact that any parent would allow their child to participate in such exploitive crap is an outrage, and the fact that everyone on this site is disparaging vulnerable teenagers’ awkward looks is equally outrageous. These kids are victims (horrible, smug little victims).
This is so not how ‘the other half lives’. This is how a miniscule percentage of our population live. Bravo dive into your inner Jacob Riis and come up with something better than this! Why would people want to watch stupidity in their spare time when we have to deal with it everyday!
The show is so lame. And Jessie is probably the ugliest teenager on the planet. What’s the point of this?
I agree with you. How can she be so ugly and think so highly of herself? I’m surprised with all her money she hasn’t gotten MASSIVE plastic surgery.